Halloween Tradition

When we lived in Texas, we would always try to get together with family for a little Halloween party.  My sister-in-law, Amy, was always great at planning fun  things for us to do and made sure their were fun prizes for the different games.  Everyone usually brought some great food, we played games, bobbed for apples and most of us dressed up, or at least tried.  Anyway, it was always fun.  So, this year, Woody and I decide we'd try to keep  that tradition going, even though we're now near my family.  The week before Halloween was our big shin dig.  We held it in my brother's garage, threw down some straw, decorated it and had some fun.  The kids had fun dressing up and they were cute!  Some of the adults dressed up, so we'll have to work on that for next year, hint, hint!  Every family had a game to play and all in all I believe it was a SPOOKTACULAR evening!  Here are some photos from the event.

Here we have my sister, Tammy, as Raggedy Ann, eating some of Mom's great chili.

As for these boys...I'm not sure who had the bigger muscles, but we'll just say with The Incredible Hulk and Idaho's best policeman, we had our super heros covered.  Even Whitney was checkin' out the boys. :)

Here we have "Lady Vikequeen" and as for Thad, well, I'm not sure, but he was a big lady in a Tutu and he even showed us some moves!

Here's Count Woody Dracula with our cute little ladybug checking out the "treats".  I think the table was full of ghosts and gremlins, ghoul punch, and lots of other good stuff.

Crew was a cute little giraffe and I know you can't tell here, but I do think he really had a good time.

Oh, little miss Azlyn.  She was the cutest, Hollywood duck I've ever seen...

Here's Woody and Josh, trying to keep the kids entertained while building pumpkins from Lowe's.

See what I mean...hello Miss Hollywood Duck...here Grandpa, you wear the hat I've got a camera to pose for!

Here's a great game that Trina had; hilarious too!  We had a kids round and adult round.  They're trying to eat a donut off a string, while it's moving.  

Finding the best Halloween costume of the season...$59.  Watching The Hulk, a policeman, a cowboy and a cute girl eat a donut off a string...PRICELESS!

Vanessa, the maid, was throwing darts at some balloons that had candy in them.

This was a fun game from Tammy and Mike.  We made a large spider web by throwing a ball of yarn back and forth.  It was pretty cool.

Another great game from Curt and Raelynn.  They're trying to drop candy corn from the bottom of their nose into a bottle.  We had a few winners, but not an easy task!

Here's Benjamin trying to sneak some leftover candy corn that missed the bottle.  He was supposed to be our fireman but had no desire to wear his costume.  He had fun though!

Grandma and Grandpa were in charge of pin the nose on the pumpkin.  Another game the kids enjoyed.

This is the tangled web that you can get yourself into if you don't participate...just kidding.  The little ones thought it was so funny to wrap Taylor up after making our spider web.

This was our game...bobbing for apples.  We didn't get as many takers as we wanted, but it was still fun.  This is Taylor going deep.

It's Josh...he scored and barely got wet.

This is Jordan.  She did great...it took us a little bit to convince her to do it, but she got it!

Okay, I don't know if the apple was bad or he just didn't get wet enough.

Even our super heros gave it a whirl.  It was a bit of a challenge though as they have both lost their front teeth.

Way to go Mike...dive for that apple!

Go for it Raggedy Ann!  Oops..we're running into a little trouble....

she had to lose the hair!  We could not get the hair wet!