The Day Before

It is the day before All Hallows Eve. We are all very excited and the yard is completely ready. We have three pneumatics set up this year and all are run by remote control. I did a quick night walk-through minus sounds as a preview.

Also, Krispy Kreme has holiday themed donuts. They should have filled them with raspberry filling instead of cream.


Tomorrow is the big day!

Jack-o-Lanterns, Ahhhhh......

Tonight we carved our Jack-o-lanterns for Halloween. It has been a treat this year, Papa (Jen's Dad) is here for Halloween. The kids are really enjoying him.


Today he and I went over and ate lunch with Sam at school. I am getting very excited about Halloween. Less than two days to go. We have had so many compliments about our decorations this year. We even received a card from people that we don't know thanking us for our great decorations. The addressed the card, 'To the Halloween House" since they don't know our names. Here are our jack-o-lanterns, I do not think an evil spirit will come near our house!

This is Dan's


This is Becca's


This is Michael's


This is Sam's


This is Clyde's




This is mine. It ate Jen's and made it puke.


Here is the group shots of the awesome Jack-o-Lanterns.

Balloons, Family and Halloween

It has been over a month since I have blogged and have too much to update. As usual, I will try to get caught up. Last week was the Morgantown Balloon Festival. Since we have Church in the afternoons we were able to go see a balloon race Sunday morning. It was fun to watch them all set up, take off, fly right over our heads and then watch them disappear in the fog over the ridge.





We also have finally took more family shots of us. It is amazing how hard it is to get 6 people to look at the camera and smile. These are the best that we got and considering how many shots it took to get these three, I am very happy with them.




It has been looking like Halloween around our house for the past week or so. I added a 'before' shot so a point of reference can be made. The graveyard is up. There are several modifications this year. The goul is now a pumpkin scarecrow and is now a remote control pneumatic. I can make him grab at people from anywhere in the yard just by hitting a button. Much better than having to mess with valves. Papa (Clyde - Jen's Dad) is coming out for Halloween and he built a surprise for Halloween which is another pneumatic that I will feature in a future blog. It is going to create quite a few screams on Halloween night. He-He. These pictures are from a couple of weeks ago and there have been some more changes that I will show soon. I bought another anatomical skeleton for the yard so that one could lay in the front dug grave and the other, Dr. Bones as we call him, can stand in the yard holding a lantern. We have been getting quite a few people driving slowly past our yard and numerous compliments on the decorations. Many people look forward to our decorations and what we will add this year. Stop by if you are in the neighborhood.