2 Halloween Parties 2010!

Disclosure: These pics posted SO OUT OF ORDER...sorry, too lazy to fix!

5th Annual College-Friend Halloween Party
So, Every year (for 5 years) I have hosted a Halloween Party with my friends from college and their spouses (& now there are kids too!). We had Pumpkin breadbowls and everyone brought some soup to share. (and we had YUMMY stuffed mushrooms). Then, after dinner we always carve pumpkins. Below are some pics from the night (I was bad with the camera and didn't get ANY pics of my friends).

I LOVE this little guy!

My pumpkin is the Owl and Branden's is the scary fire dude.

Chocolate trees for my Halloween Haunted Castle (pic comes later)

Owls pre-hair

LtoR: My cousin Amanda, My Aunt Ann, and my momma helped me start my cupcakes the night before the party!. Always so much fun to be able to the the Jensens

(notice there is no apostrophe in "Jensens"....nothing belongs to the Jensens...there's just more than one of them.......PLEASE notice since it's almost time for people to start handing out Christmas neighbor gifts....please do not write "Merry Christmas from the Wilson's"! (cringe) It drives me freaking crazy!!! THERE IS NO APOSTROPHE (I am reading a punctuation book written by me in my former life. She totally gets me....I'll have to blog about my extreme HATE for the incorrect use of apostrophes later)...Back to the parties........

1st Annual Work-Friend Halloween Party

So, I wanted to spread the Halloween Party love to my new co-workers (the ones that happen to be my friends)...only one problem....they all live in Davis county and some (I'm not naming names) refused to make the long drive to Eagle Mountain....so THANKS to the ECHOLS for leting us crash their house for the party! Same Party M.O. as the College-Friend party....pumpkin breadbowls (Thanks Lehi Bakery!) and then pumpkin carving!

RtoL: Bruce, Carter, Branden, JD, Spencer, Zak, and Erin
carving their pumpkins in Arron's basement

Cookies that Arron's one-armed-wife (that he lovingly has named "The One Armed Bandit") made for the party. She actually has 2 arms....but she had shoulder surgery this week (I know, you are thinking how nice of her to let us have a party at her house just days after shoulder surgery!)

Me in my "I kissed a ghoul and liked it shirt" from Wal-mart with my mini haunted castle (no time for doors and windows this time). I hate almost all things holiday...so the cupcakes and the shirt are all you are getting for me :)

Spencer & Zak (JD's boys) and Carter (Bruce & Mitzi's)

OK, so Carter has more energy than any 2 year old I have ever seen. His mom says that he "was born knowing how to dance." I know...you're thinking what a sterotype, problem is...this time it's true. This kid honestly dances while walking! Mitzi says 3 year-old hip hop classes are in his future. He was running around, dancing, break dancing on the floor, wrestling Zak and Spencer, rolling his arms 70s style, "raising the roof". And everytime the camera gets close to him......he hams it up big time. No one knew he was doing this until the flashes went off on the cameras....and of course....laughter ensued.

us :)

Can I just tell you how much I love Branden?? He is the best person! JD's boys needed help with their pumpkins (and spencer wanted to do 2 of them)...so Branden helped Zak carve his pumpkin while JD carved the coolest pumpkin of the night....a howling wolf on a white pumpkin.

The boys loved the haloween glasses I bought for their treat bags (thanks again to the One Armed Bandit who put the bags together).

One Armed Bandit (Miss Lisa Echols), Giggly Cheeks Gabers (Baby Gabe), and Daddy (Arron)

See, I told you the kids loved the glasses. Carter was convinced he needed to wear them while carving. You can;t tell in this pic, but when I brought the camera over by him, he sawed his knife back and forth as fast as he could while at the same time turning to look at me with extreme cheese smile. SUCH A HAM! Their pumpkin looked like it had a stroke because carter insisted on carving the mouth on one side :)

The whole gang. Carter seriously knows how to pose for a pic.