Halloween Party 2012

Late Sunday night, I was laying in bed and decided it would be fun to do a little Halloween party.  We had already bought pumpkins, but didn't have time to paint them over the weekend.  Plus after Halloween last year I had ordered a bunch of cheap Halloween stuff from Oriental Trading.  So I sent out an email to some friends for a last minute lunch & pumpkin painting that Wednesday.  A little on the last minute side of things, but we ended up having a great turn out (6 adults and 13 kids)...and lucky for us it was beautiful weather so we were able to do the painting outside and the kids could run wild.

Everything went awesome.  I made pizza (pumpkin, Frankenstein & normal), candy corn veggies (cauliflower, yellow peppers, carrots), hummus, Halloween trail mix and jello worms (which sadly I forgot to put out).  People also brought a couple things to add to the spread.

We ate, played, painted, glued, chatted and just plain had a good time.  I know sometimes I feel like I can't have many people over because our place is on the small side but it was awesome and much needed.   I love watching my kids have so much fun.  I love that we have friends from all over the place speaking many different languages, but being able to relax with English speakers is something I think every expat appreciates.

We had so much fun that neither of my kids got a nap.  At 5:50 I found Kherington in her bed. 

*I have a rule about not letting kids sleep between 4pm and 6pm because if they do they either think it's just a nap or don't go down very well at night so I woke her up and made her eat dinner, bath and get pj's on.