Scary Faces

The girls' elementary school has a really cool website where all their artwork is posted in galleries. So I thought it would be fun to share Anna's Spooky Silhouette and Janae's Pumpkin Patch in Secondary Colors.

And here are a few pictures from our Halloween haunting. Our street has a block party and everyone on the block (well one block over from ours) decorates their houses to the max! Fake fences and dead branches as trees, inflatable haunted houses and hearses, skulls, webs, life size skeletons and witches . . . and not just in the yard. There are windows blacked out and cracked and broken shutters and ghouls looming overhead from the eaves . . . . and I promise I don't live in a run down neighborhood either. They actually go to that extent to decorate their homes. But it makes for a great Halloween experience.

Unfortunately, as I have stated before, I am not always great at taking my camera along for the ride. So here are a few favorites that we have taken before and after Halloween and you will just have to imagine all the action from that night.

Anna was Frankenstein. One guy said she can't be Frankenstein because she was a girl, so he dubbed her "Frankenstina". She was pleased that her costume was unique. Even though Frankenstein is a well known character, we didn't see any other "Frankys" out there.

Janae was a ghost. Very spooky indeed. My favorite part, of course, is that she is wearing glasses. How many ghosts do you know wear glasses? We did try to go without them at the Trunk-or-Treat, but it didn't go so well.

Daila was a scary witch. Whenever she would actually wear her hat, she would come up to you and put her hands out like claws and say, "Boo!" But then the hat came off and she was back to scavenging for candy. You know what? She actually woke up (or talked in her sleep) at 6 o'clock in the morning on Nov. 1st and whined one word . . . "Candy . . . ." Yikes. We are going to have to hide 2/3 of her hoard while she is sleeping tonight. This isn't going to be pretty.

And my personal favorite scary face of this Halloween season . . . my own. Daila got pink eye from her sitter's house (my dear friend, April. Thanks a lot. lol) Then passed it along to Janae, who then passed it along to me. Oh happy days. So this picture is kinda dark, but one eye is slightly smaller because it is swollen, dry, itchy, and goopy. So the blessing in disguise is I didn't even have to dress up or wear make up to scare people away on Halloween.