Happy (belated) Halloween from 1114

So, I couldn't help but rhyme in my title, it was just too good! I also realize that I haven't blogged in FOREVER, so I apologize for neglecting all of this. I'm a lazy blogger.
Halloween has already come and gone, but I really have been looking forward to sharing with you all of the festivities. I've always known that Joe was big into Christmas and Thanksgiving, but I was a little shocked when he came home from work about a month before Halloween with a detailed drawing of Halloween decor, all over the house!! As Halloween approached I became more and more hesitant as Joe grew more and more ecstatic. I grew up in a house that never went crazy over Halloween, we didn't buy costumes and we didn't buy decor. We had a pumpkin and a homemade outfit, and that was as good as it got. And I'm OK with that. So, I was a little bothered when Joe turned our yard and living room UPSIDE DOWN for Halloween.

Joe put together a rickety old fence, we pulled a bunch of dead plants that we had cleaned out from our gardens over the months and put them in the "scary old" pumpkin patch, leaned some dead tree branches up against the house to look like dead trees, and of course what is Halloween without some fake spider web? Obviously, you can't really get the full eerie effect since I took the pictures during the daylight, but oh well.

Joe pulled all of our furniture out of our living room, did some electrical work for the "old" chandelier, hung a deer head , pulled out my china and covered it with cob webs, and hung a sheet with pin tacks.

He took an old door from our basement and leaned it in the doorway of our office. Hung that sword, put old looking books in the book case, as well as the outside of his grandfathers radio, and of course MORE cob webs. Behind the door was a fog machine which was smelly.


Joe dressed as an old butler and his brother visited us for the weekend, and dressed as an old man too. We had a really great time, and had to run out for candy twice because we had so many trick-or-treaters, which makes all of it SO worth it to me. Joe would stand in the guest bedroom with a candle looking all scary, and it really was a big hit. Everybody got a real kick out of it.