Ahh, the party has come and gone! We started out this tradition 4 years ago when Mike promised a haunted house in the garage. We threw it together over night and the kids loved it! Now that we've come this far it takes a month of planning and then many nights of construction. The kids go nuts when they can't come into the garage because it's a surprise! Oh what a good time we had!!
The spread! We had hot dogs, hamburgers, bone shaped bread sticks, choc covered pretzels, body part jello from Grandma Coldwell, frog eye roll-ups, veggies and dip, rotel, and lots of chips and popcorn! What a good time. Nana Foley and Tisha made wonderful cookies and brownies. All of our guests brought fabulous snacks to share. Thanks guys and we can't wait till next year!!
Kaelyn was a 50s waitress... so cute!!
When everyone started going through the haunted house Cayleigh from down the street didn't have anyone to go with. Everyone was too scared! Soooo, I said I'd go. The trick there was that I had gone through it many many times while they were making it!! I have to say that they did an amazing job!! The haunted house took: 1 gallon of fake blood, 4 tombstones, 1 bale of hay, 12 rolls of gorilla tape, 60 dresser sized boxes, and 4 30 something guys having a good old time!! The kids were scared and lovin it! Most of them asked if they could come back again next year. There were only 3 kids that refused to go through. That tells me it was a success!! :-)
Cayleigh eventually went through by herself.
The boys were more scared than their faces revealed in this picture. Here is Nathan in the back and Kyle up front.
And this is what was chasing them out of the haunted house!! I hear that Sean had some serious knee swelling after that night!!
We tried to do bobbing for apples as kids were coming out of the haunted house. Well, once the big kids got around to the barrel no one wanted to eat the apples. Kali and Landon decided that the game was all about grabbing the apples, biting the apples, then dropping the apples! If they weren't so cute while they were doing it I would have stopped them!
"Which one do we eat next?" Do you see the bite marks?
So nice that they can share! Actually I think that Kali was trying to take the apple from Landon. She has turned into a little diva...it's all for her!
Aftermath of "Toddler Apple Bobbing"! She was soaking wet and shivering. Time for some warm jammies!
I tried to take a cute picture of Kiley and the kids and well... Nathan jumped in! This was one of the masks in the haunted house!! Creepy huh?
Before bed Kali decided to stir up the popcorn treats and "dish" them out for later! This was sooo yummy! I took a bag of freshly popped corn, still hot, and dropped it into a big bowl. Then I dumped half a bag of chocolate chips, half a bag of marshmallows, and gold fish into the bowl and mixed it up! It was a huge hit!!
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