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our SUPER Halloween!

Now that it's a week away from Thanksgiving, I guess I better post our SUPER Halloween photos! I've decided it's close to impossible for me to be all caught up, stuff just keeps happening and will keep happening. So I've decided that as long as I'm close to the present, that's good enough. I actually CAN'T believe it's the middle of November today, Halloween really feels like it was yesterday.

This year our Halloween revolved around Superman. Big Surprise!  =0)

I was Supergirl! It actually surprised me that many people don't know who she is. Which is weird to me cause I loved the movie so much when I was little, that I wore out the tape! Supergirl is Superman's cousin in the comics and movies. Since Ryan was Clark Kent (Don't you just love his costume!) and I was Supergirl ....everyone kept teasing us that we were kissing cousins! Come one people....it's a THEME! Even Ellie was Superdog! And I think we looked great!

 Just having some fun.....

The last couple of years, Katie and I always want to dress up, but have no where to go. So this year we decided to throw a Family Halloween Party, and it was mandatory for all to dress up! We had lots of yummy spooky food and a photo shoot for each family! It was a crazy fun night!

This picture made me laugh for about 5 minutes straight. Ryan jumped in right as Katie took the picture.....

This has to be my favorite picture! Those boys always have so much fun together.

We are the Justice League!

The Family....

The Party......

Who's seen The Emperor's new Groove? Great, isn't it!

He's just so chubby!!! I could kiss those cheeks all day!

The Donut Game for the kiddos!

And Finally, the White Elephant exchange!

Do you think there is enough of us? Love my big Family!

the bike ride!

Last year we went on a bike ride to Gardner Village to see the Witch feast. It was seriously so much fun, that I now have to make a new tradition to do it EVERY YEAR! This years experience was just as good.The weather was perfect, not too hot or too cold, and oh my.....the leaves! AMAZING! And the company was by far the best part of the whole adventure! My family is so fun!

Here we go.....

 

 Zoom, Zoooom.....

 

                  What a fun and happy day! =0)
                                   

I love Gardner Village this time of year! The whole place is decked out with witches and spooky things!

It really gets you in the Halloween spirit!

As you learned in my last post, I'm a Christmas/ Halloween village lover. There is a store in Gardner Village FULL of these little houses! It's soooo fun! There's spooky haunted villages, such as the "Nightmare before Christmas" houses, to "A Christmas Story" villages! Which I totally want....I love that show!

I hope this new tradition never dies! It was such a nice and stress-free day, a much needed escape from the busyness of  life. How I love those days, I wish everyday was like that. I guess if I had those kind of days everyday, I wouldn't appreciate it. It was defiantly a day to be thankful for.

I love October......

.............. because of three reasons:

1. Halloween!!!!! I love, love, LOVVVEEE the Halloween season!
2. It's Ryan's Birthday month and I love any excuse to spoil him rotten!
3. Haunted Houses!!

Every year, if I have time, I try to add more to my already big Halloween decorations.

This year I added this:

Halloween decor balls! Every time I say "Halloween balls" ....Ryan laughs. Yes, I have a real mature husband. Anyways.....I am happy how they turned out.

The new obsession this year was a Halloween Village. I absolutely love my Christmas village, and enjoy it all Christmas season. Why has it took me so long to get a Halloween village? Well, they aren't as easy to find and can get REALLY expensive! Most I found were $100 plus for ONE little house!! CRAZY!! So then the hunt began, I spent hours searching stores and Internet sites for these little spooky houses. After a month of searching (I started looking in the beginning of August) I finally found some I loved at Micheal's Crafts, and they were more affordable. Ryan let me buy one to start off my collection. But you can't have a village with only ONE house, so I HAD to get more! So the searching continued, in hopes to find some a little cheaper than the ones at Micheal's. My searching was not in vain, I found an  awesome website that sold the exact same brand as Micheal's did, but they had a Clarence section!! I was in heaven! I got four more and found lots of happy scary figures too!

The Zombie Cafe!

I like the little guy on top munching on the leg.

The Haunted House decked out with Halloween decor! Along with my Headless Horse man and Were- Wolf howling at the moon!

Frankenstein loves to hangout at the grave yard with the Grim Reaper.

The Sheriff Station filled with cowboy skeletons....

Endless love.....awweee, how sweet!

Grimsley's House of Halloween Decor and Mr. Mummy.....

The Monster Truck full or MONSTERS!  =0)

My favorite, the Dingy Dungeon Pub!

I love my spooky little town! It will be so fun to put it up every year!

For Ryan's birthday, I wanted to make Ryan a great cake! But as you have seen in previous posts, my cake making skills need a lot of work. I owe a huge THANKS to my dearest friend, Becky, who offered to help me make Ryan's cake. Let me just tell you how much I love this girl! We've been besties since High School, we studied and played hard together during the college years, and she basically hooked me and Ryan up! I will forever be in debt to her for that! Not only is she one of my most favorite people in the world, she is one of the craftiest creative gals I know as well! Thank you Becky for all your help and for always being a great Friend! I love ya to death!

Becky did most of the work, she baked the cakes beforehand so they were ready to frost by the time I made it to her house! And I learned so much, she is just a great teacher! I might (maybe?) could make another like it in the future by myself. We'll just have to see about that when that day comes......

That blue frosting was SOOOOO dang good. Man oooh man! I could eat that stuff all day long! By the time we were done, our months were bright blue cause we kept eating it.

We made the cake 2 days before Ryan's big day, I wish I could of saved it for his real Birthday, but our schedule just wouldn't allow that. I surprised him the very next day and he LOVED IT!! Who wouldn't love it....it's pretty AWESOME!

When Ryan cut the cake, he couldn't cut through the "S", he said it was just too cool to ruin.

Not only did it look awesome on the outside and inside.......it sure tasted yummy! Way better than any store bought cake. I never did like those.

I've been going to Haunted House since I was in grade school. I remember the first one I went to was the original Rocky Point right by Pleasant View. From what I remember, it was the best one I've ever been too! I don't know if it was cause it was my first or maybe the atmosphere was just really good.
Last year we went to Castle of Chaos.....and it was horrible. Who wants to pay $20.00 a person to wait in line for HOURS for two crappy haunted mazes that lasted 10 minutes? It was so hot, stinky, and too crowded everywhere you went, and the "actors" were teenagers that looked like the spent a whole 5 minutes putting on their make-up. If you are a Haunted house goer....do not go there! Waste of time and money! But do go to FEAR FACTORY!!! So fun! One of the best Haunted Houses I have ever been too! We got lucky and got a VIP pass for the price of general admission, which meant we got to cut the line, get a free water bottle (wah-hoo), and get FREE pictures! 

 This one's my fav.....it makes me laugh!

A rotting bloody foot....ewwwww, yum! 

 Lets see how high we can jump....

How I love October! It is defiantly a great month.
And there's even more fun to come......