Thanksgivoween

Since Mckinley and I will be in the States for Thanksgiving this year, I wasn't going to be able to have our annual Aussie Thanksgiving dinner. I decided to have it a year early and combine it with a Halloween party! It turned out great. I started preparing for the party months ago. The party was on a Friday night and I started cooking for it the Monday before. Krista and Daddy brought us cute Thanksgiving plates, and Laura sent a BIG box of candy and decorations. We had around 20 or so of our friends over to the house and had SO much leftover food! (7 people cancelled the day of) I had such a nice night. All 3 of the babies behaved themselves, which helped. :)

Here are several pics from the night!

Our friend Lauren works on the farm in Bowen that grows the Halloween pumpkins! These were all going to be thrown out, and we got take as many as we wanted for the party. We carved some, I painted some, and the rest were used for decoration around our house.

BIG box of goodies from Laura!

Give Thanks banner

Guess how many candy corn

Our costumes - rock, paper, scissors, fire!

Some of the group

Games!

more games

Carving pumpkins

Dessert - red velvet cake balls. I made a few into turkeys with milk chocolate, malted milk balls, and candy corn. The rest are dipped in white chocolate.

Pecan pie and punch

Goodie bags!

Some of the pumpkins