Halloween 2025

I think we will have to tone it down a bit next Halloween.  Our animatronics had younger kids in tears.  Our jumping spider was the biggest culprit, because that's the first thing to get passed, and then everything else gets triggered, our swinging girl and our grave keeper.  

It was funny, but wasn't.  Trevor got a kick out of how many children and adults were frightened, but when kids didn't want to come to our door, I'd have to walk all the way out to the walkway to give them candy, triggering the animatronics once again.

The best surprise of all was that our godson Shawn came to visit and trick-or-treating in our neighborhood.  We stopped passing out candy, and let my sister take over, so we could find Shawn and his dad and walk with them on our first Halloween being godparents.  I had fun.  

It reminded me of when I used to take my own children Trick-or-Treating, when they were little.  

All that decorating, and it all comes down tomorrow as well prepare for Christmas.

Halloween Hike

Trevor and I went on a morning hike.  We have been in the Halloween spirit since back-to-school season was over and all the Halloween stuff in stores came back out.  

He has so many plans for Halloween this year.  We went on a hike in Norco, California called Pumpkin Rock Trail.  It was loaded with dog and horse waste, but it was an adventurous hike.  At some point I got tired of walking and then I saw the orange rock in the distance and knew we had to get to it.  

So many hikers and tourists were there taking turns taking pictures.  I offered to take a family's photo in hopes they would take ours and they did an amazing job.

After our hike, we stopped by the Spirit Halloween store in Norco and got a few scary toys for our front yard.

Happy Haunting!

Halloween 2024

Happy Halloween.  

Tonight has been great.  Most of the trick-or-treaters were frightened by our graveyard.  We did have two boys who didn't want to leave.  The first was a baby who was in awe of all the lights.  The second was some children from Africa and they had no costumes and no bags.  I gave them grocery bags to trick-or-treat with.  The older of the two boys wanted to come into our home and his mom pulled him back.  He has a tantrum.  

Many parents took pictures of their children or family pictures in front of our graveyard.  This made Trevor very happy at the success of our Halloween.

Next Halloween we will have more animatronics.

Sinister Sisters

I did a thing. I bought Trevor 2 feet tall, twin animatronic dolls for his graveyard. They move, light up, and talk...and are voice activated.

I hope he likes them. I will NEVER keep his Halloween props in our home. They are bad energy kinda creepy...and will stay in storage when not in use.

Review:  after receiving the Sinister Sisters, they fall over a lot.  They also are activated by touch.  So, they don't make noise or move with voice activation as it was advertised.  

Animatronic Shopping

I like Halloween. I always looked forward to it when I was a kid and when I had kids. It was the prelude to the Christmas season.

I tried to let my kids be scary if they wanted to be. My daughter ALWAYS wanted to be a scary or dead thing for Halloween. My son's were all kinds of characters from cute to scary. I wanted them to NOT believe in scary things and just have fun with it, because I was TERRIFIED of ghosts and goblins as a child. I didn't want that for my kids, so I let them dabble around with the creepiest of creepy when they were very young, but I started with cutesy decor like happy pumpkins and cute witches to spiders, skeletons and skulls, fake blood and fangs. And, for the most part, my kids were not scared and enjoyed the holiday.

I am hoping other parents are like I was with my kids...because Trevor is going all out with the scary stuff, and I'm afraid little kids won't want to trick-or-treat at our place...we will probably have to walk the candy out to them. To be honest, I have been looking at animatronic decor. I am enabling him and his thirst for gore.

Halloween 1973

I wasn't born yet, and my parents hadn't met yet. Here are my older half-siblings, April the Clown, Jeri the Princess, and my poor brother Tommy dressed like a witch. To get him to wear the witch outfit, they had to convince him he was a Warlock.

Halloween 2021

We passed out Candy. Trevor was a Devil 😈 and I just wore Halloween print leggings. We had 4 trick-or-treaters and a downstairs neighbor all evening. Trevor was super excited about passing out Candy. We had a bunch left over and it's all gone now. What the 🤬 Trevor? I need chocolate in my life. 😭