All Hallows Eve 2012

This was my best year so far!  With a new {fantastic} addition on the roof, a better graveyard, and more props...my Haunted House is turning out better and better every year!  Mwa ha ha ha ha ha ha.  

It's a lot of work to put up (and even worse to take down) but the middle part is sooooo worth it :)

A few pics of our home before the trick or treaters started arriving:

Isn't she a beaut????  Paul took detailed pictures of her construction process so I may do a post if I remember.  We changed the legs a bit but for the most part we did it exactly how it is found here. 

I love this dude.  Most of the time I get a kick out of the many shrieks I hear when one of the kids to get close to him.  This year however, poor cute lil' Chase set him off and was so scared he couldn't get to his mom fast enough!  I was talking to his mom, my good friend, when I saw his face turn to sheer horror and I tried to get him to his mom before he started crying too bad but...what can I say?  My house is haunted. 

I'm not gonna post pictures of the inside but it looked a lot like this - EVERYWHERE.  Lots of giant spiders, web hanging everywhere and bones gallore.

I got to tend Truman in the afternoon while Becky Lou went to work  Ash is not used to having another little person around cuz he basically just wanted to whale on poor Truman.  He got the hang of it though.  While I napped I finished most of my preps for the night.

We rung in this Halloween with Becky, Judd, Debbie and DJ and some visitors here and there throughout the night.  

We served up heart:

Injected brain: 

Witches brew: 

along with pizza, cheese bread and pumpkin hummus with pita and veggies :)  Super delish!

Truman loves lions and he has a lion thing going just like Asher has a dragon thing going so this cute little guy was a cute, I mean scarrrry, Lion and his mom and dad were Dorothy and the Scarecrow.

Asher and Truman....I love their expressions: 

HA HA!!!!   'Im gonna eat you!' says the drunk dragon.  'Nooooooooooo - I won't let you' says the courageous lion!

Our little family of medieval times. I loved this year's costumes!!  We participated in a trunk or treat earlier in the month and our costumes hadn't arrived yet (except for Asher's) so I was sad we only got to wear them once.  

I love this picture! 

Paul makes a super sexy knight, if I do say so myself!! 

Asher thought he got away with raiding the stash...not under this Mama's house! 

Men in tights...and tennis skirts: 

Me and my fire-breathing three-headed dragon:

And knight come to slay the dragon!!!  or the dragon to eat the knight... 

Me and Deb (I mean Black Widow!).  

Playing games later that night...Asher crawled up into Judd's lap - I thought it was so cute. 

It also occurred to me that since my costume was officially Ravenna off Snow White and the Huntsman, wasn't she supposed to eat Snow White's heart?? Why yes she was and I just happened to have one handy: 

I didn't really eat it though. It basically fell apart in my hands and looked disgusting.  

It was a great night - I was SO happy about the weather!!!!  It needs to be like that every year! - and my friends it made it so much fun.  I love having a reason to have a party!

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!!!

I told Paul last night I'm actually lying.  The most wonderful time of the year, for me, is not really Halloween.  Not Christmas, either.  It's the summer.  It's as soon as we get the last snow shower and the cold winds are gone and it's time to plant, cultivate and grow!  But alas...that time has grown to a close once again so it's now the SECOND most wonderful time of the year!!!  

I LOVE HALLOWEEN!!!!

Part 1 of Halloween was taking Ash to the pumpkin patch for his second pumpkin picking with Grandma and Dad got to come along this time, too!  It was nice and sunny until we got there and then the snow started falling and the cold came.  So that sucked a lot.  Oh and then fifteen minutes after we left, it stopped snowing and the sun came back out.  How's that for bad timing?

We picked Ash out this cute lil' warty pumpkin!  

And he basically thought it was a ball and wanted to keep throwing it :)

We all came together to carve our pumpkins and enjoy my mom's amazing stew in bread bowls.

This is Gaven.  You think it would be hard to tell behind all that hair but, alas, tis the hair that gives him away:

Paul is the pumpkin gutter and I am the pumpkin carver - here is our awesome design pre-carved.

Bronsynn's using some back muscle on that thing and Sam is trying to get out of the picture...she did not succeed.

Paul also took on the task of separating out the pumpkin seeds.  It is a daunting task that I never take part of.

At some point, of course when we all had our hands full of gross stuff, Asher found the remote and started flipping channels.  Apparently he's a fan of Family Guy.

This is how Gaven responds to my mom when she says 'Put your heads together - I want a picture!"

My lil' baby helping me out with the art.

Annnnnnnnnd also helping us out to a view of his cute crack!

So was not in the mood to carve anymore.  Besides I needed a pumpkin to stick turkey feathers in later that's not full of holes.

And the end process!!!  Considerably less pumpkins than most years but that's okay - one day things will get back to normal :)  Until then....check out that sickness!!

Gav and my mom made Apple Pie Apples much like Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.  They were delicious and addicting and I may have had too much.

Frightfully Awesome Halloween!!!

This year I was able to add even MORE to my outdoor haunted graveyard!!!  Can't wait until I have a full on Haunted Attraction!

New this year...my homemade cocoon man (which does need some improvements...I was running short on time):

I love my Tombstone Lifter!!:

The Graveyard:

For our nummy treats I made a Snake calzone - it was pretty good!  I think it's funny that the stuff oozed out and made it look like guts!:

This is my mummy with Spinach dip...It went a little retarded but still was nummy:

And, I had to have the Worm Brain!!  (I also made this AND a Frankenstein brain for Debbie's party - I won scariest treat!!):

....And apparently the werewolf didn't like my treats and was on a strict diet of baby:

Becky and her little monkey!!  Truman is soooo cute!:

And apparently werewolf likes monkey:

I heard this alot:  "What are you??"

The answer to that question is:  Selene, the vampire death dealer from Underworld.  I hunt Werewolves...hence why Paul is a werewolf!  And Asher had to match of course so he is a vampire too - I made him Coven Leader :)

We love our babies!!!

He hates this binkie so I had to hold it there to even get the picture:

And the rest are us having our usual geek-fest photo shoot!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!