Spookfest 2008

Tee hee hee hee, Welcome oh spooky one!

This is our family photo of witches & Mad scientists. Lexi didn't want to put on her lion costume. You can't see Matthew's wig that well, but don't worry, I'll post a close up for Halloween!!!

Do you like how Lexi is holding a balloon string with no balloon at the top? That's because she had a green balloon and we were in front of a green screen :) She refused to put the balloon down for fear that she'd never get it back!! She also has her hand in Matthew's face because she wanted to take his fake teeth out. (Can't see those very well either, but you WILL!)

This year we had some absolutely amazing decorations. These bales of hay were fun to clean up!

We have a ghost coming out of his grave.

Lots of graves and lots of spider webs!

This hallway was pretty sweet with ghost balloons. The balloons had glow sticks in them and were covered in this cheese cloth and some were moving on wires. Cool! This is where the food was eatin, that is before we ran out! Oops! We even bought double what they did last year and we ran out. We had WAY more people show up this year than anyone had anticipated! It was crazy!

In each classroom there were different games for the kids to play and I thought this one looked like fun. It was some type of "Monster Operation".

Each hallway was decorated. And in this hallway you could put your hand in these bowls and feel gooey stuff. No I didn't put my hand in there, I just took pics.

This guy was in that same hallway and I think he was the coolest thing there! This whole hallway was dark, so you'll have to ignore the fact that my flash lit up the entire room! I think this person was standing on a table all night long. He was also at the entrance to the spook alley.

Enter if you Dare!!! This is the first year we had a haunted house (well it was a trailer outside, but same difference) and the kids all loved it. The lady that was in charge of it went all out and she did an amazing job. My kids LOVED it!

This is where I spent the entire night! I know I have all these pics, but that's because I left for a few minutes to get pictures before they took everything down! Just to give you some idea of what I was talking about tickets. We pre-sold over 9600 tickets and tonight at the event we sold over 6000 tickets. That's a lot of tickets and we were busy the entire night with nothing but tickets, oh yeah, and money.

This was an awesome fundraiser for the PTO and we're SO thankful to everyone who helped. There was the PTO board, the WOMAN IN CHARGE, her family, her sisters and their families, the decoration committee, the room moms, the University volunteers, the principal, the janitor, the lunch room employees, the husbands of all the women helping and I'm sure many more people that I'm forgetting to mention. It takes so many people doing there part to make this kind of event happen--and happen well!

Thanks, I won't be doing it again next year. That's for sure! Any takers? J/K, you know how I am, I'm sure I'll be there helping again in some regard next year. I'm a sucker for a party and for organization! See you then!

**Edited 11/6/08 Just to clarify, it was a school PTO event and not our church event. It was a fundraiser for our school. I was not the WOMAN IN CHARGE, Chris was. Thanks Chris!