We did the Monster Mash

Our Monster Mash party was such fun last year that we just had to do it again! This year had the added benefit of Pinterest, which inspired some of the cute food (but also caused me to lose much sleep and curse the cute cake balls as I made my 80th icing eyeball)! Ah well... everything turned out great and it was worth every short night!

First, the food:

Monster Cake Balls (orange, as requested by my favorite monster)



Mummy hot dogs



Orange and purple themed snacks



Little monsters:

Cade (no costume yet because he wanted to wear his monster shirt), Caroline as Padme Admidala, and Davis as a Yell Leader



Kelly the Strawberry



Clark as Batman and his mom Ellen



Jaden as Spiderman, Garrett as Spiderman, and Cade as Luke Skywalker



Seth as a little Brek Shea (Brek is an awesome soccer player for FC Dallas and the son of one of our co-workers. This is one of the cutest costume ideas I have ever seen!)



Littlest Monsters: Landry as Chewbacca, Annalise as R2D2, and Millicent as an Ewok



We actually had 9 Star Wars characters at the party, but I didn't get pictures of everyone. All of this obsession is thanks to Caroline's Star Wars themed birthday party in March. Such a trendsetter!

Monster Fun:

Craziness on the trampoline! This was the biggest hit and I really think all of the kids would have stayed there the entire afternoon if we just threw the snacks in with them.



I hid little bats in the sand for the kids to find!



Cindy and Katy are busy mamas! Their families provided 6 out of the 9 Star Wars kids!



Monsters swing, slide, and cram in the fort! At one point, I counted 5 boys in the little fort under the slide. This did end in tears as one little monster's head got closed in the door, so we closed the fort after that (and in case you are wondering, that little monster was Cade! It is hard to have a squished head at your own party!)



Monsters play baseball, football, and golf!





Bobbing for apples (the kids were much better at it this year than last year, mostly because I forgot to take the stems off the apples!)



"Feed the Monster" bean bag toss



Monsters need some juice!



And the grand finale... the Monster Dash! The kids did not love their monster masks quite as much as I hoped they would, but they sure enjoyed racing around the cones!





We all had such a great time! We had 51 people total at the party, and it was wonderful to have each one of them celebrate an early Halloween with us. We were all definitely worn out by the end, even Holly!



Despite being completely exhausted, Chance and I took advantage of my parents being at our house, so we went out to dinner and to a Casting Crowns concert with our neighbors. It was really nice to spend some special time together, and it was especially good that the music was really loud to keep us awake :)