I know some of you are hiding from the trick or treaters, and others are wishing you could get the kiddies to come.  We just don’t worry about them.  After 4 or 5 Halloweens without a single kid on our street, let alone our property, this year we decided to eat all the candy ourselves.

Okay, not quite.  But, we did have a Halloween party for just the fam.  I attempted to make broomstick cookies…which looked more like ping pong paddles when they were done.  The kids decided witches use their big fat broomsticks to play ping pong in the sky, so that will explain the giant dent in the roof of your car tomorrow.

We made a Halloween village, complete with the vampire family, crazy guy, and demon house in this pic,

and a haunted house and normal family in this one.

Can you guess which is the normal family?  Hint, they’re trying to blend in but they’ve used too much orange in their deocrating.

The making of the village prompted me to spin a story in which a normal family moves into a new home and is instantly befriended by all the neighborhood.  In fact, everyone is almost too good to be true.  Accidentally left your trash can open so your litter blew up and down the street?  No problem!  Let your dog out and he ate the neighbors prize canary?  Hey, don’t fret over it!  We’ll not only shovel your walk when it snows and walk your dog when you’re away, we’ll pick up your messy fruit that falls on our side of the fence and whip it into a delicious batch of applesauce or preserves before giving it back to you!  Of course, once Halloween rolls around we’ll all really turn on the charm, cause we’re hoping you’ll come to the party at our house.  You’ll be the ‘guest’ of honor.  ::wicked laugh::

Good thing we’re not a normal family.  And, here’s proof.  The silkies heard we were setting up for a party and decided to show their festive spirit by making an impromptu Halloween line up.

Happy Halloween!

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