We celebrated Aleksy's 26th birthday plus Halloween on Saturday night the 27th. This is our annual halloween/birthday tradition! We had about 15 people over, all our closest friends to celebrate... everyone in costume of course! Aleksy and I had our costumes planned about 3 weeks before the party... because it really is cheaper to make costumes then buy the bagged ones so we make our own with individually purchased items from the thrift store. I took off work the Friday before so I could prepare for the party by grocery shopping, lots of sewing, and some food prep (i.e. sandwich wraps, jello shooters).
Our costumes: curious george and the man with the yellow hat! I decided this year that with our "couples costume" that I get to be the "main character" this year since previous years, Aleksy was Batman (with Batman and Robin), and Scooby Doo (with Scooby doo and Daphne). These costumes took many hours of sewing the tail (which Aleksy did most of), ears, the tummy on my shirt, and Aleksys tie. We bought a black hat for Aleksy's costume and a bottle of yellow spray paint which still didn't fully make the hat yellow!
For Aleksys birthday cake, we had a friend make the cake. In September, we were at an engagement party for our friends and we saw her amazing work on that day that she did for the engagement party. She did an amazing job on Aleksy's cake: this is our new house all haunted up... There are graves on the left where the middle one is my grave and my little hand is popping out. On the right, that is Aleksy hiding under the leaves. The trees are made of grapevines, but otherwise everything was edible! In real life our subdivision will not have trees or fallen leaves :( One of the sacrifices of new subdivisions...
The cake was chocolate and cream cheese on the top and chocolate and peanut butter on the bottom... super tasty!
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Here's a group shot with some of our friends around the beginning of the evenings endeavors. We have the basketball team and their cheerleader (with jello shooters!), a pirate, curious Gearge and the bakers.... our friends who announced their pregnancy at the party! Steph is having a baby in April!! Also present at the party were a policeman, some zombies, salt & pepper, a devil, and some bunnies (aka some people who decided not to show up in costume but we made them find one!)
By request, I made chili for Aleksys birthday. To go with the chili, I figured i'd stick with the tex-mex theme and we had chili, 7 layer dip (with refried beans, taco seasoning, cream cheese, sour cream, salsa, lettuce, tomato and cheese), pinwheels (with cream cheese, ranch dressing package, celery, black olives, red peppers), a veggie tray, spicy hummus and corn chips. And for dessert, we had an awesome cake, and our bakers brought cinnamon buns... Mmmm food
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