Halloween Party part 2 ....

My daughter Jacquelyn and her mother-in-law took a 

lot more pictures than me and they were kind enough

to let me share those pictures on the blog

this one is called peek-a-boo Patty

you expect her to just open her hands up but no

she starts singing to you and them POP.....up goes her head

scares me every single time!

one of our son's best friends and our adopted son

Tommy as Waldo....

more pictures of the grave yard

Former neighbors....Bob and Margaret

so much fun seeing them!!

Tommy, Joanne, Doug, Bonnie, Lois and Gene

another friend....haha

One of Jacquelyn's good friends, Stephanie

and our son Jake

Jake and Kayce

Tom the Deplorable!

Tommy's wife Stacy as killer mime 

Creepy, creepy doll who follows you around saying....

"don't be afraid"

"I only want to hug you"

Tommy's daughter Sienna dressed as a Khaleesi!!

here's a better picture of the table

here's the mirror in the bathroom and it is motion activated

so then that creepy guy pops up and starts yelling at you

to get him out of there.....haha

this is the one that scared just about everyone that

went in to the bathroom

here's the zombie mommy holding her baby

and 2 other zombie babies sitting by her

she is activated by a step pad and she starts rocking

and singing to her babies......so creepy

another picture of the Dexter blood splattered sugar cookies

that's all

later.....

Halloween party ....

last night we had our first ever Halloween party

and it was a lot of fun.

I can't believe in all of the years we have been married, we just

never thought to have one. Johnny loves buying creepy Halloween

stuff and one evening Jake and Jacquelyn had stopped by

we were just sitting outside and they mentioned that we should

have one.....and decided ok, let's do it.

So glad we did. And so now, I'm pretty sure there

will be a "2nd Annual Creepy Halloween Party"

of course I did not take many pictures....I just

really seem to get caught up having fun, talking to everyone

and then forget to take pictures but here are a few

I loved how the table turned out

I did a whole bunch of different pumpkins, not the traditional

orange ones but other colors, beige, black, burnt orange

and bunch of small candles everywhere

to the left in the picture are meatballs

below are garlic knots.....they were so good

here's a Pinterest idea and it turned out great

but then again, it was so easy to do

homemade gingerbread cupcakes

Dexter blood splattered cookies.....another Pinterest idea

We had an apple nacho bar....chocolate, butterscotch and caramel sauces

then white chocolate, heath bar crumbles, walnuts and sprinkles

for your toppings

Not pictured was queso dip, veggies and dip and salsa and chips

we also had a black punch, another one from Pinterest

and that was really good

Our son's fiancee Kayce did Johnny's zombie make up

turned out great

Jake and Kayce as Paul Bunyan and his blue ox Babe

Our son-in-laws parents as "The Deplorables" 

Easy decoration....glow sticks just laying around

I just thought it was fun

We had gone to the shooing range a few week earlier and saved

our targets. Then hung them up and had a "Zombie hunting

permit" sign up and some Zombie red tap across the area

that creepy girl crawling down the tree, she's a freak! 

it got a little windy and that was setting her off with her evil laugh

all around in the mulch area is the grave yard....with the fog machine

another creepy girl....climbing out the window

I had put out warm throws on all of the chairs in case the

evening got cold. The weather could not have been more perfect

but we still had a fire in the pit

this is before Jake built the fire for us

we had a creepy mirror that when you looked in it a skeleton kind of 

guy popped in your sight and started yelling "get me out"

Jacquelyn used halloween makeup to write this creepy message

I'll add some more pictures tomorrow

later.....

Oct 22nd .....

After the Apraxia walk Jacquelyn and I went out 

to run some errands and then met up with Bucky and Declan

for lunch at Red Robin

after lunch I headed home to relax.....had already been

a long day! I had made chili Friday night and all of the kids

were coming over for dinner and we wanted to 

make smores with the grandkids

Jacquelyn took the picture below from the upstairs pool room

what's funny about the picture, that reflection from

one of Johnny's creep Halloween collection!!

we really had a great time

and about 8:00 when all of the kids left, Johnny and I headed

up to JJ's, a local bar as they had one of our favorite

bands playing there, English Channel

So it was a long day but a fun day!!

later......

Apraxia Walk ...

Saturday, Oct 22nd was the second ever

Walk for Apraxia Awareness in Richmond, VA

brief history.....our grandson has a very severe case of Apraxia

He does not speak, he tries to make sounds and sometimes

he can but that's it. Our daughter last year thought of why not

have a walk to raise awareness for Apraxia. We knew of no one

that had this. So she thought by doing this she could meet other

families and build a community. CASANA told her you may have trouble.

They told her others had tried to have a walk and they were

not able to get it off the ground. 

But she thought why not try.

So last year was the first ever walk in Richmond. 

they had warned her don't be surprised if it's really small

and you don't raise much money

well it surprised everyone, the walk last year raised 

just over 12k and there were lots of walkers!!

This year, the second one, was not as big. Nicole was so busy with

a new baby she said she just didn't have the time to work

on it much. But was still nice, raised almost 4k and had about 

100 people so that was great. 

the 6 children there that have apraxia, they thought it was great

Our Maddox was in all of his glory!!

here's our son Jake and his fiancee working the registration table

Jacquelyn, Avery and our friend Debra worked the t-shirt table

here is my sister Kandi and my niece's husband Alex

Alex was so generous and set up the PA system for the walk

Really great to have family support and have them

just come to the walk

Nicole has a few tables set up with crafts for the kids to work on

Maddox had so much fun making the paper plate pumpkins

She has the event at the Sports Center of Richmond

nice to have indoor space especially on Saturday when it

was so windy. I couldn't imagine if we had to have all of this outside!

 here is Nicole with one of the Shining Stars, Brayden

He was one of the participants last year so we

all loved seeing him come back

here's part of my silly group....haha

Maddox's brother....John Thomas

Maddox's sister, Lorraine

I could not take a picture of Maddox's other brother Gabe

poor guy had poison ivy all over his face :(

Even the adults were having fun painting the Halloween mask

One of my little Princess'.....Lorraine, 11 months old

My other little Princess.....Avery Grace, 17 months old

our sweet "almost" daughter-in-law Kayce

My sister Vickie who was one of the volunteers

Another shining star, Katie

we made posters for each of them

Shining star Brad

Our 2 beautiful daughters

later......