Happy Halloween!!

My little zombie wishes you a Happy Halloween!!

A Halloween surprise!

Maelie received a wonderful Halloween surprise from Samantha. (via Canada Post who tortured the packaging)

She made an AWESOME book that is perfect for Maelie's Halloween party pictures!





Also in the package were stickers and treats!!

Thanks Samantha!!

Maelie's 2nd Annual Halloween Party

Well after weeks and weeks of planning and days of prepping, Maelie's Halloween party is done and over with with much success!!

First off, we took the group picture right at the beginning since I know that later on, it gets more difficult to round them up and costume pieces are usually missing.

We started off with a few games. We had musical pumpkins (similar to musical chairs) except that the kids had to have one foot on one foam pumpkin and the other on another one. We took away 2 pumpkins every time the music stopped. Then we went ahead and had to try to find spiders in goo. The goo is basically just corn starch and water. Most kids tried it, but a few do not enjoy that texture, so they watched.



After this, I worked on supper which consisted of lots of snacking food, a veggie skeleton, eyes (meatballs), ghosts (mashed potatoes), worms (wieners cut in 6). Every child had a labeled water bottle and had access to juice. This made it easier as they never lost their drinks, and there were no spills anywhere since they all had lids.





Once the kids were done eating I let them play while I cleaned up the kitchen. There is nothing I hate more than a huge mess in the kitchen at the end of the party, so I try to get a lot of it out of the way.

We then got started on a Mummy game. I divided the kids in 4 teams and gave them each a toilet paper roll. The teams had to choose a mummy and wrappers. The wrappers had to try and cover up a mummy completely. They enjoy this game as well!





We then played a game of feeding the spider. Each child had a homemade bean bag (which is fine except when it opens up!... broom to the rescue!) They had to throw the bean bags between the hungry spiders legs. They enjoyed a bunch of turns at this game.



Next game... Guess what body parts! I had covered 6 items with a cloth and the kids had to touch what was in the bowl. Once they all had touched, we said what we thought if was out loud. We had a heart (stewed tomato), fingers (viennoise sausages), blood (ketchup with water), eyeballs (peeled grapes), intestines (long macaroni noodles), and by far my favorite... Poop! which was a giant tootsie roll rolled up into a pile.



Then... the moment they all were waiting for... the pinata! It took about 20 minutes to get it open! I tried to sneak a bit of help by ripping some parts, but the kids wanted none of that! They wanted to beat it up big time!



Once they found their candies and put them in the goodie bags....the dance party started. As they were dancing the parents arrived one after the other... and soon it was just our little family.





What a wonderful night! a GREAT group of kids who are welcome here anytime. Looking forward to the 3rd annual Halloween party next year! :)

Halloween get together

Yesterday, we had our first Hallowen get together of the season. When I have a party for Maelie, I tend to divide it in two: French and English. I find that it is too difficult to translate the party as we go along... and it's not always comfortable for those who don't understand.

So yesterday, I spent all day cleaning and baking. Our house is not always spotless, so I had to at least make it organized and presentable. I didn't have one minute to spare!

Once the kids arrived, they played a little and I finished preparing the supper. They sat down and ate worms, worm salad, ghosts, caramel apples, brains, bones, witch broomsticks, a veggie skeleton, etc! I liked the little assortment! I can't believe I forgot to take pictures of some of the items!!



After the meal, the kids played a little "search" game to get some prizes. They then got to decorate pumpkin cookies. The sky's the limit with their imagination!





Maelie got a little carried away with her imagination!



We did end up having a wonderful time with friends. Now I had to get up and start it all over again for tonight with Maelie's classmates!

Something for someone

Sneak peak....



no details. Shhhhhh....

Maelie's Haunted House

We got a haunted house kit a while back, and so today was the day....



Maelie started slowly....



Then she managed to cover the house pretty good. She didn't want to put too much icing on the sides because she likes her g9ingerbread plain.



"let me sneak a taste while no one is looking...."

Pumpkins Galore!

Yesterday, after we got home from our weekend away, Maelie decided that THIS was the right moment to get a pumpkin. I was secretly looking forward to it myself, so off we went to IGA to choose a few. She was ECSTATIC when I told her she could pic 3 bigger ones and 4 mini ones.

Once we got home, she started cleaning them. They were full of mud, so she cleaned while I prepared supper. It kept her busy for quite a while!





After supper, she set up some craft material and decorated them all! She then insisted that the pumpkins pose for the camera.



At one point, she said "Look mom, do you like the pumpkins with the sticks I used?" My heart almost stopped! (slight exaggeration) She had opened up the apple tree stciks I bought that day for our chinchillas that cost 3.79 a small bag!! Oh well, perhaps I can recycle them after Halloween ? A bit of hot glue never killed anyone. hehe just kidding.

Thanksgiving weekend

Maelie and I spent Thanksgiving weekend visiting my family. My sister was visiting from PEI with my three nephews so we got to spend some time with them. Needless to say, we got back home completely exhausted! This is what I feel like doing right now....



Curling up under my heating blanket, just like the kitty.

I managed to get a bunch of pictures. Here are a few of them:


My three nephews: Lucas (9), Nathan (21 months), Brennan (2 months)


Maelie at the park.


Lucas at the park.


Maelie, Brennan and Lucie.


My mom, sister and the 4 grand-kids.


My dad and 3 of the grand-kids.


The happy great grandma.


In this shot, Nathan ran past my dad and my dad had to catch him as I took the picture. He ran off immediately!


He is so cute when he laughs whole-heartedly!


The kids had to sit on the ATV!


Nathan enjoyed stealing Gerry's kleenex packages.

Quiet Sunday

We are having a quiet Sunday at home today. Actually, I am as Maelie is gone grocery shopping with Bill.

Maelie was enjoying hula hooping on the Wii today... she really kicks butt on that sport! She set a bunch of records! I am embarassed to say that I got 7 points. She made it well over 2000!!



We also prepared 100 trick or treat bags for Halloween. I had bought all the candy so I figured we may as well do it instead of having 8 different bags around the house. I also was able to finish my 100 (108 actually) wedding suckers for a friend. My kitchen counter looks very bare now that it is all packed up and ready to go!! I hope she likes them :)



We also took out Maelie's earrings today. She was looking forward to taking them off so bad! 6 weeks of cleaning her ears and rotating the little tiny ones. She managed to not get infected ears this time! She was SO proud to be able to put on some of my golden rings.





Tomorrow is a big day... I will be going back to work after a well needed month off. I do not blog about work therefore I will not go into detail about my time off on here. Suffice to say.... I am not too excited about going back...

I will just keep on enjoying my Sunday now.... :)