This will be our second Halloween in our new house, but last year we just didn't feel settled enough for a party. Well, this year we are more settled and planning our first Halloween party! I hope to make this an annual tradition that gets better with age. I'm really excited! I Love Halloween!
We have created invites and sent them out. The only one I have yet to get out is for Nicole & Tyler and that is because we CANNOT find their address! It is killing me. I'm not sure what I'm gonna do, but I'm gonna have to figure it out soon.
We went last night and bought a bunch of Halloween decorations because we didn't have many to start out with. So, I think we have our "starter" Halloween decorations now. I know that the decorations will grow over the years. I think that we will most likely make some decorations over the years also. I would like to make some this year, but I'm afraid we are starting to run short on time.
We have not yet gotten our costumes together and that is a tad more important than making additional decorations. Tony is going to be an Evil Priest and he ordered the main part of his costume online yesterday. I think mostly all he has left is just a few minor accesories. I however have not exactly nailed down what I'm gonna be. I am thinking either a Goth Vampire or a Fallen/Dark Angel. Either way it is almost the same costume. The big difference is that there were these Awesome black and burgandy wings at the party store that would make it the angel. I think I will likely go with that just because the wings were cool. AND then it would kind of go w/ Tony's costume.
So the other big order of business is food and entertainment. I have been looking in magazines and online for food ideas. There are a lot of really cool ideas out there. The only problem I'm running into so far is that a lot of the ideas are for sweets or finger foods. I want some of both of those, but we are starting the party around 4pm so we will need some substantial dinner food also. Entertainment is easier and harder at the same time ;-) The most basic and easy plan is to set out a variety of our multitude of board and card games to be played, preferably some of the group games we rarely play. Options include Pictionary, Beyond Balderdash, Cranium, Taboo, and various trivia games. We have about a hundred other games to choose from also, but those are the good group games. The other more difficult plan is to do some Halloween themed adult games. That has proven very difficult. The only thing we have so far is "Bobbing for Bottles" in which you bob for the little mini bottles of liquor. We are thinking it will be $1 or $2 per bob and whatever you "catch" you have to drink. (nothing else will cost, but those little bottles add up)
So, I'll update the plans as they come along. I'm hoping to come up with at least one more Halloweeny game to play.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
My busy weekend
Yesterday we went to a local market at Wesleyan College. It was small and mostly people were selling crafts. There were a few gourds and some flowers. I think it is a new market and they are only doing it once a month right now. I will try to go to it every so often to see what they have. There is another market that is downtown every Saturday, but we never seem to make it down there. We wandered around the market and then came on back home without buying anything.
After the market we spent all afternoon working on the house. We started at 11:30 and didn't finish until 5pm. We did break for lunch briefly. I swept the patio which was difficult because of all the ridges in between the "stones". I also cleaned everything off my bedroom floor, did several loads of laundry, and straightened/cleaned the spare bedroom w/ all the Christmas supplies in it. I never really got them back under control after last Christmas. My plan had been to buy rubbermaid type boxes and group everything all neatly... but it has yet to happen. Tony worked all day in our big game room downstairs. He had a lot of junk that needed to be sorted, cleaned, and organized. He now has nicely and neatly stacked 6 CPUs and 7 monitors that are old junkers various people have given him to work on/salvage. It is ridiculous!
After all the hard work, we were invited by two of Tony's friends to hit Red Lobster for the Endless Shrimp special. We do this every year with a varying sized group. I know better every year, but still end up getting it. I ate WAY too much, but was able to stop just short of the completely miserable point. ;-) It is always enjoyable to hang out with the guys though. We laughed and had a really good time. Good company is so valuable these days.
Today the plan was to have the in-laws over, but they canceled at the last minute. That is not like them, so it is forgivable. Then I thought I would hang out with my sisters because my youngest sis is in town for the day. But we all three got conned into helping my dad and grandma clean some junk out of her barn. So, I guess technically I did hang out with my sisters, and my mom and dad and grandma.... just not in the way I had imagined.
We also hit the store today to buy up some CFLs because Georgia is having a tax holiday for Energy Star items. Now we just have to pick our 16 most used lights (that aren't already CFL) and replace the bulbs in them. :-) But that can wait for another day.
After the market we spent all afternoon working on the house. We started at 11:30 and didn't finish until 5pm. We did break for lunch briefly. I swept the patio which was difficult because of all the ridges in between the "stones". I also cleaned everything off my bedroom floor, did several loads of laundry, and straightened/cleaned the spare bedroom w/ all the Christmas supplies in it. I never really got them back under control after last Christmas. My plan had been to buy rubbermaid type boxes and group everything all neatly... but it has yet to happen. Tony worked all day in our big game room downstairs. He had a lot of junk that needed to be sorted, cleaned, and organized. He now has nicely and neatly stacked 6 CPUs and 7 monitors that are old junkers various people have given him to work on/salvage. It is ridiculous!
After all the hard work, we were invited by two of Tony's friends to hit Red Lobster for the Endless Shrimp special. We do this every year with a varying sized group. I know better every year, but still end up getting it. I ate WAY too much, but was able to stop just short of the completely miserable point. ;-) It is always enjoyable to hang out with the guys though. We laughed and had a really good time. Good company is so valuable these days.
Today the plan was to have the in-laws over, but they canceled at the last minute. That is not like them, so it is forgivable. Then I thought I would hang out with my sisters because my youngest sis is in town for the day. But we all three got conned into helping my dad and grandma clean some junk out of her barn. So, I guess technically I did hang out with my sisters, and my mom and dad and grandma.... just not in the way I had imagined.
We also hit the store today to buy up some CFLs because Georgia is having a tax holiday for Energy Star items. Now we just have to pick our 16 most used lights (that aren't already CFL) and replace the bulbs in them. :-) But that can wait for another day.
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