Miller Moments: Ghosts and Goblins and Monsters Oh My!!

The 1st annual "Fright Night" at my house is officially over but what an AWESOME night it was! Keep in mind this is our first one so we already have plans on making this bigger and better next year. The evening started around 4pm when the decorating begun. About 5 minutes into the decorating my neighbor (the one from across the street that does her own little production) came over and asked "What are you guys doing? What is that?" Mind you, I NEVER met this woman in person but she felt inclined to come over and see what we were doing. HA! Love it! I'm sure she will try to outdo us next year. Anyway, we continue getting ready and people are already driving by the house real slow, breaking their necks to see what we are doing. The excitement started to build up at this point. 6pm hits and we are ready to go. I wish that is was DARK at 6 but we had to wait another 30 minutes for that to happen. The first couple trick-or-treaters did not get the full effect since it was not dark and the fog machine, strobe lights, and animated props were not visible at that time. It didn't take long and it got dark and people were coming from all over the place to check it out. Jen was a zombie laying in the graveyard to start the haunted house experience for the kids...they would FREAK out when Jen started to "come alive" (mostly because they did not see her lying there). As they were freaked out by Jen and watching what she was doing...I quickly jumped out from a near by bush scaring the CRAP out of them. A lot of the kids turned around and ran away screaming at that point and they didn't even get up into the porch. The brave ones that did keep going walked up onto the porch holding hands afraid to see what was next. The porch was covered in fog from the fog machine but they kept going only to be greeted by Dr. Demented and Leatherface (from texaschainsaw massacre) in the "Chop Shop" cutting up body parts. Dr. Demented would then reward them for making it through the house by giving them gummy body parts to eat. Some kids were too scared to get their treat and ran out of the porch to safety. However, the kids were not safe quite yet...Brad (another zombie) would be hiding in a bush right outside the porch sending them running down my driveway in fear! I remember one little girl got pretty scared (not in a bad way...she wasn't crying or anything) and she curled up in a ball on the front porch. She did make it through the rest of the house but she laughed about it when it was all over.

We had parents clapping at our performance and people were taking all kinds of pictures. Jen and I even got hit with a bag full of candy from a kid who got a little too scared. The kids were talking all about it walking down the street to the next house so I know we set ourselves up for next year. Below are some pictures from the night. These pictures do NOT do it justice though...I really wish I had a video camera so you could really see how it was all put together and hear all the screams we got that night.

Dr. Demented walking up and down the sidewalk giving a little taste of whats to come.

It's almost 6 o'clock!!

Leatherface is all ready to chop up some body parts!

The Chop Shop is open for business.

What can we get you?

Our latest victim!

The Chop Shop owners!

Oh no...the zombie is coming alive...

Brad waiting for his next victim!

Our friendly witches who were our guides for the evening...letting kids know where to go and giving out candy to those too scared to go through the house.