How are you celebrating Halloween?

[Monster Kid]

Looks like you guys had a blast!  We gave out candy to 45 trick or treaters.  The kids were all total strangers... I think most of them were driven in from other neighborhoods.    We had a few more kids than we did last year.  'Jason" , Ninjas and Star Wars characters were the big thing in costumes from this representative sample population.

[BaronLatos35]

General, that looks like a small class! I know they were running you ragged. Way to soldier up and guide them.

We started off with TCM on during the day, while I cooked the baked ziti and took pics of my daughter's first Halloween costume.

Then we put on Nightmare Before Christmas (my wife's favorite) and watched as a family. You should have seen my daughter's eyes, fixated on all the bright colors, weird angles and the songs...she would get fussy if I moved her out of sight. Daddy was proud.

Wine, dinner and monster movies getting ready for the TOTers. We had about 40-50 kids, an average turnout for us. It was great to see them in their costumes. Next year I'm taking my daughter...

At 9, joined the UMA for a toast and just enjoyed the Hallloween night. Back inside to watch Dracula and The Walking Dead...fell asleep with TCM on..

Now it's Dia de Muerte...lunch with my wife and visiting the cemetery for my grandparents.

[charp13]

fmofmpls- You would win a photo contest with that sweet picture!  They all look like they are ready for fun!  The third one from the left makes the same face my grandson ALWAYS does in pictures!  haha- How cool is it to share this holiday with the younger generation? I might not have any great adventures to tell my grandson or monumental accomplishments to go on and on about, but I can sure celebrate Halloween and share my love of Monsters with him.  And the window of opportunity seems so small that you can't wait around. I am so proud of his love of Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman, The Phantom, Creature, etc. But I'm shocked that he has decided that he really loves Zombies! He asked me last night to "please keep my Zombie the way he is, and don't take him apart". I'm trying to convince his Mom and Dad to take it home with them.   

[Wicked Lester]

I'm usually pumped about Halloween for days before. This year I just didn't really get into it until Sunday morning when I started putting my props out and masks in the window. Last year the hours were different and had a couple early birds before noon. Also only about 30 kids. This year the hours were 3-8pm. We ended up with 64 but only 2 scary costumes and too many tween girls who couldn't cared less about my displays. It was the 6 inch spiders in the bushes that got them. I scared a several kids including a few little ones unintentionally. Noticed several people taking pics of my stuff and one father thanked me for scaring the crap out of his kids.
 

[Crazy1van]

I went to UMA member THE WOLF MAN's house for Halloween this year.

[Most Horrible]

'Tis the day after as I write this.

We carved pumpkins, lit them and placed them outside our door, displayed our vintage (1969 is vintage??) plastic mold pumpkins in the window and turned their lights on. Candy was poured into a bowl and we got a total of two, count 'em two,  kids trick-or-treating. -sigh- Our street is not well lit and it is the first year living on this street so I ain't saavy yet as to Halloween turn out. Now I am. One consolation...of the two who stopped by for candy, our neighbor's little boy dressed as the Mummy! Yay! I answered the door wearing my Frankenstein mask. It was fun.

After handing out the candy that took less than two minutes because both kids arrived together,  the rest of the evening was spent watching "The Horror of Party Beach". It was not quite as bad as I thought...entertaining, low budget, teens dancing on the beach, beach band...in Connecticut (not California!),etc. Fake looking creatures. Has anyone seen the movie?

[Opera Ghost]

Dialing in on the next day as well. Well, my overly-exhuberant Halloween Haunt occupied 95% of the day, and was not ready for ToTers until 630pm.

The wife usually makes a homemade sloppy joe, but that was sacrificed and pizza was had. We normally visit the local pumpkin patch the week before for Dad and Little man to get his pumkpin and carve on the day before, but this took place Halloween morning.

We took Mykhail ToTing on our street, all dressed in a Toy Story 2 theme. LM as Buzz Lightyear, his sister Jessica as Jessie, Christine was Bo-Peep, in a VS kinda way and I was Woody. I departed the group to transform into a Wolf Man ala 2010 style for the evenings Haunting at the House on Rodeffer Hill.

Afterwards, we went and visited a couple of other neighborhood haunts, which were pretty well done, and a house which throws a big party and does amazing decorating for the party. Will post pix on the House on Rodeffer thread.

Sounds like everyone had a wonderful Halloween. Sorry to have been absent from the boards, but had an impromptu out of office, then it became a mad dash to complete prep for yesterday
OG

[charp13]

Crazy1van- That Wolfman duo is a great great photo!!  I wish I saw scenes like this more than a couple times a year. Lycanthropy Rules!!!

[Scatter]

 Christine was Bo-Peep, in a VS kinda way and I was Woody. 
 

Let me get this straight.Your wife was a very sexy Bo Peep, and you were.........Woody??

"Dr Freud. Paging Dr Freud."

[Opera Ghost]

Let me get this straight.Your wife was a very sexy Bo Peep, and you were.........Woody??

"Dr Freud. Paging Dr Freud."

LOL...and I didn't even hesitate

[Crazy1van]

Crazy1van- That Wolfman duo is a great great photo!!  I wish I saw scenes like this more than a couple times a year. Lycanthropy Rules!!!

That Wolfman duo be UMA members Gina and Rick (aka the Wolfman).  Give them a hand for their great decorations and costumes; they deserve it!

[Unknown Primate]

Bravo to Mr. & Mrs. Wolfman!  AND to CrazyIvan!  As a matter of fact, BRAVO TO ALL THE UMA!

[BARON TIMOTHEUS BGG]

DITTO!
   I concur!
   'Tis wonderful, to behold, so many Lycanthropes, and, Hirsute Creatures, in our little band, o' Merrie Monsters!

   In an fervent attempt, to down-play redundancy, as well as toungue-in-cheek frivolity {of the FJA HALLOWEEN Spirit School of thought}, allow me, to close this missive, with a modestly stated:

                               I, too, am just WILD, about HAIRY!

EXANIMO EVERNOW,
TIMMY, THE BARON & BARONESS BETH, &, FRIENDS, GOO-O-OODD!, B.G.G.

[charp13]

Thanks for ID-ing them Crazy1van!  I think Mr. & Mrs. Wolfman are sweet!

[Sean]

Let me get this straight.Your wife was a very sexy Bo Peep, and you were.........Woody??

"Dr Freud. Paging Dr Freud."

I have NOTHING appropriate to say.