halloween dinner.

I really wanted to have a special Halloween dinner for my kids, but I knew that this week was already going to be really hectic with school parties and Cub activities, plus the Church Halloween party on Saturday, and we have Stake Conference on Sunday, so basically the best day to do it was yesterday. And to add more excitement/work to my day I decided to invite the Missionary’s as well.

The bad part about that… well they white washed our area (which means they brought in 2 brand new Missionary’s) So I didn’t know either of them, and they didn’t know us, at all. I really didn’t want them to think I was some crazy person having them over for dinner to some elaborate spooky dinner party on a random Wednesday night, so I decided to scale back my ideas a bit, but still do some fun food and table decor.

For drinks I wanted a unique beverage, so we had Mountain Dew, and to make it extra fun I added a yellow glow stick to make it eerie and glow like toxic waste.

(A fun idea would be to put a toxic waste sticker to go on the front of the your glass beaker)

The other beverage was this awesome Goblin Juice I found at the grocery store… but it tasted awful. So we didn’t drink it. But it sure looked cute!

Black and white dishes with silver charger plates, black dinner napkins and vampire teeth for each guest.

Blood red Jell-O with gummy spiders and worms.

 

My favorite part of the whole table…

My skeleton salad servers. I just about DIED when I saw these in the store. So, so adorable!!

For dessert we had vampire cupcakes, complete with bloody teeth marks.

The inside was filled with raspberry jam for a oozy surprise.

I hung some skeleton grim reapers in the back window.

And that’s about it. Nothing too fancy, but still fun for the kids and Mommy.

While all of this was going on, we had locked Grey into the living room to avoid any messes or destruction to the table… when I walked in and saw this…

He got to three of them before anyone noticed.

 

Then it was back to baby prison…

He was very excited about that as you can see.

Comments

[Amy]

Hi Rachel! I got them from Target. Not sure if you're in Canada or not, but if I see some more I can pick them up and send them to you, they were cheap, maybe $3...
Good luck!

[Karen Corbiell]

I LOVE that you had to photograph Grey with the cupcakes before you took them away! You are such a true scrapbooking Mom!! LOL Karen C. Strathmore, AB

[Rachel Berry]

Oh I love your whole presentation!!! Okay at what store did you find those awesome
skeleton salad servers??? I love them!!!

Thanks,
Rachel Berry

[Mom]

It looked really good and I am sure the missionarys were duly impressed and plus if they are from the States, they probably think we are all weird up here anyway....LOL
I laughed at Grey's antics in commandeering the cup cakes, but felt sad that he was put in "baby prison"...tell him Grandma is coming to set him free!!