Halloween 2020

 Since Halloween fell on a Saturday and we would not be getting together with friends, we decided to plan an all-day family Halloween party:

Laying out the plan:

We started with a special breakfast of pumpkin pancakes, which Kevin made from scratch:

After breakfast, we worked on our costumes and decorated our little pumpkins:

At 1pm, we got on a Zoom with the Lamy-Petersons and Amy (with Katie), who served as the judge. We decided to go for the amusement factor and dressed up as them, much to everyone's delight:

After the contest, we had a quick lunch and watched It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, before heading outside to carve our jack-o-lanterns:

Early afternoon, we decided to try our hand at making caramel apples. Unfortunately, the recipe we chose required a candy thermometer, which we do not possess. We tried to wing it, but while the caramel tasted delicious, it dried hard on the apples with a consistency more like brittle.

After our baking fail, we decided to move to the carnival-like section of our day and play some fun Halloween-themed games, including spider toss, pint the tail on the spooky cat and witch's hat ring toss:

Posy saw us playing pin-the-tail on the cat and wanted to be a part of it all

Everyone's favorite turned out to be bobbing for apples. We all gave it a try, but only Kevin and Benji stuck their heads all the way in the tub and actually got apples:

Benji's first try failed, but after he saw Kevin do it by sticking his head all the way down, he wanted to try again

It started to get dark, so we moved inside for our last few games, which included trying to drop candy corn from our mouths into a small jar and racing to eat donuts off a string. In between we made a fun (but not photo-worthy) dinner of spooky appetizers and lit our jack-o-lanterns in the driveway so that trick-or-treaters could see them (we left candy out on a table at the end of our driveway):

Kevin's pumpkin

Abby's pumpkin

Benji's pumpkin

Ruth's pumpkins

Spooky donuts from Krispy Kreme

We ended the night with a family dance party:

Witch's brew punch

Disco lights