{"id":311,"date":"2013-11-20T04:19:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T04:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myhusbandandkids.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2013-11-20T04:21:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T04:21:12","slug":"monster-mash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myhusbandandkids.com\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Monster Mash"},"content":{"rendered":"
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no chance of winning a bicycle, just more candy!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

When I posted the “Everyday is Halloween” blog, I left out an entire thing about our little Halloween party. \u00a0As I said in the other Halloween themed post, I love an excuse to eat candy and have fun. \u00a0When I was a kid, I especially loved Halloween parties and always looked forward to having parties for my kids and their friends. \u00a0The first party that I hosted (when Rachel was 3) \u00a0was pretty small – about 4 or 5 little girls from the neighborhood. \u00a0The following parties were much larger and more ambitious!<\/p>\n

I was concerned that the party last year might mark the end of our fun. Most of our friends would laugh at the idea of me giving up and not doing something just because it seemed impossible, but the steady march into mid-life, along with having baby no.2 and everything else was really starting to challenge my “can do” attitude. \u00a0Just when I was ready to secretly scrap this year’s festivities, Rachel started talking about making a “ghost zip-line” from the upstairs to the other side of the house… \u00a0Ok, so I guess she didn’t get the memo regarding how overwhelmed mommy was at the present moment.<\/p>\n

I was a little concerned about how everything would go, but overall, I think that it was fun. \u00a0A lot of kids came and it was nice to meet a lot of new friends from her class at school (and their parents)! \u00a0The kids were also treated to a hayride around the neighborhood by one of our awesome neighbors. \u00a0He sets up a hayride every year for a local daycare Fall festival and offered to take our party kids around the block!<\/p>\n

Here are a few shots of our party. \u00a0 Ok, so where’s mine and Bryan’s medal for throwing another Halloween party!<\/p>\n

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Rachel helping set up the kitchen decorations<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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These yummy treats were made at a local cupcake shop! They were like little drops of heaven!<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Food table number one. \u00a0Rachel made the little poster on the wall \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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food table with “flying ghosts” above – the zip-line was a little too much work for us …<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Flying ghosts – image 2!<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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“monster” pops \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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“Bubble, Bubble, Toil, and Trouble!” Yes – I did think of that myself!!! Haha, but I stole the idea of potion making using vinegar and baking soda from the internet!<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Rachel<\/a>

Rachel with one of the costume prize winners \ud83d\ude42<\/b><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I posted the “Everyday is Halloween” blog, I left out an entire thing about our little Halloween party. \u00a0As I said in the other Halloween themed post, I love an excuse to eat candy and have fun. \u00a0When I was a kid, I especially loved Halloween parties and always looked forward to having parties…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myhusbandandkids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myhusbandandkids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myhusbandandkids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myhusbandandkids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myhusbandandkids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.myhusbandandkids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/www.myhusbandandkids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myhusbandandkids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myhusbandandkids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myhusbandandkids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myhusbandandkids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}