Halloween at the Smith-Chen Household

Christian has always loved Halloween – every year we have a pumpkin carving contest and I lose miserably.  Now that we have our own home, we can up the ante a little at Halloween.  We now not only have a front patio to showcase the pumpkins, but now we get to decorate the whole house!

The pumpkins, Christian won again this year (his is on the right):

The decorations:

Cobwebs were hung all over the front of the house with various eyeballs and fingers stuck in them.  A skeleton hung from the front window. 

Christian turned the raised vegetable garden into a graveyard with a dead man’s hand reaching out from the dirt.  And our fountain became a fountain of floating eyeballs.

And since Christian wanted to make sure he addressed the “trick” part of the holiday, he hung cockroaches from our trees that line the sidewalk.  We heard a couple of screeches over the week from passersby

This is our second Halloween in Talmadge, so the good thing is that we were prepared for the trick or treaters.  Last year we ran out quickly, so this year I stocked up.  Christian thought I was insane for buying so much candy, but he didn’t see the lines we had last year down our front pathway.

To make sure we knew how much to buy next year, we tallied how much candy we went through this year – at 1 piece of candy per kid, we had handed out over 400 pieces of candy by 8:30!  And we still ran out!  At the end of the night Christian was giving away the glowsticks we used to decorate, and even our pumpkins.

The advantage of having 400 or so kids come by our house is that there are a lot of chances to scare them.  At first I was hesitant about scaring little kids, but Christian showed me how to do it right.  He hid behind a wall at the front entryway and yelled when a kid approached.  We got them pretty good….Is it bad to enjoy that so much?

Anyways, that was our Halloween.   Count Tahoe hopes you had a spooktacular Halloween as well!