Witches, Devils, Ghosts & Goblins!

Happy Sunday morning to you all! And welcome to my newest follower! Thank you for your interest, and I hope you come back again and again :)

 It's CHILLY here this morning, and the cats were all snuggled up in an afghan in the parlor looking adorable. Then when they heard I was awake and the coffee maker started making its sounds, they were awake and running around playing with eyeballs! I have a big bag of ping pong balls that have an "eye" painted on them left from the Halloween party and the cats are going nuts for them. They run and slide and get crazy! Before you know it, their antics had Caitlin awake and our day has begun!

We had such a good time Friday night at our Halloween party. My son let me take his picture (which he rarely does) and that just made my night! You know how teenagers can be. Billy is 15 and prefers to take the pictures; not be in them! Lately he has been giving in though--he's tired of hearing his Mom beg and plead :) He's such a good boy.

All the girls came for games and refreshments ( I love that word) and it got pretty crazy. Nine year old girls know how to party and their high- pitched voices and screams could really break some glass! Oh boy. Just play some musical chairs and hot potato and you'll find out! The squeals and laughs were terrific though cause they were having fun! Those happy screams mean SUCCESS!  We played charades and did the grab bag too which was a big hit! It's funny how the girls will sing and dance in front of each other and be silly but when you play charades, they are too embarrassed to "talk like Dracula"" or "cackle like a witch" ???????? However they did love when they got the charades that said "act like you're a diva" or "pretend you just met your favorite pop star"---they're all over those two! Heck, not one of them would "howl like a werewolf" which I promptly did to show them how  :)      We had lots of fun and so many laughs.

Twelve girls all together and a few stayed for the sleepover. At nine years old, a lot haven't even done a sleepover at anyone's house yet so we were happy a few did stay. They were all nice, well-behaved sweethearts.  Here are some of the snacks we had besides pizza:

And this was all that I got to photograph...even more food  I hadn't even put out yet but God Bless them all: THOSE GIRLS CAN EAT! They had a great time and we were all happy! Plates of mac & cheese, fruit cups, pumpkin whoopie pies...all yummy!

Saturday morning after the last guest left, Aunt Linda,Caitlin and I went to a Harvest Festival at a nearby church. It was cute but very small and we didn't stay long though I did try a plate of Korean food from the food area. Not bad. I love Japanese and Chinese so I wanted to try it. Then we headed to the St. James General Store. We needed our "old fashioned fix".

The general store is the oldest, continuously running general store in the country. It was opened in the 1850's  and has never been changed since 1894 with the original counters, pot belly stove, coffee grinder and more. It's so fun to visit in Fall and Winter as the store is all decorated!It's only 15 minutes from my house so we go pretty often. The big candy counter has jars and jars of candy and the store smells of Yankee candles and a wood burning stove. They have new stuff and seasonal stuff but hey keep it the way it always was and most times the ladies behind the counter are in what they call "Gibson Girl" dress. I've blogged about the general store before it's such a family favorite. When we got home, my husband and son were back from where they were and they talked about going to Deepwells Mansion for the haunted house.

My little devil went with my husband and  Aunt Linda on Saturday night! There were no age restrictions so we let her go. It was a "scary" house. She couldn't wait and although I don't like scary, we let her go so that she would see what it was all about. She had the option to stay outside with my husband or her Aunt if she changed her mind last minute...but she went! They said it really wasn't scary.. on a scale of 1-10 and 10 being the scariest, it was about a 5. She screamed ALOT my husband said.....but she had a good time and ended up going in twice! Now she can cross that off of her list of "things to do..."!! I had opted to continue my after party clean up and watch "The Haunted Mansion " so I didn't go.  Thank goodness they all bought that excuse and let me stay...I don't like scary :)

Time for me to get going and get ready for Sunday! Have a great day!