Halloween 2012

For Halloween this year we went to my sisters house again. Last year and this year we decided not to hand out candy... but do something a little more different. Melissa & Bryan made Smore Popcorn... I don't really known the ingredients of it, well besides popcorn (haha) - but it was a huge hit both last year and this year! Alex & I saw this great thing on Pinterest with pudding and crushed up oreos in plastic cups that we wanted to make. Emphasis on wanted. After staying up until 1am drawing on about 120 cups (monster and pumpkin faces) I decided to try out the pudding... Well lets just say, one large box of Jello Vanilla Pudding didn't even fill up SIX cups half way! It was crazy. We bought 3 boxes thinking, "Oh that'll be plenty"... yeah, no. So we had to axe that idea pretty quickly because we wanted to save money - not waste it on a holiday we hardly like!

Our initial idea... FAIL.

On Wednesday morning I was browsing Pinterest for another idea that would still involve our cups... which limited out options to pretty much drinks. Which actually worked out great - the neighborhood loved it! So we made 2 batches of potion and served them up in our cups :)

What made this Halloween extra special? It was Noah's first Holiday! Alex & I went back and forth between what little man could be for Halloween - we had so many ideas. His hair just gave us so many options! However when it came down to it... We wanted to do a family Halloween theme with our costumes and on a low budget. And let me tell you, Halloween costumes are not cheap! It also doesn't help that we didn't decide until Monday while the Hurricane was hitting us that we decided - we would be the Potter family! My Mum came to the rescue once again and made scarfs in Gryffindor colors for Alex & Noah, I went to the dollar store and picked up some glasses (I took the lenses out) and viola! Costumes were complete :)

Noah as Harry Potter

Lily, Harry and James Potter! 

'Harry' and his Nimbus 2000