Sunday, October 5, 2014

Family Fun in Idaho

 We spent the past week in Idaho for the wedding of Sharolyn and Tyler. I will post about the wedding festivities later but here is all the fun we had on the other days.

One day we went up to meet the newest Peterson family member- baby Grace.
She is a lucky girl to have three older brothers that love her and will protect her.
 Most of the other days we spent with Derek and Amy and their girls. Paige loved playing with girls especially at Derek and Amy's house where there is so many girls things- dress up, dolls, barbies, and dance parties. Paige was Charlotte's constant shadow and during our drive home she asked to go see Charlotte and Lu many times.
On Thursday we watched the girls for the afternoon and Nate got to photograph the fun.
 I love this picture- Paige loves Charlotte so much!
 Then Friday we had a Halloween party with all of the kids. I had so much fun planning and preparing for the party. The party turned out so fun! Paige helped me pick out a pumpkin in the morning that we needed for the party. 
 I made this party favor for the kids to have when they went home. The goblin teeth are candy corn, the witches warts are chocolate chips, the monster scabs are Golden Grahams, and the ghost poop is marshmallows.
 The first activity was a spider run. Nate taped a white crepe paper spider web maze that the kids got to climb through.
 Then it was time for pin the face on the pumpkin. Each kid got a different piece of the face.
 Next was Halloween Bingo. I found this cute template on Pinterest and I love it and so did the kids.
The next activity was a Halloween treasure hunt that led them all throughout the house and their treasure at the end was ghost blow pops.
 Then they got to put together their own dinner. They each got to make their own mummy hot dog. I cut up crescent roll dough into strips and they each got to wrap their own hot dog to make the mummy.
 Then while I finished the last preparation for dinner everyone else went outside. All the kids got to pick a pumpkin from Grandma and Poppy's garden to take home to carve.
 Then of course there was a photo shoot.
 All the cousins on the Peterson side.
 Then they all got to draw pumpkin faces on an orange.
 Then it was time for the Halloween dinner.
The most fun thing to make which turned out pretty good were spider deviled eggs.
 The kids mummy dogs turned out great! And it helped me out that they made it themselves. :)
 Nate drew these awesome pumpkin faces on some applesauce cups.
 So here was the menu: Pumpkin hair fruit kabobs, spider eggs, haunted cheese (I was going to cut the cheese with cookie cutter but that didn't turn out but oh well), Frankenstein stew (cheeseburger soup), witches brew (soda with dry ice), goblin greens (salad), mummy hot dogs, and Halloween bread sticks ( couldn't think of a more creative name but as we were dishing up my mom said I should have called them coffins which I thought was a good idea).
 The kids loved the dry ice in the drink and so did creepy Uncle Nate. :)
Then after dinner was cleared all the kids got to make paper bag monster puppets.
 And the last activity was to decorate Halloween sugar cookies.
It was such a fun party and a great way to end our vacation to Idaho.

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