Halloween Party 2009 - The Guests, Part 1

At long last, I am finally getting around to posting our guest pictures. I'll probably do this in several different posts, as I am a little concerned with trying to post 85 pictures in one blog entry!

I'll eliminate most the names to protect the innocent! Ha ha! I will identify our "production crew" as they certainly deserve special recognition, and certain other special guests.

Here goes!
The Happy Hosts - me and Chief Hubby (I made his costume, and rented mine.)
Val, from "My Boo Bear" and very special guests, all the way from Italy - Simona and Marco from "Paco, Milo and Maya's Blog"
Merrill, Harley's Poppa was able to join us too!

Bear and her cowboy buddy.

"Stretch" and General Custer

A douche bag (hey, that was his costume!) and Amy Winehouse.

Little Bo Peep, and her Hubby with the Sheep!

I LOVE kilts!

B & D - our awesome neighbors and incredible production crew partners. "D" is our construction foreman, along with Hubby.

Shirl and General Custer - more of our fantastic production crew, and artistic genius

Lisa - all around production crew assistant, chief of crew catering during the production, etc.

"J & J" - new additions to our production crew this year. The "tall dude" was given lots of special "tall dude" assignments.

The guests continue....

Happy Birthdays!

Another worldwind week for our family is upon us...Bear turned 23 on Monday, and AJ's 17th birthday is today! Wow! Wasn't it just yesterday when they looked like this?
and this?

Saying they've come a long way is putting it mildy!
Happy Birthdays to two of my wonderful loves!

Howl-o-ween Pooch Party, 2009

Some of my Golden Group members made this awesome slide show of the Golden Retriever Costume Party I hosted this past weekend. I thought they did such a great job with it, I asked if I could post it, and they graciously agreed.

Enjoy!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Thanks Vivien and Rey for letting me share this with the blogging world!
(Yes, that's me at the end standing on the bench, looking like a dork, announcing the winners...)

A-Z Mondays, "J" is for Jack and Jill

Jack - as a baby....

...and Jill

My first two Gorgeous Goldens!

If you'd like to see what other bloggers are doing for A-Z Mondays, be sure to stop by Jen's blog here.

Halloween Party 2009, Part 4 - The Last of the Decorations

At last, a little bit of down-time to post some more pictures. Yesterday's Halloween Pooch Party was a huge success, and I'll be posting pictures of that soon, but for now, here are the backyard, saloon, and Ghost Town pictures....among others.


Daytime pictures...the morning of the party.
(This is what you saw as you came out the swinging saloon doors from the haunted lodge.)
More of the backyard.
Looking back towards the house.
The backside of the "mine" - the skeletons on the cart actually moved their arms up and down.

Inside the covered wagon, looking towards the ghost town.

Looking towards the actual saloon.

Just a little something roasting on the BBQ for our friends. (This looked great at night with the flame lights under it, and the rotisserie spinning.)

Looking back towards the pool....before the gaming tables arrived.

Our nicely stocked bar. We had over 300 test-tube shots in the "poison" bucket. We called them "Six Shooter Shots" and there were 12 different varieties.

An hour before the party. Game table set up and ready for action. You can see our jacuzzi in the background that became the stage for our dancing saloon girls.

My favorite thing I painted this year. He was part of our ghost town set.

More of my painting projects...

This stuff looks much better at night...
when the lights were glowing...
and things looked eerie.

Even the bar looked better at night

From the saloon, looking out toward the ghost town.

The dancing girls in action. (And yes, their legs really kicked up!)

The finished ghost town. The "2 Bit Ho-Tel"...complete with the "Ho's" hanging out on the balcony looking for action.

The stable and the bank, with a robber sitting out in front.

And last, but not least, Tom Sawyer on his raft...

I'll start posting pictures of the guests soon!