Halloween Dinner

I've been getting emails full of Halloween food ideas. They looked like lots of fun, and I was itching to try some of them. After we decided to go to Idaho, I called my family and set up a Halloween themed dinner for Sunday night. Amy was gracious enough to volunteer her home. I emailed everybody some food ideas, and at 11pm Saturday night we ran to the grocery store to buy supplies. It seems most of the spooky food involves eyes and fingers...

Would anyone like some carrot eyes or cheese stick fingers? (If you zoom on the pictures you'll see the fingers even have knuckles.) Watch out for the olive tarantulas!

How about a big cheeseball eyeball?
We had orange jigglers. Unfortunately, I didn't have any mini Halloween cookie cutters to use for fun shapes, but I already found some for only .99 so next year we'll be better prepared.

Dad and Nate were put in charge of coating and cooking the chicken fingers. They did a great job, and everybody liked the recipe.

Dad, Mom, Kayla, Amy, Tyler, and Allie sat down to eat. We even had Halloween colored pop for our drinks.

For dessert we had worms in mud. Only the gluten people got dirt on top. We also found an assortment of Halloween candy to munch on while playing games.

Amy and Tyler pose for a picture. What a cute couple!!!

Angie was having fun teasing Amy about her new friend.

Jason was kind enough to cuddle with me for a while. There is just something wonderful about a snugly, sleeping baby.

Mom, Cory, Dad, Nate, and Kayla get ready to eat some dessert.

I hope everybody else had fun preparing such silly food. I never did get a picture of the hard boiled eyeballs. Next time hopefully the kids won't be so disgusted by the food. For some reason neither girl was willing to eat fingers even after I explained they were only cheese. It was fun to visit with everybody, but next time we'll have to do it when Nate doesn't have to leave so early.