MHalloween is always a favourite around our house. We broke out the decorations on the first of the month, and it exploded all over our tiny living room. Sara, our "friend", the full sized skeleton took residence up in the couch for a while with her 2 un-named children. They eventually ended up sitting on the floor in front of our tv area. The kids ended up riding the 2 bulldog skeletons. I won't lie, I was glad when the Saturday before Halloween came so we could move it all out to the garage where we displayed it on Halloween night. Our kids have been scarred for years of the "zombie pictures" we display. They are pictures that change as you change your angle. And there is a button you can push and the eyes light up red and a creepy voice talks. Anyway, the kids were starting become afraid again, do we decided that the pictures needed names and stories to go with them. So now, the woman is Sara's (the skeleton) mom Susan, the male is Sara's father, Jeffrey. The final picture is in colour and we have named him uncle bones. Now the kids are not afraid one bit of these pictures. Yea!
Here we are trick or treating with our neighbor and friend Kaden. Sylas was SWAT team member, and Naomi was a black cat.
Not a great photo taken on the phone, but you get the idea. This year I added the floating candles and I had a blast getting labels and such for the potion ingredient bottles.
The front yard not shown here was a graveyard with a strobe light flickering. As usual there were many who would not go up the garage (we had creepy music playing as well). But there were compliments about our display. I sure have fun putting it all together. Aric guesses about 200 kids came. People are starting to come looking for our display. My favourite part though is, after it starts to really slow down, we take it all down and put it away before the night is over. It's been a month, and that is long enough. Time to make room for the Christmas decorations to go up after Rememberance Day.
We hope you all have a happy and safe Halloween.
