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So, I would like to apologize for neglecting this... It really is like we blinked and it's already half-way through 2011! The parents always said that when you get older it seems as if time goes by much faster, but as kids we didn't believe that!

I am going to try and take the fast track and speed through the end of 2010 and first 5 months of 2011 in my next few entries so bare with me. I left off with Halloween. Matt and I both love the holiday and decided it would be the one we pick to go "all out on." Anyone who is close to me knows I have a love for horror flicks so it just makes sense! We started to build up a collection of things this year to transform our house into a haunted one. We found amazing movie quality items on the net, but unfortunately they weren't all in our price point because we had a budget to stick to! So we didn't go as crazy as we wanted to. However, here is a mix of some pictures of the house with it all done up.

I stuck over 200 little paper spiders on the walls and 10 bags of webbing up throughout the house. Bats flew overhead in the living room, one dropped in front of you by the back door, a crazy witch screamed as people entered the house, we brought the cemetery into the front "mud room" as it was rainy and a bit snowy out, the walking dead ripped through our walls, the bathroom was the spiders lair (spiders coming out of the toilet and you had to walk through webbing), and the kitchen was bloody and had body parts all over the counters. The laundry room was torture central with a skeleton man hung by chains, Blood EVERYWHERE, books on how to kill and preserve bodies, bloody sheets, bloody hand prints, etc. All the lights in the house were covered in either red or blue (to set the Halloween mood lighting). We had many different ghastly beverages and meals to eat (syringes of blood that contained jello [alcoholic and non-alcoholic], jello shots, blood punch, ghostly cupcakes, brain cupcakes, and spider web cheesecake). In ode to our love for True Blood and the Charlaine Harris Novels, Matt and I were two of the characters; Bill Compton (vampire) and Sookie Stackhouse (waitress). I carried around "V" Vampire blood vials and Matt bit his friends ;)
It was a great turn out and a fun night. We look forward to having many more parties in our future! I will close for now and write again soon, promise! :)