Adobe Halloween Event

On Friday, the family and I attended the annual

Adobe(Omniture) Halloween Event.

Katlin is now up with the executive branch.

This event has become bigger and better each year

although, is is amateurish, it's

great to see how

creative the different departments can be.

The community comes out in full force and

dresses in full Halloween costume.

The Safari Girls

Dallas and friends

Joel(AKA) Steve Jobs

The belated Steve Jobs

Tess, my niece aka

Jessie and her son..

Reily.. aka..Woody

Adobe's different department plan and execute

their "theme" for this haunted event.

"Where The Wild Things Are"

Story time:

Dr Seuss

**I found these little green people

somewhere between Harry Potter and Toy Story.

Harry Potters:

Wizzard room

Toy Story:

Katlin as Barbie and Ken was a tad gay.

Alice in Wonderland

-this dept spent the most money.

It was located outside and had elaborate

scenery and decorations.

Corn Maze:

I give this one the award for original scare.

There were over 5,000 attendees,

ice cream cones, cotton candy, popcorn, and of course

buckets full of candy!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Yummy Pumpkin Donuts

The aroma will "stir your senses",

while these donuts are baking.

~

My caramel apples for 2011:

toppings are:

Roasted pecans chopped,

Dark chocolate,

Crushed Oreo and chopped roasted peanuts

Toasted coconut.

Halloween

is only...

day away......

Weekend Warriors

I have thought that the "swede" and I should be on the HGTV show;

"Weekend Warriors"

We are "do-it-yourselfers"

Call it.. crazy, call it.. frugal, call it..a challenge,

call it..validation..

call it whatever you like...

This is our latest project:

The re-face of our 1994 home

Check out the right corner

poor construction of materials left the

face swollen, mushy and peeling paint.

The face front had this look just a little to long and so

with some heavy pleading before the winter weather hit

I got the troops aka ....Joel F, Me and the swede together,

we began to make lists of materials

that were needed to begin this project.

We demoed all the pressed board, chair rail and

other decorative pieces down to what you see in this picture.

(windows were left intact)

Here is is the other side of the house

(my kitchen window)

We papered and taped all the windows

primed twice.

The swede doing his balancing act

painting the completed face lift.

3 finished coats of paint.

The guy knows what he is doing, did I mention that

one of his many talents were at one time in

his life, a professional painter.

I was his "spot person" while he climbed two and half stories.

He literally developed huge muscles moving that

tall ladder from one side of the house to the other.

Here is the finished results

Beautiful..

-the challenge was met, -the savings on labor...priceless!

Now on to the next...of many projects...!!

Halloween Retro blog

If you are a child that grew up in the sixties and seventies

you will love this Halloween Blog, check it out.

I have had many people ask me if I am going to have

my Halloween party this year..

I keep telling myself that:

1. decorating inside & outside of

house for this event takes days.

2. food prep- a day

3. making a costume- a day

4. games and party favors- a day

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"I just can't do it this year"!

(and so I will disappoint my friends and their children.)

I am going to take this day off

and celebrate

by

preparing a frightful meal and anticipate all the

little ghouls that will ring my doorbell.