Photo Friday – Halloween 2014 Halloween this year was full of heroes. Jack was Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Will was Superman and Islay was Supergirl. Supergirl didn’t cooperate very well for the photo of their backs. I felt well protected last night.
Photo Friday
Photo Friday – Live Long and Arg Halloween This year we had Spock, a pirate and a bumble bee. Everyone chose their own costumes, well maybe not Islay but if she saw the dragon I was looking at she would have picked this one. Hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween
Family-Themed Costume?
Are you one of those families that don a family-themed Halloween costume? You are probably guessing that we are, but we aren’t. We all dressed up in a themed costume one year, but that was it. I have themed the boys before, but now that they are old enough to have a say that ship …
Photo Friday
Photo Friday – Happy Halloween This year Jack decided to be Jack Skellington from Nightmare before Christmas. When we were at Disneyland last year the boys loved the Haunted Mansion that was decorated like Nightmare. Will wanted to be a skeleton again this year. I went easy and bought the suit, but painted it …
Halloween Marathon
For us Halloween is a marathon, not a sprint. That isn’t to say it is bad; it is just long, stretching over days or weeks if you count all the preparation. It all starts months in advance when the boys decide what they want to be for Halloween. I have a sickness that prevents me …
My 10 Favorite Carved Pumpkins
I scoured my photo archives and the deep dark recesses of my brain to find my favorite ten of our carved pumpkins. I love carving pumpkins. We actually had eight (yes eight) to carve this year. I did five of them. As a kid we used to have pumpkin carving parties and some of my …
Photo Friday
Photo Friday – Zombies One of the new props for the Haunted Maze at Jack’s school is this zombie (or zobee as Jack says) that Jim and our friend Dennis made. He has been standing in our living room waiting for the last week and is really creepy to see out of the corner of …
Finding the Time …
I am having trouble finding the time. There just isn’t enough time in one day or one week to get it all done. How can I fit it all in? I am having trouble finding the time to make Jim’s and my Halloween costumes. I just broke it to Jack that if we dressed up …
Haunted House-A-Thon
As promised here is the post about the Haunted Castle for Jack’s school Halloween-A-Thon on the Friday before Halloween. A little back info. The school Jack is going to is brand new, therefore the PTA and all of the programs are also new. Right after school started we volunteered to help with the Halloween party, …
May the Halloween force be with you
I know many of you have been waiting with breathless anticipation to find out what our Halloween theme was this year. Well you will have to wait until later in the post. Our Halloween was a touch on the busy side this year. Jim and I were the chair people for the haunted castle at …