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"About Us" - The Family

First off, hello and welcome to our site, "All About Halloween"! My name is Sandy. I am the main Halloween fanatic in this family. I love Halloween. (Can I say it enough?)

My Halloween fever has been passed on down (or at least some of it)  to my two daughters, Heather and Amber. According to my husband, Pat, he can take it or leave it (or so he says, "he would rather be fishing").

"About Us" - The Halloween Obsession

I became obsessed with Halloween quite a few years back. Growing up I was always fascinated with anything gory, the makeup, the props, haunted houses, scary movies and scary books (Stephen King is the best). I had this thing that I loved to be scared (provided it was a "safe" scare.)

"About Us" - The First Halloween Party

How we (or I actually) started out with all this Halloween fun was our first Halloween party was a mixture of a birthday party and Halloween party. (One of the birthdays fell in October, obviously.) All the guests and (almost all) adults were dressed in costume. I had the house all decorated with the usual decorations and a witch's cupboard and  with a few outside decorations.

We met up at my house and then we went to this restaurant that had a haunted house within it (if you ever heard of Casa Bonita in Colorado you'll know what I'm talking about.) Everyone had a blast! That was it - the Halloween (party) bug bit me and bit hard.

Since then, each party had to be bigger and better than the last one.

"About Us" - The Next Party

The next party was several years later. It was an indoor / outdoor party (which could be scary in itself when you don't know what the weather is going to do - could snow or just be plain cold.) It ended up being just slightly cold so there wasn't any problems.

We had a tunnel outside down the side of the house you had to go through to access the party in the backyard and then there were several areas that had themed decorations. We used the utility easement behind the fence for the graveyard.

When parents picked up their children, they all had to have a tour of all the decorations.

My daughters' friends all talked about the party at school and thought it was great!

"About Us" - The Halloweens Later

We had to lay in wait for a couple of years before we held the next party. This party we recruited three families with their children to help plan, build, and then be the scare-actors in the party.

The theme was "Fractured Fairy Tales". The main floor of the house, garage and front yard was part of this party.

The front yard had The Wizard of Oz theme with the headless scarecrow and flying monkeys eating from the scarecrows pumpkin head.

The first room coming into the house was a mix of Sleeping Beauty and Rumpelstiltskin.

The kitchen was from Hansel and Gretel with a small child in the stove hollering the whole time to get out.

The next room was Little Miss Muffet and all the spiders.

The finale was in the garage. This was based on Alice in Wonderland. We had the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, the Queen of Hearts ("off with their heads!") and the boneyard garden.

The White Rabbit and Alice would lead you around down the shrinking tunnel (or were they getting bigger???). Once again, the party was huge success!

We even had some party crashers from the neighborhood. They had seen that we were working on things and wanted to check it out also.

"About Us" - The In Between Years

Even the years when we didn't go to the extreme of having parties, we made sure that the neighborhood still enjoyed our enthusiasm of decorating and scaring the trick or treaters (TOTs) (and, of course, their parents too - they were the best scares!).

I have built this website with you in mind (and gives me a chance to ramble on and on about us and our favorite holiday, Halloween). I hope that I can help you have the best Halloween experience that we have always had.

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