As you can see, I’ve had a boy’s help decorating for Halloween this year. He would have loved to have gotten more creepy, gory stuff, but I had to draw the line somewhere or I’m afraid we would have walked out of Lowe’s with one of those giant, light up yard inflatables!
Even the pumpkins look a bit scared and mysterious this year. It’s sorta the same look I got when I suggested the kids NOT go trick or treating this Halloween. I mean, c’mon… 10 years of dressing them up, going door to door, then repeating the phrase “stop eating so much candy!!!” for 2 weeks!!! It’s enough already!!! I even offered to buy them their own bag of treats in lieu of a costume. One child considered it, but in the end…. no takers.
So this is how the house at the end of the culdesac got decked out. The orange crime scene tape says “Keep Out! Beware!”. There are abundant spider webs and grave sites, complete with scary, 8 legged, creatures. And you can’t see it in the picture, but there are “eyes” in the bushes that light up at night next to a black crow hanging in a cage that caws whenever anyone walks by. It’s not exactly the pretty fall decor I see all over Pinterest, but it definitely fits our family in 2013!
