Our first Halloween in our new house- we had 191 kids come!
Jim set up the rubber animals - this is taken from kid-eye view. We had one who refused to approach because he was scared of spiders.
Orange lights, pumpkins, skulls, rats, tombstones (one mother told her son that those were the graves of kids who don't say "thank you")
Our decor had nothing on our neighbors across the street. They were featured in national newspapers, and you can see why: in addition to the complete graveyard set up (complete with dead brides, zombies, vampires, witches, etc), they had a witch grandmother and granddaughter playing the fiddle in the front yard (no, really)!
The candy mailed to us from the Natural Candy Store! There's something especially amazing about having a box of chocolate mailed to you. We actually ran out - Jim had to run to the store to get more at 7:30!
Our friend D came down for the holiday - she's a wizard and I'm a witch. We looked awesome.
This is what the kids saw when they rang the doorbell :-)
Jim was a raven. It was quite scary.
Trick-or-treaters on the street in the evening autumn glow....
Jim set up the rubber animals - this is taken from kid-eye view. We had one who refused to approach because he was scared of spiders.
Orange lights, pumpkins, skulls, rats, tombstones (one mother told her son that those were the graves of kids who don't say "thank you")
Our decor had nothing on our neighbors across the street. They were featured in national newspapers, and you can see why: in addition to the complete graveyard set up (complete with dead brides, zombies, vampires, witches, etc), they had a witch grandmother and granddaughter playing the fiddle in the front yard (no, really)!
The candy mailed to us from the Natural Candy Store! There's something especially amazing about having a box of chocolate mailed to you. We actually ran out - Jim had to run to the store to get more at 7:30!
This is what the kids saw when they rang the doorbell :-)
Jim was a raven. It was quite scary.
Trick-or-treaters on the street in the evening autumn glow....
The poultry family came to call.
Davey Jones and a Wild Thing
Tonks, Hermione and a Bunny
in the Skeleton's Hollow (those are dog bones on the mantle...)
