mischief and mayhem

This Saturday night, I agreed to host my entire office, all 40+ attorneys and their significant others for a Halloween party. Thankfully for my teeny tiny house, not everyone was able to come and we kept the numbers to a manageable 30 or so at any one time. The weather also conspired against us with our first rainy frost of the season.

I was most nervous about not having enough food for everyone, so I enlisted the help of a few friends and set everyone to task.

I copied Frankie's brilliant idea for pumpkin devilled eggs- they were a BIG hit!















I also borrowed my mother-in-law's BJs card and purchased 300 different frozen appetizers at her urging. I was originally planning to cook everything and was trying to develop a menu which included crab cakes, gorgonzola cheese pasta, salads, butternut squash soup, and assorted appetizers, until she called me crazy and said that I needed to scale down the food. She is brilliant, I might add, and this saved my sanity in the end. I did try to make one thing from scratch, a pumpkin pineapple cheese dip neatly shaped into a pumpkin shape. That stupid pumpkin pineapple cheese dip almost killed me.















Those are also thumb sticks in the background, with half an olive pressed into the top to look like a thumb nail, get it?

Since Scrivener has been goading me to post our Halloween costume pictures, which I only JUST received in time for the party, I present to you Wonder Woman (cue music) and the Incredible Hulk!



















Wonder Woman's costume was not the appropriate size, so she spent a good chunk of the night pulling the tube top up to maintain her decency. Stupid boobs.

We also had some cat burglars that tried to smuggle out some household goods.















We also had a Brownie/Girl Scout, Sue Ellen Ewing (and J.R. who was suffering from a gun shot wound elsewhere in the house) from Dallas and Bree from Desperate Housewives.















Later that night, Sue Ellen tried to shoot me as well, but I was able to head her off with my bullet proof wrist cuffs.

Another member of the Justice League was there, Bat Woman, as well as a devil and a Gladiatrix. Doesn't YG&B look FAB-U-LOUS in her silver wig? I think she should wear it all the time.
















All in all, the party was a success! We had more than enough food (I have 150 appetizers in my fridge and 25 hand dipped caramel apples left over) and a delicious hot apple cider drink that consisted of cinnamon sticks, 3 kinds of apples, organic apple cider and Calvados apple brandy. I highly recommend it!

This is pretty much the sum of our Halloween celebrations, except for some pumpkin carving, scary movie watching and answering the door to trick-or-treaters on Monday. What are your plans?