It Was A Spooktacular Night

I know it's November 3rd an Halloween is already in the books for this year, but I had to work until midnight the past couple of nights, so this post is a little late getting up. Still I wanted to share a few photos of our haunted house. We had soooooo much fun putting this one together.

Walking up to the garage.

 We nicknamed him "Scary Guy"
No one could figure out if he was real or fake

 It's all fun and games until someone loses a head!

Some ghosts and bats to greet the guests

Anthony and I made the coffin and then put a corpse with glowing eyes and rats munching on him inside. Add a few candles and some dead flowers and you've got a fine looking dead guy.

A few heads and masks

The deranged doctor's lab

Much better at night

The Mad Scientist's Lab

Lisa ready to do a few experiments in the lab

We also had a fog machine going and some spooky music playing which really added to the effect. It was a ton of work getting everything put together, but well worth it listing to all the kids (and some adults too) when they went through.

Haloween Eve Eve

It's getting close to Halloween and the sunshine outside today gave us the perfect opportunity to get some ooky spooky  decorations up. Most of the front yard is done. Black plastic trash bags cut into strips make a great backdrop to the front porch. When the wind blows they flutter and give a eerie feeling when it's dark outside.

Anthony, Lisa and I made a guillotine complete with a "blood" soaked blade. The severed head will be placed in the basket on Monday. Ah yes, a warm cozy, Hallmark, sort of family moment.

We also made a witch that appears to have flown directly into the column. That should get a few chuckles.

Tomorrow we will turn the garage into a haunted house. Mad science lab, Coffin with a demented zombie, Spiders with webs, snakes... yep, it's gonna be scary fun. On Monday we'll open the garage door and let the little monsters from the neighborhood come in and see our monsters. Lots of treats to hand out too.