Our Halloween festivities began this year with my Mom's Halloween party on October 24th. We needed to make sure that we had our costumes complete before the party, so I started planning what our costumes were going to be early.. by pinning family costumes on pinterest! We got out a few weeks before to buy some fabric from fabricland and got the rest of the costume materials the weekend before! We spent a total of about $25 for all 3 of our costumes! Gotta keep it frugal now with being on mat leave and all...
And by our little Logan's costume, you can probably guess the rest of the family costumes! Logan made a fantastic Bam Bam. I even made his little bam bam pants with orange fabric (and hot glued the black triangles on). We still haven't learned from previous years that use of a sewing machine would be an asset and I had sewed his little pants which took a couple hours, and Aleksy hand sewed his costume. Luckily this year it was pretty simple!
Family shot! This one was taken at the first Halloween party at my Moms. The rubbles! I lucked out with finding this dress for 7.99 at Talize in just the right colour (we started at Salvation Army thrift store but there was nothing.. I was a wee bit deterred). Actually Talize was amazing and my wig was only $3 and they actually had the Bam Bam stick for $2.99... best find ever!
Logan did really well at the party although the little high maintenance guy did require us to walk around patting his back... we just took turns. He started to get tired as the evening progressed but was fighting the tired so we ended up leaving about 11pm... not bad for lame new parents!
The festivities continued on Friday October 30th, which is when we had our celebrations of Aleksy's bday/Halloween. I knew it would be more of a challenge this year with having Logan to prepare the fun Halloween themed food that I usually do like barfing pumpkins, pumpkin shaped veggie trays etc. I made pulled pork on the Tuesday before the party and froze it to make Friday easier and then just served coleslaw and cheese, meat and crackers. But... on the Friday morning, Logan gave me a chance to bake this cake for Aleksy! He even gave me the chance in the afternoon to complete it with icing and sprinkles to make it a jack o lantern. Logan and I had gone out to bulk barn earlier in the week to get orange and black sprinkles to make the pumpkin!
When Colton first got to the party, he showed off his Moose costume... his doggy's name is Moose so he dressed up as his doggy! But then wanted it off immediately! So this is Colton after taking off his costume holding our Logan aka bam bam. Just the cutest!
Group shot! We got this picture before everyone started leaving and before our Bam Bam went to sleep! Costumes of this year were: Steph and Kenny as the Adams family, our Rachel as a vampire with some awesome make up, Nikki as a crazy cat lady and Jon Jon as a cat, Al as Old MacDonald and Steph, Colton and Chase as the animals on the farm (cow, dog and chicken), Cadence as a shark with Chels as a lifeguard and Warren as a shark attack victim, and Scarlett as yoda, Sam as princess laya and Zac as another star wars character (I don't know star wars and actually have never seen a star wars movie!).. ok hansolo.. aleksy just told me.
The party was a lot of fun and Logan slept like a champ! He went down at 9:30pm and woke up only at 1:30 and 5:30 to eat! We actually stayed up until 1:30am with Nikki and Jon Jon... everyone else left before 11pm! Our parties have evolved over time and now everyone has kiddos!
And then Halloween day was the final day of birthday/halloween celebrations where Aleksys opened his presents, had a visit from his brother then Aleksy carved our pumpkin (I did the easy sharpie face!). Every year we get way more kids than the previous year. Last year we had 25 kids and this yer we had 53! Most kiddos were between 6-7pm...
Our Logan was dressed for Halloween day in this outfit for the first part of the day, which was given to him by my friend Annette and he also was given a skeleton onesie from Aleksy's Mom, which he wore the second half of the day! It worked out so well since he peed on this Mummy shirt during a diaper change!). My Mom also got him a little halloween bib which he wore to catch some of his spit up through the day!
And we actually had almost just the right amount of candy to give 2 chocolate bars per child and we had about 10 leftover. We've eaten those now and now just need to get rid of the leftover cake in the fridge so I can get back on track to getting back to my pre-baby weight! I just can't say no when its in the house!
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