Halloween 2009

Halloween 2009. This was probably one of my most favourite Halloweens ever. I loved all the decorations, the costumes were fantastic and everyone had a great time!

Amie as a spider

Lachlan in his prize winning costume. he was very upset the year before because Amie had won. He came up with this idea all by himself!

Haylie trying to get some lollies off the decorations!

A hobbit and someone from Star Wars, I think. I've never really seen Star Wars but I remember being told that that is who he was!

All my potions and concoctions!

Haylie my little ghost buster. This was her first Halloween. The year before she was only a baby and slept through the whole night! I hardly saw her all night. She had such a great time running around and of course eating lots of lollies!

Jessie from Toy Story.

Caitlyn as a ballerina.

Lara Croft. Tomb Raider. I think! Looking fantastic after having Seth only a month before.

The Flintstones. Their car won for the best decorated trunk!

The Super Mario Brothers. Fantastic. They won for the couple and Jamie won her second best adult costume award!  They had the music (You know from the computer game) playing on their phones in their top pockets the whole night!

Casey. What can I say, it's not much of a costume!!

The Wally's! I loved this idea!

Seth at his very first Halloween party. I think he was dressed as a pirate!

Zombie prom king and queen!

Gross!

Those pinatas can be very hard to crack open. All the kids usually get a couple of turns!

Halloween 2008

Ok now we are getting a bit more serious. The competition was on and everyone wanted to get the award for the best costume! Our collection of Halloween decoration was slowly building up and every year we were trying to do something better to wow everyone!

Here is our very first cemetery, complete with bones!

Amie won this year for the best child's costume. She really did look very freaky. I took a very long shower to get all of the pink out of her hair!

Lachlan looking very scary!

Bob the builder, can we fix it, yes we can!

Indianna Jones!

Jamie as a firefighter. This was her first year of winning the best adult costume prize!

Me and my massive bowl of M&M's! Yum!!

Nathan and Aurelia about to enter under our giant spider web! A couple of people actually wouldn't enter through the front door because of the big spider web, complete with giant spiders!

Caitlyn as a ghost!

The Ramke's

Zoe as a kitty.

Transformers and pirates!

Buzz is his most popular costume ever.

Doesn't he look good as a girl!

Here are the kids getting ready to play the donut game!

Sorry Jess and Casey, but I would never let you operate on me!

Check in tomorrow for pictures from 2009! I hope your enjoying this trip down memory lane. Some of you have been their from the start and others have joined us along the way, but we have enjoyed seeing what you all come up with every year!

Halloween, a look back!

So it's only one month until our annual Halloween party. I hope that everyone is thinking about their costumes and planning on how to decorate their trunks! Our family is very excited about it. The kids change their minds constantly about 'who' they want to be for Halloween. Hopefully they can decide soon. Invites should be out in the next week or so!

Anyway, I thought it would be fun to take a trip down memory lane and see where it all began.

Our first party was in 2005. I don't actually have any pictures from the night. We weren't sure if people would get into it or not so we chose fairly safe costumes ourselves. I don't remember what Buzz was, but I remember being a hula girl!

Our next party was is 2006 and we went a bit more full on. Everyone looked great! Again I don't actually have a lot of pictures of the actual night. (If anyone does can you please comment to let me know and I'll work out a way to get them from you, thanks!)

Here are a few pictures from the night. We started out by playing the mummy game. You use toilet paper to wrap up your 'mummy', when the toilet paper breaks you have to hand the roll off to the next person in your team. Your team wins if you are the first to completely cover your 'mummy'. We haven't played this one for a while, maybe it's time to bring it back!

I think that's Melanie being wrapped up!

Look how little Lachlan is in this picture! I love it! Oh, I think that is Adam being the 'mummy' for this team!

Another favourite game is the donut game. John, dressed as the Phantom of the Opera, won the best costume award that year!

I love how Amie is helping her big brother so that he can win! Again she looks so little and she has no hair!

I just had a look for some pictures from 2007 but I couldn't find any! If you have any please let me know. Thanks.

Check in tomorrow, and the rest of the week, for more pictures. I know I have pictures for these years because I got smart and organised for someone to take them!

Caitlyn's Enchanted Garden Tea Party

Well, today was the day. Time to celebrate Caitlyn turning five. After all the hard work it was all worth it to see Caitlyn enjoying herself with her friends.

Be warned there are lots of pictures in this post, but I just couldn't choose which ones to include and which ones to keep out.

If you have any questions about any of the details just let me know.

Party favour bags filled with lollies, butterfly hair clips and fairy dust!

The Birthday Girl!

 The first activity to do, while everyone was arriving, was to decorate fairy wands!

Then it was time to get your nails painted! Thanks Jess!

Next it was time for some yummy lunch. This included vegemite sandwiches and jam sandwiches cut into flower and heart shapes, fruit, popcorn, cheese, kabana and crackers and zucchini slice cut into heart shapes.

Oh, and our 'tea' was pink fizzy!

The girls absolutely loved drinking out of tea cups. They even put their little pinkies in the air!

After lunch it was time for games. Caitlyn made sure that we played pass the parcel and musical statutes.

Then it was time for the birthday cake and some dessert!

For dessert we had snickerdoodle cookies, chocolate covered pretzels, fairy bread, oreo truffles, mini cupcakes and red jelly with cream!

Oh, we also had flower cupcakes as our Cake!

 All the girls had a wonderful time playing, dancing and eating yummy food together. Everything turned out beautifully. But the most important thing was that Caitlyn loved the whole thing. She was so excited all morning for her friends to arrive. She couldn't wait to put on her dress and open the door for each of her guests. 

She is a beautiful girl and I know everyone says it, but I can't believe that she is (soon to be) five. The time has passed by so quickly and I couldn't imagine her not being in our lives.

I love you Caitlyn! I hope you have a very Happy Birthday!