Thursday, November 19, 2009

Halloween Activities

The Halloween Festivities started with:

Boo Zoo...the trick or treat with the Louisville Zoo.

Ella's favorite part of the whole thing was seeing the PINK flamingos.
It was near impossible to get her to do anything. Although, she did master saying thank you after getting a treat.

Cyndi's Halloween contribution...Zumba Thriller at 7 months pregnant!

I have the awesomest class that is up for anything.

So we did an ode to Michael as part of our October Zumba classes by learning "Thriller."


Ward Halloween Party.
Trunk or Treat and Chili Cook-off.
We actually won 2nd for the while chili.

Little Princess Ella as Belle with her friends.

Happy Halloween from our family!


Trick or Treating in the Neighborhood...

Ella and daddy walking the neighborhood.

One house was totally decked out!


Friend's Halloween Party at the Southwells...

This was our first attempt at Homemade Root beer. We learned that we don't need 15 lbs of dry ice. It makes for lots of smoke, but pretty soon you can't drink it because the whole thing will freeze over! We literally had to use an ice pick to open the valve. It actually took 2 days for the whole thing to finally melt! Oops!

Next was a very cool ghost cake whose eyes lit on fire!



The pumpkin pinata was fun and since Ella wouldn't participate, Jed got to swing instead.

Last and certainly not least was...
The undies breakthrough!!!
Ella has wanted to buy big girl undies, but never wanted to wear them until after dressing as Belle for Halloween night. This was a big moment for her.

Ella's 3!


It's a Princess Party!!!

Ella has known for months that she wanted a "yellow Bell" party.

She was sooo excited while we were making her cake. When we were finally done she just dropped her jaw and finally said, "Wow!!! She's beautiful."


Opening her princess presents.

Singing "Happy Birthday to me."

Showing us that she's 3!!!!
Ella, Ella, we love you!