Halloween Party

For the past few years, my two cousins who both live in Los Altos have taken turns hosting a Halloween party. Since we had not hosted Halloween before, we offered to host it this year. And, it was also a good opportunity to invite them to our new home. We also invited our good friends and neighbors, the Yaus.

One of the days leading up to the party, I took the kids to Diddams to buy some party stuff. Afterward, I took them to the Peninsula Creamery for a milkshake. It was their first milkshake. We got strawberry.

Hansel unexpectantly had to go to Toronto, and I would have managed okay (thanks to the Yaus who watched Maile and Beck earlier in the day) if it weren't for these darn spiderweb eggs I decided to make. It took me like 10-15 minutes to peel each egg, and for a lot of the eggs I didn't even peel off the entire shell. The reason it took so long is because I had to peel off the shells while keeping the thin membrane in tact to keep the spiderweb effect. Other than the spiderweb eggs, we had Carrot Fingers, Mummy Hotdogs, Pizza Mummies, Blood and Guts with Eyeballs (linguini, spaghetti sauce, and mozzarella balls stuffed with olives), Halloween-themed cheese and crackers, pumpkin mini-muffins, and green juice (kiwi and mint). I got all the recipes online. One of my cousins brought Halloween cookies while the other brought vegan pumpkin muffins.

After dinner, I stayed home to pass out candy while the rest of the mom and dads took the kids trick-or-treating. We didn't get as many kids as I expected but more than we had gotten in Los Altos. Around 7:30 I heard a gaggle of kids ring the doorbell. To my delight it was all of our kids returning. Oh how I wished I had a camera at hand. It was a sight to see all of them thrusting their buckets at me and saying "Trick or Treat."