Sunday, October 31, 2010

Halloween!

We had a very fun Halloween weekend! We started out with pumpkin carving. Adam is the master carver, and Jeremiah and I prefer to supervise.

Look at that concentration!



Jeremiah was pretty excited about watching Daddy carve the pumpkins! Well, we're not sure if his excitement was really about that OR if he was just super excited to be sitting at the big people table!


What the heck is THAT?!?!?!


The finished products... pretty good, huh?


A little blue monster and his punkin.


Then Saturday we went to our friends' house for a Murder Mystery party! The party took place at the Deadwood Saloon (aka the Paulson residence), and everyone was dressed for their characters! Meet Banker Bonnie and Montgomery Money (and no, we were not married).


A little Buckaroo, a little blue monster, and a little monkey snuck (is that a word? It should be) into the party!



Someone was murdered at the Deadwood Saloon!


But who was the killer? Quite a mystery!


The poker game...


Montgomery Money doing some kind of deal with his daughter, Minnie.... rumor has it he was trading gold nuggets for cash to use in the poker game! Very suspicious...


The ladies playing a rousing game of Sequence. I lost $100 in that game!


And the Marshall sharing all the evidence...


And the killer was........... none other than Montgomery Money himself! I realize now that I should have paid a lot more attention to details that evening-- Adam wore his watch on his right wrist, which was a vital clue!

Overall it was such a great night with wonderful friends! We had never done a murder mystery party before, and it turned out to be super fun! And my years spent playing Miep, Aunt Trina, etc in the high school plays must have paid off-- I was voted Best Actress of the night! :)

Oh, and one last picture of a naughty dog dressed up as a baby for Halloween.


Happy Halloween!

1 comment:

  1. I'm very impressed with the artistic pumpkin carving! How does he do all that fancy stuff? the mystery dinner sounds like lots of fun---we did one of those once with the 20-somethings from church. I loved the picture of the little punkin with his punkin. :) And the one of Molly is hilarious!

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