The Halloween Crazies

The Halloween Crazies have struck the Colwell House! Hardcore. We have had the inside decorated for awhile now - there are pumpkins, withes, goblins, bats, ravens, candy corn and zombies throughout every level of our house. Finally the time came this weekend for Chris to decorate the outside and put up the lights. Yes, we have Halloween lights. We are the Clark Griswold of Halloween decorating. Jackson has been dying to do this decorating. If it was up to him, our house would be decorated for Halloween starting right after July 4th. We all got into the act - putting up pumpkins outside, decorating our outside pug (an awesome donation from Cooper & Johnny), hanging up witches and so much more. The kids were having a blast!!! This past weekend was just awesome! The soccer game, the decorating! We also went to Illumifest which could have been cool if we had gotten there earlier and/or were willing to wait in monstrously long lines. Illumifest is a new West Des Moines Fall Festival and everything was free - inflatables, lanterns, glow sticks and carnival rides. That translates into HUGE lines everywhere. Also, since we have 2 kids to get into bed at a halfway reasonable time, we did not even get to stay until the lanterns were set on the lake and we did not get to stay for the fireworks which I am assuming were at 10pm. In a few years, this festival will be cool - lit lanterns, glowsticks, hot air balloons, all at night plus fireworks sounds like a pretty fun way to spend a nice cool fall evening - especially with a band and beverage tent and deliciously bad for you food from vendors. Since we were too late to get glow sticks or paper lanterns, we took the kids home and had our own Illumifest in our driveway with our own glowsticks which was cool but our neighbors probably thoughts we were loons. Oh well! Anyway, we are preparing for another Halloween Party that Jackson - The King of Halloween - has begged me to allow him and Jessica to have so that is taking up a lot of my time but it should be a blast. I can't wait to blog all about it! Have a great week!