Halloween ...

On Tuesday, Halloween some of our kids and the grandchildren

came over for dinner and trick or treating

I always make a big pot of beef vegetable soup

for everyone.

the kids don't eat a lot as they are so excited for 

trick or treating!!

Lorraine....a VCU cheerleader

Avery Grace as Princess Peach

Nicole getting ready to help Maddox and what is

up with his arm looking massive long....haha

funny what camera angles can do

Declan as Mario....

Johnny brings out a lot of his Halloween

party things for the trick or treaters....

Ready to get some candy!!

there are kids in the neighborhood who tell Johnny

he has the best Halloween and Christmas house....he loves that!

there were some kids who screamed and ran

and some who just walked by, wanted nothing to do with any of it

haha....

later.....

Halloween party ....

This is our second time of hosting a Halloween party

Johnny just loves getting out all of his creepy stuff

and decorating outside with it

I have pictures of our party set up and that is all...ha!

I used my little polaroid camera and took pictures of everyone 

who came to the party. It was so much fun

seeing everyone's costumes

but I do not have digital pictures to post

only little tiny polaroids!

But here is how we decorated...

our sweet daughter-in-law Kayce did our makeup

Jake and Kayce were Forrest Gump and Jenny....she wasn't in

costume yet

when throwing a holiday party, I like a busy table

you can see below that not only food, I had little bowls with candy

lots of skulls and candles. Pretty much stuck to the skull theme this year

and of course our skeleton filled with crackers, pepperoni's and cheese

veggie tray and fruit tray

We had meatballs, assorted breads with marinara sauce

chips with salsa

shrimp with cocktail sauce

a chex mix called "salty and sweet"

a dish with "eyeballs" bubble gum

sweet tarts shaped liked skeletons

peanuts....

For dessert I had Krispy Kreme donuts

and gingerbread with cool whip

the party was bring your own beer but I did make

a bourbon punch...made with black tea

recipe from my niece Aimee and it is so good

and a shot bar....lots of different shot glasses

and Fireball on ice! 

I love the Ouija board placemat we found

at Spirit Halloween

creepy insane girl hanging out the window

we had to get Johnny to turn her off after a while...her evil

laugh was getting annoying....haha

Fire pit ready to go

pirate skeleton hanging out there

I love putting blankets on the backs of the chairs

for people who might get cold

We ended up having great weather, just a little bit of chill in the air

freaky momma zombie

she rocks and talks in a scary voice to her zombie babies

our son brought some patio heaters over and

some major spotlights

we had 2 sets of corn hole set up in the driveway

this was Johnny's new purchase for this year

he loved it

This wolf monster stood 6 ft 2 inches.....and was quite scary

and that's it

later.....

Pumpkin Patch ....

I went to the pumpkin patch with

Jacquelyn, Bucky, Declan and Avery

we went to a different one this year, Lloyd's Family Farm

it was really nice, not long lines and very pretty countryside

Avery getting her face painted

Declan waiting his turn

so cute

corn maze

such cool looking pumpkins

they had something like 60 different varieties of pumpkins / gourds

Declan loves to scare me with snakes.....he knows I am so afraid of them

so he got a snake painted on his face and thought it was fun

to snarl and hiss at me....haha

later...