"They Say It's Your Birthday"

Official Disclaimer:

We took absolutely terrible pictures, and even very few of those.

So Oly's birthday isn't for a few weeks, but we had so much fun at our Halloween party last year and wanted to do it again, so we bundled them up into one!

Before the onslaught, these photos show the new white trim and the greeny-gray paint color on the walls:

White trim and two toned apricot colored dining room:

Balloons!

Clifford the Big Red Dog, Emily Elizabeth and a stray neighborhood cat.

Here is our friend Aaron, dressed as Pee-Wee Herman:

And our friends Anna and Josh with their little Lady Bug, Mila (thanks so much to Anna for taking this and the two above photos for us) 

I'm hoping others will e-mail us more pictures of all the other costumes, because some were really great. 

Here is Oly after blowing out the candles:

Ruth on the left took off her Piggy costume.  Michael on the right came as Santa, with his parents dressed up as elves.  So awesome. 

There were a lot of people here.  From counting up numbers from evite, we know there were at least 60.  I know that only children ate cupcakes and there were 23 of those eaten!  

We raked a big pile of leaves out front, and covered them with a tarp from the snow so they were niiiiiice and crunchy for the kiddos to jump in.  

Notice the snow leftover on the ground in the back:

And after it was all over, there was very little food left, a super happy Oly and tired parents.  And that was what we were hoping for!

At dawn this morning we dropped Clifford, I mean Papa, off at the airport for a two week trip to Asia so we'll be trick-or-treating tonight with her tiny Clifford stuffed animal.