Halloween Years of Fun

Halloween is in the air! One of my favorite times of the year. So many memories of Halloween to share.

I remember dressing up as Miss America one year when I was a young gal.

Then I remember dressing up as a Jester.

(My Grandpa & I) 

Then in my teen years I was a skeleton 

(Tiba in the musical Wizard of Oz too in High School) 

(Devil is Pat and I am the skeleton)

(My Mom designed this costume)

Then one year I dressed up as a Green faced witch and we decorated my Grandma's yard. The porch was enclosed all the way down to the end with black sheets we hung up. I sat all the way at the end in a chair, I sat still and held onto all the candy in my black cauldron. We had a sign for the little ones to come all the way down in there to get their candy. They were scared and many left crying. lol I frightened them. It was fun back then! (not able to find that photo)

Then there was another time I remember us kids decorating our place on Dewey St. with spider webs, grave makers, candles, and we even used one of those black tool boxes that you put in the back of your pickup, yes we used it as a coffin. Hahaha Those were the days. I have always wanted to be part of a spook house to scare others! LOL

I remember going to spook houses when Iw as a kid. One year I was scared to death of them but then down the road we went to several and they were a blast! I also remember the fun hay rides at the Olbrich's House every halloween and then having a Bonfire afterwards with the best hot chocolate ever! Halloween parties and bobbing for apples and more. Those were the days! FUN times!

(My sister and I)

In my teen years on up I started dressing as Vamps, She Devils, Witches and more scary stuff. I remember one time being a ghoul white ghost and we had black lights to make me glow. Wow those were some fun times! 

 My brothers dressed up in Snoopy The Red Baron Costumes, clowns, silly things. My sister was a Ewok one year. That reminds me that Ewok costume was carried down the line and even my son wore it one year.

(Pat, My son,Myself and my niece)

I remember dressing up as a Cat a couple of different times and I painted my face really cool. 

Cat 

Vampira

Ghostly

Wild

Then when I got remarried to my wonderful new husband Don. That is when we started dressing up too. He makes a wonderful "Grandpa Munster Vampire". Here in this next photo we were Gothic Vampires and believe it or not we won $75 one time in Red Wing MN at a bar with our friends Gene & Jody. It was fun!

"Grandpa Munster Vampire"

Then one year I wanted to be even more creative with our makeup. So I went to ebay and I looked for realistic Prosetic Foam Latex pieces and I found some great buys! Don & I were Vampires once again. SPOOKY!! I remember going to the Spook a Rama at LCO Casino in Hayward that year and this one guy couldn't stop staring at me and he watched me constantly. When I walked near he backed off LOL that was so funny. 

Found out that year what we could use for face paint instead of that cheap stuff from the store that easily comes off. You can use fabric paint "Creative" on your skin. So that is what is on our skin above. Cool eh? Did it wash off easy? Yes all we did was take a shower and it comes right off. You can also see the difference on our faces on this photo above and then go look at the Gothic Vamp looks. This one photo you can see that we have latex foam pieces added. We use a adhesive to glue it to our face. If you look at our ears we have pointed ears glued on also. Does it come off easy? Well I have special stuff to take it off or you can use rubbing alcohol too. Lots of Fun using these pieces! You can see the foam pieces here that we used:

Wild eh!!

That contest believe it or not we never won a thing! Those judges sucked that yr!They gave first prize to a Frankenstein guy that just stood by the wall all night long. Then another person that got a prize was a Mammogram box saying free mamagrams today.with guys head right there saying that he would check out your boobs with his mouth. what a joke that was! For us you would have thought we would have gotten something eh - we didn't! But we still had fun!!

After that we stopped dressing up for a few years and then when we moved to Arizona. We had a Halloween Party to go to at our Best Friends place. So we decided to dress up spooky like, it was all for fun so why not right! I was a Green Faced Witch and Don was a Vamp again. Since we had some latex pieces left from that one year we used them. This is the time that I got a nasty comment from a guy that said to my face and behind my back too. That how I was dressed wasn't Christian like. You know what happened to that guy after we moved back to Wisconsin in 2010? He was suppose to be a good friend and a very good Christian man in our little Christian family get together every friday night there. You tell me if he was such a good christian and he preached to everyone the bible scriptures, he taught sunday school at church, he came to me several different times before this party and preached to me about God and how I needed to call out to Him and so on and so forth! Then you tell me was if this same guy that sitting in prison doing time to this day for sexually molesting children that he is a true Christian?? He said to me that how I dressed up for Halloween isn't Christian like??? Ummm Excuse me Mr. what do you call what you did? I have dressed up for yrs on end and you know God has been there for me many times, I have had many of my prayers answered, angelic experiences, and more. I dress up for FUN only. I enjoy Halloween and dressing up but I am STILL a Good Christian Woman. Nothing wrong with dressing up for Halloween. But this guy?? He needs to sit there and rot in prison for what he did to several children and don't you dare preach to me I am not a good Christian Mr....

I had fun dressing up and you know what? I am still a child of God.

Ok well you are all probably wondering about that costume that I have been working on for over a month now for this year 2011. Well I will place it in my next blog tomorrow. I have taken photos of our outfits without us wearing them. I wanted to let you know that Mine was cheaper to make then Don's was and I bought his and it came with a mask. I hand painted and sewn everything on by hand on mine. It is a surprise and I am so proud of myself and you will be TOTALLY AMAZED what you will see with mine and how creative I am! I am still working on the wig and that will be done tonight also. Don has to be my mannequin so I can style it right. :-) 

Hint:

One of the cats from Cats the Musical - Mine isn't this one - just a hint

But remember I painted and hand sewn on mine. When I got it,

it was a all black unitard up to my neck when I bought it. Tomorrows blog :-) 

The Next Snoopy and The Red Baron!

Fall sets in the North Central States (Northwest Wisconsin):

I will keep this very short because after our ATV trip yesterday my right hand,wrist,arm, well my whole body is ajarred! Talk about exerise! Wow you move every muscles and bone in your body that's for sure!

First I need to clear the air here before I go any further...
Someone said to me one day that "if you are disabled you shouldn't be going atv'ing, snowmobiling, bicycling, and more activities like this." Ummmm wait a minute here! Who said that people like me are dead! We are still living here on earth ya know! We are human beings sometimes we pay for the play we did! Life goes on! Since when are you a professional Medical Doctor. If fact when are you MY Doctor? No I do not push a vaccum cleaner, no I do not do housework, no I do not wash dishes or do the laundry, no I do not rake the yard let alone do anything like that or more because those things I have been told not to do them by my MD and my specialists. But ATV'ing and those few other things I have been told by each one of them..try things and if they bother you as you are doing them, then by all means "Don't do them again, you have to know your boundaries and if you don't do them how are you going to find out if you don't." I even had a couple of docs say well at least you are getting some form of exercise. So please people if you think I shouldn't be doing what I have been doing all summer long and you are siitting behind your little desk and judging me for the things that I do, please don't because you have no idea what it is like to be in my shoes. I do what I can, when I can, when I am able to do them. These things only happen on my good days and my husband has to basically force me to get out of house so that I can be happy again. I don't want to hear it from any of you because you think I shouldn't be disabled and that I can go to work. My doctor knows all about me and what I have tried and what I haven't, I am under great medical care and your medical expertise is not needed. Yes sometimes I pay for what I do, like yesterday it was way to long on my ATV, so I learn make shorter trips or just don't do it at all. But guess what I am not giving up something that I love to do just because someone doesn't think I should be doing it, I go with what my body allows..that now is short trips because I will not give up my atv experiences. Please don't judge - we all struggle with our own health problems in our own ways. You have your own and I have my own. I deal with what I can and when I can.

Now on with my week & weekend:

I believe this is going to be our last beautiful warm weather week up here in the Northwest Wisconsin woods! What a wonderful week we have had! VERY NICE! The weather sure was Great! With temps from High 60's to 81 Degrees! Thank you Lord Jesus! We were sure blessed this week and weekend. So here I sit and work on my blog on a nice day outside already. 63 degrees it says here on my weatherbug stat on my MacBook Laptop and it will go up higher yet this afternoon. I hate to see it get colder, it is suppose to go down starting the middle of this week. Ugh - wellw e will have to take it as it comes that is for sure. The leaves on the trees are sure full of colors!! The popul trees in our backyard have practically no leaves on them (messy trees). That is something we sure didn't miss in AZ is the messy trees. thank goodness Don don't have to rake the leaves here! The Landlords are suppose to be doing that all, just like they shovel and plow the snow in the winter. (Maintenance free-you can't beat that.)

Good memory to remember:

I remember when I was a young gal and my Grandma & pa would take one of us kids each sunday to go out to eat with them after church. I remember going to Lake Geneva at some place to eat lunch. Then afterwards I remember Grandpa would drive down the Rustic Roads so Grandma & I could see the beautiful colors of fall on the trees. Grandma said Jesus was Painting the trees. I am so thankful that I had Grandparents that took the time to be with each one of us kids every sunday afternoon. I love them, right now they are up in heaven watching over each one of us kids. :-)

Now the Weekend Fun:

Don made a box for Rusty to sit in on the back of my ATV. We thought if this Amazing Wonder Dog could ride down on a river on a innertube, then he could do anything as long as he was by his Mama. Ok we now have a Official Red Barron Dog - do you remember Snoopy & Woodstock on the Peanuts? Well that is now Rusty! lol We just need to find doggie goggles and a Snoopy Red Barron hat for him. :-) Look for one on the internet for us if you find something let me us know. So here is that wonderful amazing wonder dog of mine!(Will tell the story under the photos now- if you want to see them enlarged for a better view click on the photos and it will make them bigger.) 

My Handsome Wonder Dog!

Do you remember this clip?

I love the Peanuts!

I am ready to go Mama!

The Golden Trail because of the trees (Actually it is called the Wild River Trail)

Rusty the Amazing Wonder Dog hits the spot light on this Blog this time!

We were half way to Birchwood when this was taken.

WOW the wind was strong today!

I Love this photo!(above)

Nose trouble

Beautiful isn't it! This caught my eye before we headed to Birchwood. So on the way back I just had to stop to take this photo! (Near Haugen WI.)

The Birches

Giving Rusty time off the ATV.

That WIND was strong today! Every time Rusty sat up it was like he was a parasail.LOL It blew us everywhere and it was a fight! 

But we made it through :-) 

Rusty is a 

AMAZING WONDER DOG!

I wonder what he is going to do next??

Dog Park Day!

I am going to get a break today!!

Well it is one of those days when Rusty has worked hard enough for me for the day. He has a BIG responsibility to make sure I don't fall, have PTSD attacks, Anxiety attacks and more. He has even picked up on another thing which I am so happy about. He is a Fantastic Service Dog for me. I my Rusty so much!

Every so often he needs time to be free to be himself in his dog world. So what do we do? We take him to the DOG PARK. Rice Lake has a beautiful Dog Park and the Girlscouts of America made the filed behind Best Western Hotel and Kmart a really nice place for the dogs to run around in, with their owners right there with them.

Every so often we take Rusty to the DOG PARK. Yep he has had all his shots to be able to go there and enjoy life in the dog world with other Doggies too. NO CATS ALLOWED!!

Yep NO CATS ALLOWED!!

Rusty is funny!! We could be just going to town and even if we don't go there that day, when we drive by that area he perks right up and looks around outside the truck windows. It is like he senses it is near and then he starts freaking out barking and wagging his tail and more. There was even one time this weekend he looked out the back window of the truck and stared off to the left towards where it would be and like pouted because we weren't going there at that time. But oh boy if we pull into the drive to go there he is like a little kid in a candy store. He wags his tail and starts doing a dance in the back seat of my truck. He even starts singing *laughing*. He won't even hold still enough to get his leash on even. Rusty and his Happy Dances!

That looks like my buddy "Lucky" from AZ! But it's not Lucky :(

This guy loved my Mama and he went by her all 

the time when he came around the circle with his Masters. 

Oh My Gosh what is that Black 

puff ball coming this way?!?!

Watch out Mama!!

This HUGE Labadoodle behind 

me has a mean streak in him

and I don't don't care for him at all!

Ok Mama & Daddy close is clear! 

Those Dogs are gone for a moment, 

so lets play toss the lease and I will 

go get it and bring it back to you, 

then you can throw it again ok? 

Here I come Mama!

Oh no I think they are coming back Mama!

I love to shake things back and forth just like my 

buddy "Mike" (Dog) did in Arizona!

I am so happy!

Come on Mama throw it one more 

time before the others get back!

Ohhhh I guess you are 

right Mama they are BACK!!!

Meet my friend "Meiko" 

She is a Husky mix and just a pup too!

I see Meiko a lot at the Dog Park 

and we run and play a lot.

Then sometimes there comes that 

time when one gets to excited

and the owners have to keep up 

after us. Mama & Daddy always 

hates this part LOL

So after I made a present for Mama 

I have decided to take a walk with my papa, 

because she didn't look happy! LOL

This park has a nice rocky trail for our Masters 

to walk on too and benches everywhere.

Running running!

I have to get where the action is!

So your the other one that loves my Mama!

Gotta run with the Big Dogs

Your cute! 

I wish you wouldn't jump on my Mama 

like that she might fall over!

Hey Sweety your Master is calling you!!

(White dog is a female Scottish Terrier)

Playing ball with my Papa

That is a really neat toy that Mama 

bought for me to play with. 

Mama doesn't have to hurt her 

arms to toss the ball for me.

It is called a "Chuck it" 

Mama throw the ball! 

Here is the FANTASTIC Toy we bought for Rusty!!

A Must for every dog that loves to play fetch!

Caught the ball in the air with my camera! 

Cool Shot!!

I am HOT and TIRED!

Is it time to go yet??

This is where I got help to train Rusty - press here to get the same thing I got
It is well worth it!