This year everyone was coming in costume which was hilarious. Lori was a hippie, Sid was a devil, Claudia and Josh were a redneck couple, Kristopher was Shaggy just to name a few. Seriously Josh and Claudia looked awesome. Claudia had a big pregnant belly and a blacked out eye. Josh had a mullet and tatoos. 
Everyone was asked to make a soup to bring in their crockpot. I brought a hamburger soup. Claudia made an awesome butternut squash soup and Lisa bought bread bowls to go with. It was fun to go around and try everyone's soups and fun to finally feel like eating soup since it is finally getting cooler. After dinner everyone had been asked to bring a game. We started off going Halloween caroling which was hilarious. 
It was great to see the neighbors faces when we showed up in costume singing Christmas carols with Halloween lyrics and then handed them a plate of goodies. I love my little owl in the background. 
Then we headed back to Lisa and Lonnie's house and played a little bit of musical chairs. Watching adults, competitive adults, play musical chairs was extremely entertaining. 
Hunter ended up winning with a little help from the adults. Emma snuggled up on every persons lap at least once. 
Avery had fun running around with all the cousins. Next it was on to the mummy wrap race. Josh and Deke raced to see who could wrap their wife up faster. 
I must say Deke did a very thorough job. 
Mom wrapped Eden, Eden wrapped Ave and GG jumped at the chance to wrap Papa. 
Then on again to our pumpkin relay which was even more hilarious with this bunch. I love this picture of Bly and Avery it cracks me up.
On the other side Ramsay was having a hard time getting the pumpkin from Claudia. They kept trying and trying but Ramsay couldn't stop laughing. They finally got it after the other team had already finished. 
Then Claudia had brought a tricky game where you try to thread ten needles in a certain amount of minutes. It was really hard. Then we all visited and sat around and ate candy. Grandpa told us a scary story about great Grandpa Hatch.
I loved this story as a kid and it was so neat to watch my kids hear this story for the first time: My Great Grandpa Hatch was taking a herd of sheep from Montana to Susanville, CA. One night he stopped along the way at an old ranch. He stopped by and asked the rancher if he had or knew of anywhere that he could keep his sheep locked up for the night. The rancher told him that there was a ranger cabin along the way with a pen to keep his sheep. Grandpa walked down the road aways and saw the cabin. It was old and had four walls but instead of a roof there was only bare rafters. By the time Grandpa got the sheep all settled in and locked up for the night he was getting pretty hungry. It was getting dark and with only rafters Grandpa could see up into the sky. He decided to cook himself some bacon and started a little fire. As the bacon started to cook he heard a weird cackling sound almost like a laugh. He looked around but didn't see anything. He continued cooking and then heard the cackling laugh again even louder. Starting to get concerned he looked around again this time looking up into the rafters above. When he looked up by the light of the fire he saw an old woman with long white hair drooping down hanging from the rafters and laughing wildly. Grandpa screamed and took off running down the road as fast as humanly possible. He said that like characters in the cartoons he is sure that he left an imprint of himself when he burst through the gate. He ran as far as he could down the road until he was out of breath and stopped for a minute. A car was coming up the road and stopped. The men inside where from an asylum in the neighboring town and asked if he had seen an old woman anywhere. She had gotten away from them and they were trying to track her down. Grandpa explained that he thought that she was down the road back at the ranger cabin. Sure enough it was her, they think that the smell of the bacon enticed her to climb up there and take a look. Every time I hear this story I think about how scary it would be to see a person laughing wildly and hanging from roof rafters. An actual real scary story. Poor Grandpa for the experience but his many generations love hearing about this story. The party was wonderful. We have a wonderful family. Halloween is almost here.
No comments:
Post a Comment