Halloween 2013

I thought the spider from yesterday would make a great intro for the better late than never Halloween pictures from this past year. Our new addition is Suzaaan, the zombie girl. She sits and swings while turning her head from left to right and sings "Lalalalalala". Eyes glow too. Noise activated so there was a lot of singing.

 

Older kids and adults thought she was "creepy." Smaller children loved her and would stand and talk with her, then head through the rest of the neighborhood singing "Lalalalalala."

Happy Halloween

It's that time of year again and soon I will have pictures of our own Halloween to post. Pan has a new little (zombie) girl this year and I can't wait to see her in the yard instead of in one of my dining room chairs and sitting at the table. In the meantime, though, here is a photo of mom and dad at a costume party at one of the NCO clubs. I believe this one might be while we were stationed on Guam. And notice...Mom's shoes are off (again).

Halloween up north

The Princess

Indy and Daughter

Haven't they grown? The Princess isn't that tiny little girl anymore. She's turned into a full-blown beauty. And it won't be long before Indy is taller than his mother. He's already at her shoulder. Daughter makes a striking viking (oh look, I rhymed, hehehehe). I don't want to mess with her while she is toting that battle axe around.

The end is nigh

 

 

The foyer complete with jacob's ladder and it's very own crystal ball. Lights which spin skulls across the wall, a plasma light, fog machine and a cauldron full of candy.

 

A better picture showing the new light illuminating the giant spider. Again the little kids were just delighted with the spider and wanted to go over to check it out.

 

A spooky candle shines its light on the tombstone it guards.



Eying the sites & a lit up Pan

It is so funny that it is the little ones who are truly just mesmerized by the display. Not scared, just curious as to what everything is and how it works. Once they reach about 10, they are terrified and don't want to come up.

Pan really got into the act this year by "designing" his very own light up shirt. Unfortunately for him, he bought a shirt for cooler weather and it was in the 70's. He couldn't wait to get it off. Next year he had better make two. One for warmer weather and this one in case it is cooler.

Pics from the tripod

 

 

The only way to take pictures of the lights is with a tripod. Finally got it set up and was not disappointed at all with the results. Just with the fact that I forgot to charge up the batteries.

Decorate and they will come

 

 

It was a slow start this year. I believe it had something to do with the big Halloween to-do at one of the churches in town. I was starting to get concerned that this  might be the last year that we go all out, but by 7 o'clock the crowds began to show up . Several hundred dollars of candy and several hundred children later, we were all pooped. 

More Halloween

 

This year Pan's best friend was able to join in with the celebration. Hiding behind the web wrapped skeleton, he helped out by pulling the line to make one of the guests of the graveyard sit up, as well as keeping the bubble machine filled. 

A new month and some pictures

Setting up

 

Pan took the week off, but he didn't set up until the afternoon of Halloween. But it gave him more time to go through all of he decorations and electronics to make sure everything was in working order. This year the new toy was a light which shone an eerie green light on the graveyard. I think I'm going to have to suggest that next year we get a small fog machine to put in the graveyard as well. We already have one in the foyer. but I really think the light would be even creepier with the addition of fog.



Happy Halloween

Halloween

Scary     Fun

Frighting     Laughing     Looking

A day of excitment

Candy     Children     Bags

Sweet     Colorful

Treats

 

A diamante poem to celebrate :)

More Halloween Pix

Not going to give a running commentary this time. The only thing here is that I shot these with my T-100 Olympus point and shoot camera using their "magic 2" setting giving the pictures a darker, eerie look and a round vignette. Enjoy

They always come back

Halloween just wouldn't be Halloween without a guest appearence from the Wicked Witch in the Snow White stories. It was an exciting start to the evening.

Bright orange and organza were apparently the "in" fashion for up and coming witches. No more ratty black and long crooked noses for these gals.

A cute little bumblebee buzzed right through the graveyard only stopping to smell the bubbles.

More parents in the fray. Not afraid to dress up in unusual costumes and parade around with their children.

So much for timing. He would jump up when no one was around, once again proving that dead men can't dance.

If you look closely into the door, past the little trick and treaters, you can see the green light of Pan's new laser light show. Skulls danced around on the floor made all the more interesting as the laser lights passed through the fog.

A sailor, Mario and Luigi. Mario and Luigi costumes sure were popular this year. They must be making a comeback after their, what, 15 year hiatus.

The little ones were so delighted with the bubbles, they didn't have the same qualms about the "scariness" surrounded them. Not so for their parents and older siblings though.

Must be getting later... the trick or treaters are definitely getting bigger.

Oh, here come some more little ones.

Back to the big ones again. Note the mother not watching where she's going.

Yep, she walked right into the spider as it dropped down on her.

Look, another guest appearence. This time by none other than Harry Potter.

The eyes see all...... Every moment, every gesture. Not these, of course, but my camera which was placed over by this bush.

I just love these kind of pictures. Bright greens and oranges among the dark of the night. Really sets the mood, don't you think?

And what is this? A skeleton all lit up. I want what he's been drinking.

Tomorrow I will try to post some pictures taken with my Olympics point and shoot. It had an interesting vignette setting that really made the pictures look eerie. Till then.