Hudson & London’s Birthday Party

 Since Hudson and London's birthdays are so close together we decided to celebrate them together with one big Halloween Costume Birthday Party!  I made the invitations below to hand out to the kids in Hudson's class.  The party was October 30th so it gave the kids a chance to break in their costumes before Trick-or-Treating! 



I had a hard time deciding what to make as a 'goodie bag' since the kids would be getting so much for Halloween the next day.  I decided on Carmel Apples.  I had never made carmel apples before but I found the little carmel sheets you just warm up and place on the apple and thought it would be quick and easy.  Yah, it wasn't so easy.  In fact, it was seriously challenging!!  None of the goodies I got to stick on the carmel would stick.  Who would have thought carmel wouldn't be sticky!!  After many hours of laboring away, we made it work and finished up 40 carmel apples to hand out as our parting gifts!!!  Many thanks to my wonderful Mommy for helping!  The finished product turned out to look very pretty!



We turned our house into a bit of a haunted house.  We also decorated tables outside with fun table cloths and balloons.  We had a moonwalk for the kids to jump in.  There was also a clown that stopped by to make balloon animals for the kiddos.  Here are some of the decorations:


It was so much fun to answer the door as our guests arrived!  I LOVED all of the costumes!!  There's really nothing cuter than babies and small children in costumes.

Here is baby Chase as a convict with a tear drop tattoo and all!!

His beautiful sister, Princess Cailin.

Here are Misti, Kendra, and Carson Clifford:

Ty & Luke Mitchell:

Beautiful Princess Magnolia:

And her little bro, the Frog Prince (Caleb).   Ashlee & Chase.   Holly & Jack (a.k.a. Charlie Brown)

Dennis & Scooby (Carson).

Hudson is so funny.  My Dad did a little face painting and he asked Hudson what he would like to have painted on his face.  He asked for an "Ear" of all things so my Dad drew an ear on his forehead!!!

Londiebug and her Daddy:

Isabella the ballerina

Travis: Superman!

Cake time!!!  I got cakes that matched Hudson and London's costumes.  Our neighbor's daughter, Stephanie, made London's cakes.  She made a special 'smash' cake for London but London was to entranced by everyone watching her and was not the least bit curious about the cake sitting in front of her.  We were kind of bummed there were no pics of her with frosting all over but I have a feeling birthday #2 will be a different story!  I guess a girl has to look good for her party!

Hudson had a pirate ship cake!  He also had a spider cake b/c after I saw the lady bug and the ship, it didn't look like there would be enough cake for everyone so I bought a 3rd cake!  Jason harrassed me about having 3 cakes and it was too much but I'd rather have too much than too little.  I'm new at this!  I'm learning!!  I took the spider to Hudson's class at school and they LOVED it!


Having fun!!  I had lots of games planned but after the kids did the limbo they really wanted to get back to jumping!  (It was very entertaining to watch them do the limbo!!)  I think the moonwalk was their favorite part!  I think most of them never came out of it except to eat some cake.




Presents!!!


We had this backdrop for picture taking! 

  

Thank you to our many guests, friends, & family for helping Hudson & London celebrate their birthdays!!  We had so much fun and can't wait for next year's party!!!