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The Halloween Party was a Success!

I will try to show you the decorations, foods, and activities we did.  My camera was dying - sad me - so I didn't get a lot of good pictures taken, but you can get the idea.
This is the ceramic jack-o-lantern that my mom painted back when we were kids.  I remember it at our house each fall season.  So when she gave it to me I loved bringing it out each year.  I will turn it around so you don't see the face during the Thanksgiving season so we can enjoy it even longer.

          My BFF made us this dirt cake - yum!  And Mark added the bones.  :)  All the food was delicious!
This is a ghost made of a tomato plant thingy and white sheet!

 Instead of bobbing for apples, they were on a string and you had to "catch" them with your mouth - no hands!
We had a fire outside to hang around so we could keep warm.
A surprise for Trent - he just turned 17!  The cake was a fire breathing pokemon!
 We served cold orange punch or hot cider!
 One of our activities was a pie eating contest.  Yup - they ate the whole thing!  Mark ate a chocolate cream pie, Ashley, Nicole, and Vanessa ate a banana cream pie, and Trent attempted a vanilla cream pie.


Our menu for the night was: chili, chips with onion dip and spinach dip, cupcakes, witches fingers, dirtcake, cake pops, witches hats. Guess we were a little heavy on the sweets!

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