Halloween is my favorite holiday, so what better time to test out my hostess skills? So me and Dave decided to have a small get together to start off with, and I called it our Halloween Haunted House Warming Party. We invited a few people, and said that costumes were opintional.

I was stressing so much over getting food and desserts ready. I worked pretty hard on getting the menu together:

- orange and black bruschetta on halloween french rounds
- halloweenies - mini sausages wrapped in croissant dough
- oreo crust pumpkin pies with vanilla cool whip
- haunted cupcakes
- spicy bat wings (and a little undercooked, too)
- worms and dirt
- shrimp and dill deviled eggs

...um...I don't remember what else. It was all a blur!

But it was a pretty successful party. Mel brough some Filipino spaghetti (with hotdogs and everything!) and other people brought some other tasty treats and drinks. The girls came over early to help prepare and give me a hand with the cooking. It was really odd that I was cooking all this food and all Claudine brought was meatballs.

It was nice to have everyone over, and we had a lot of fun watching each other switch to different costumes. Marilyn was an 80's girl, Cleopatra, a whore, a lounge singer, and god knows what else. Manny was the only outside guest to dress up, as an Illini basketball player. Don't ask me who. I don't know.

We had more food than we could eat, and tons of desserts! After eating and watching some movies, we started watching the Bear's game, and we won! The guys were yelling and cheering and Jillian was upstairs screaming everytime she'd hear Maui cheering. She's so cute!

It was a bit hard to be a domestic hostess, but it was so great to have everyone over, just chilling out and having fun.

Next up, the REAL housewarming party! Don't know when, but it'll be in the next couple months!

Here's some pics from the night:

Posted by Yano at November 4, 2004 09:31 PM

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