Noah picked the theme "Scary" for his birthday this year because we were celebrating on Halloween. We packed our day full of fun and started by making a Bat Box at the Discovery Center and then Lucas, Eli and I worked on his cake masterpiece. He wanted a scary cake...so I got a little crazy. Eli helped me carve, clean the pumpkin and decorate the carmel apple cupcakes. We used real carmel as the "frosting" and added gummy eyeballs. We carved the eye and mouth holes to fit the cupcakes and we slowly built our masterpiece. We baked a brain and added a gummy worm and spider on top of that and then used vampire teeth with a gummy tongue for the mouth. It was awesome. After some gory red marker embellishments we surrounded the pumpkin with the extra eyeball cupcakes. It was cool!
It was a small birthday celebration but the big gift was his new skateboard. This is really the only thing he wanted and even though we tried to trick him by using it as a table prop (under the skeleton tablecloth) he knew what it was right away. After his party, we enjoyed a delicious roast (thanks Sonja!) and then got ready for trick-or-treating. We spent about an hour hitting the nice, big houses in our neighborhood and even ran into our great friend Libby. The kids made out like a bandit and came home with a ton of candy. Lady had a great time trick-or-treating once she got over the shock of her kids in costumes. When she first saw Noah she wouldn't stop barking at him...she wasn't sure who was under that mask! She was so excited to see all the kids while we were out and she seemed to have a great time.
Notice that Eli and Scott are twins...Eli dressed up as Scott with a beard and all.
After our candy run we went to our local bowling alley to do their annual Halloween Bowl...but since they changed the time we didn't get to participate in the costume contest (Lucas won last year) but that didn't stop us from bowling in our costumes! Last year we bowled in our costumes for Noah's birthday and the kids decided then that it should be a yearly event....so we had a great time this year. Something amazing happened...I was actually good!! I had 2 strikes, 2 spares and took first place. Woo Hoo...that NEVER happens! Eli was so funny and kept us laughing with each new dance step he would create. Autumn really enjoyed her funky costume with pink hair and danced with Eli every chance she got. Lucas of course was a little dramatic when it came to "praying" his ball in to the right spot and he often begged God while down on his knees...he is a funny boy. Did you see his hot pink mohawk? Cool huh? Noah was the calm and quiet one who was a blur in most of my photos...but we had a great time celebrating Noah's birthday! Happy Birthday Noah!
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