Monday, October 31, 2011

Halloween at the Standridges

For FHE we went a week before Halloween to get pumpkins and wouldn't you know the patch was not open on Monday nights....so to the other patch (Walmart) for our pumpkins....not quite the same but we got some to carve that is what matters.
Checkout . We let the girls get 1 big one and 1 little one.



Time to carve...who is a HAM in this family?!
The mess afterwards....who got to clean that up....2 guesses!





A first for Michael...he had never carved a pumpkin...really. It was fun to hear him sound like a little kid. Carving my pumpkin after helping Zoe


Deep concentration by Amanda. Zoe said, "This is fun! I want to do it myself"...until she didn't like the inside cleaning.



Dinner Halloween NIGHT! It was a crazy day and so we got home late.....not much of a costume for me and Mike but we got the kids up and ready and dinner on the table. I have to say I stole the idea from my sister (IL) Beth..thanks Beth.


Drink was Spider venom.



Mike eating "Liver/guts"(pepperoni/cheese wrap)

The Mummy wraps (hot dog/dough)

Monster blood (Tomato soup)

All together. It was good.

After 5 years with these I finally have a yard to put them up in. Yah!
Our Front porch.






Jen dressed as a (what ever I could find quick)and Mike dressed as a Pumpkin techie.








Amanda dressed as a MIKUCHAN from Japanese Animee character.


Zoe as a Vampire Policewoman. Where do they get these ideas?



Ready and off they go..... Be back by 7:30.






There first round of Trick or Treating they only got about 10 -20 pieces together not very much. Then Amanda went with friends and I (jen) took Zoe to a different neighborhood. We did two blocks and she SCORED with candy. We now have all of there candy and the ones we bought to give out. We had maybe 10 trick o treaters. There were two great homes on the blocks Zoe and I went to . One scared the living daylights out of Zoe and she was worried the rest of the blocks. The second home won my Favorite decor and idea. When you got up to the home there was no door. They had rigged a Computer were the door should have been painted a wall (like at a castle)to it. They had rigged this computer to have a floating face and the people would talk and ask Zoe questions and she had to do a trick to get a treat. It was the best and then it had a little door that dropped out the candy if she did the tricks. It was SOOO COOL!IT WAS A GREAT HALLOWEEN.....HAPPY SPOKE DAY!

2 comments:

Amber said...

I love seeing your home all decorated. I hope to be that festive next year. Great dinner ideas! I am glad you have a good neighborhood to trick or treat in. That is one thing I am so excited for in the years to come because we have a really good neighborhood to go around and lots of people decorate their house! IT is great! Amanda and Zoe looked so cute!

Jill said...

i love it. so fun that mike carved a pumpkin for the first time. xo!