Halloween Fun!
Posted by Katie in Katie's Blog on Nov 1, 2011
Nik and I had a blast last night!! Nik worked so hard on the porch, and it really paid off. The house was extremely popular with the kids and adults in the neighborhood. Apparently it was “the BEST HOUSE EEEEVVVVEEEERRRR!” and adults even took pictures of it. We had the fog machine going, fun and spooky music, a strobe light, thunder sound machine, tons of spider webs, and flickering and foggy carved pumpkins. Nik built this elaborate stepped stand for the pumpkins and rigged it so that the kids would have to reach through a flickering foggy pumpkin to ring the doorbell. Although we ended up keeping the door open and sitting by the front with JoJo the Rabid Crying Squirrel (so nobody had to use the doorbell), the pumpkins were quite popular. And our spookiness only lost us one 3-year-old fireman. He couldn’t bear the fog.
Here is Jo in her costume. She was a good squirrel but she cried a lot. She only barked and growled at kids with masks on:
Here are Jo and I early in the evening:
The flickering foggy pumpkins:
And a video that puts it all together (sorry it’s sideways…can’t figure that out right now):
Thanks! Wish we had been together on Halloween, as usual. At least we have lots of fun trips planned for 2012!!
Wish I’d been there!!!! Looks great!