i love halloween. it’s currently rivaling christmas for my favorite holiday right now. that’s probably because last night was so fun.. i might change my tune once the christmas parties start happening.
kristen and rory had their first annual halloween party last night. after teaching the fitness class i mentioned (more on that later,) i got to work on a couple SUPER simple and fun bites for the party.
bite one: spinach artichoke cheese puffs.
these required only two ingredients. a costco container of spinach artichoke dip and three tubes of crescent dough.
i cut each sheet into 16 squares, placed each square in a mini muffin tin hole, filled it with dip and sealed it up tight.
after 15 minutes in the oven, they were done!
bite two: caramel covered grapes.
i saw this idea on pinterest. simply stick grapes with toothpicks…
dip into caramel…
tada!
marshall whipped up a huge batch of delicious guacamole, too.
once the treats were ready to go, we started on our costumes. yesterday was the first time, and possibly not the last, that marshall wore eyeliner.
any guesses what his costume is? you’ll find out in a second.
we headed to the party and i can’t even tell you how AMAZING the decorations were. kristen and rory really outdid themselves! it was so creepy!!
the best was the kill room complete with hanging body!
but the scariest was the dead doll tea party crawl space.
my favorite part about halloween is seeing everyone dressed up.
marshall was a skunk!
i was cruella de vil.
there were some fabulous costumes last night!! i didn’t capture everyone, but here are the ones i got.
killer + black swan
priest + young boy (who is actually a girl)
popeye + bluto (or is it brutus? wikipedia said both.)
nurse
cruella de vil + skunk
flapper + cowboy
rodeo clown + biker dude
sheriff!
gangsters
the dude + pirate
carmen miranda + barbie
football player + killer
lumberjack
marionette puppet
my skunk again + lumberjack
jazz basketball players that had to get jobs at whole foods because of the strike.
there was a TON of delicious food at the party. jambalaya, pototo salad, chicken, veggies, dips, chips and a bunch of desserts.
there were two super cute halloween desserts..
caramel & marshmallow-filled jack-o-apples.
candy corn cupcakes—SO impressed, sabrina! really!
the grapes were a hit! with jessica, at least.
the party was spooktacular. sorry, i couldn’t help myself.
why can’t we dress up every weekend?
and now if you’ll excuse me… i have to go take care of a mouse problem. yes, you read that right. ugh. have a great day!
xo. janetha g.
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Yay It was so much fun and I’m glad my cupcakes were a success! At least we get 2 more days of Halloween this year!
Oh man…I love them all! Especially Jessica’s swan!
Kristen :)
grrr.. I knew that. Sorry, Kristen!
SO fun! Gosh, I just love Halloween to bits! Your costume was totally rocking! I want one of your puffs!
Love the spinach artichoke cheese puffs idea! I’ll definitely be trying that one.
You have quite the creative bunch of friends! I love the basketball player Whole Food employees. I would love it if I saw some 6 ft 5 cashiers next time I hit up the grocery store.
You looked great – that was a great costume! What a great party – and such fun. Maybe ya’ll can dress up at Thanksgiving and Christmas too, just to keep the fun going :)
We CAN dress up every weekend! And people do! We just call them hookers.
That looks like the best Halloween party EVER!!! LOVE the kill room. LOVE your costume, too! You nailed it.
Black Swan was pretty awesome, too. The contacts make it!
I knew your halloween recap would be AWESOME! I was anxiously awaiting it!
How fun, I love when people go ALL out for halloween like this! Mike and I want to do halloween parties once we buy a house one day!
Love all the costumes!!!!
Love the barbie and her SHOES!!
Happy Halloween Eve!!
love you!
I LOVE your costumes!! Oh my goodness- I’m SURE Marshall’s HAD to be a hit- I don’t think I’ve ever seen a skunk for a costume- so cute! Love the grape idea- you are so creative :)
& those candy corn cupcakes are awesome!!!! I need to make those..like right now…since after tomorrow they will be kind of irrelevant- ha!
Hope the mouse problem goes well :/ Eek!
Your costume was amazing! I hope you were nice to those little Dottie beanie babies. :)
The apple jack o lanterns are so cute!
Blech, mice! I’m just waiting for our annual mouse infestation since its getting cold…
Love yalls costumes!
fabulous pics!
I was loving them as they were coming across my instagram last nite. so fun!!
and caramel covered grapes and an easy spinach/artichoke appetizer…perfect. Must try!
I LOVE all the costumes!! Your’s and Marshall’s costumes were awesome! What a fun party – I love all the decorations and yummy looking food. Those spinach artichoke cheese puffs you made look SO GOOD! And so easy too! I’ll have to try those. Happy Halloween!!! :)
LOVE your costume and everyone else’s, too!!! funtimes!
Boo!
love you.
I laughed so loud at the pic of Marshall’s costume. Awesome.
holy crap your friend should be a rockette
wow your friends did go all out! what an amazing job they did.
and love the grapes in caramel yum!!
love your costumes, actually loved everyone’s! such creative people, unlike us we are not, so that is why we do not dress up LOL
you guys all look fabulous – and you made me very jealous that we didn’t dress up this year!!
Wow, that looks like so much fun! I wish we celebrated Halloween in Australia, although I can’t say I’m a huge fan of dressing up…
Love that the gangster is doing Jazz Hands haha! Love the photo of Marshall looking very adept at applying makeup.
You really nailed it with the cape- I can’t remember what the original one looked like?? You really were looking EVIL also.
You have meeses! Now you’ll have to play the scared housewife and put on a an A-line skirt, do your hair up in a 1950s style, wear high heels (like all housewives do, right?) and get up on a chair and scream. Isn’t that what all the cartoons show when houses have meeses?
Now that is a Halloween Party!!! Love all of the costumes. Yours is absolutely great! You should have dressed up Penny as a dalmatian and then it would have been “spot” on. :)
I bet your friends love that you chase them around with a camera at parties. haha. I especially loved the stiff arms on barbie. So classic.
Oh, and you looked especially cruel. Good idea!
Happy mouse hunting!
Wow what a great party… these pictures are fantastic :) I have never been to a Halloween costume party like this… I mean as good as this one!
awww, great outits! I love it! Glad you had a great time friend. And the skunk is pretty cute too.
;)
Your Cruella costume was AMAZING!!!!! So amazing, I wonder if your puppies were scared! :P
halloween is one of my favorite holidays too, but it totally slipped my mind this year! I’ve had some pretty good costumes, but you guys are AMAZING!
So many great costumes! I loved your Cruella–your costume was way better than mine was when I was Cruella as a freshman in college!
wow that is one sweet party. and some rad costumes, you guys go all out.
The grapes and the cheese buffs are such great ideas! I love simple, tasty bites!
Awesome costumes!
Happy Halloween!
Looks like so much fun. I love your costume, and those artichoke puffs look so good and so easy!
I hope Marshall bought that skunk costume because you can have Lulu’s skunk costume in several, several years…you know, you can have a skunk family ;)
Love your costume…love you!
I absolutely LOVE your Cruella De Vil costume, Janetha! I actually considered dressing as her this year, but decided I couldn’t do it because I have a wig phobia (I once wore a smelly witch’s wig in elementary school and the stench took over a week to wash out of my hair. No joke! Haha).
The party looks like so much fun. I’m glad the dog got in on the costume action too. Oh, and the crescent appetizers look deeelicious!
That looks like such a fun party! Your costumes are fantastic!
oh, i love seeing all the costumes, people’s ideas and creativity just astound me – awesome photos!
and your app + grapes ideas are perfect for me to steal – easy and fast!
i LOVED hallowe’en as a kid – yes, it equalled christmas in terms of fun and excitement.
happy hallowe’en, j!!
I LOVE your costume!!!!!
Happy Halloween :)
YAY! I love it. What amazing decorations. Great costumes too!
I seriously LOVE your Halloween costume! It’s great! Marshall’s is awesome too! Everyone was very creative with their costumes at the party.
I love the spinach and artichoke bites that you made! That is such a great idea for a party! I’m definitely trying that! :)
I love seeing people decked out in costume. I think that your Cruella DeVille costume is fantastic! I also liked the way that Barbie held her hand in that photo…it really looks plastic. Very cool. I might be the only one (didn’t read all of the comments), but I actually found the priest and young boy costume to be kind of offensive. I just don’t see the funny there. Anyway, the decorations really were amazing! Looks like a great party!
your costume was amazing! I used to be a tad obsessed /w 101 dalmatians as a child and had my WHOLE room and everything in it 101 :P I ended up having so much right down to a dalmatian phone that I donated it all to this church a few years back and they made SOOOO much money off of it all in an auction! SCORE :D
I love your costume you are amazing Happy Halloween
awesome costumes! LOVE the skunk and cruella de ville…great ideas! I was a pimp over the weekend, and today i’m a pirate! Good times! :)
So much fun!!!! Love the photos. Can we dress up AND have caramel covered grapes every weekend?
Puhlease?
xoxo
I pretty much love everything about this post.
Oh my goodness you do Halloween up right!!!! Love your costume. And I want to make those spinach poppers so badly.
I love your costume so so much! I didn’t get to dress up this year and I’m so sad. I had a wedding over the holiday weekend.
Loved all the costumes. I am a total Halloween lover. We took our niece and nephew out tonight and it was so much fun!
Forgot to comment! LOVE the costumes and all the treats, I really could use a few of those cute caramel covered grapes —–
Kristen and Rory really know how to do Halloween right!!
You guys all look great!
xoxo
haha Jazz basketball players working at whole foods = awesome. I love creative costumes!
Your friends are seriously the most creative bunch of folks ever… I love all the costumes so much!!!
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