even though amy says that ONCE HALLOWEEN IS OVER NOBODY CARES ANYMORE, i thought i’d post these post-halloween photos i took on saturday morning after the party.  things weren’t really horribly messy because bev had done so much cleaning on friday night and kevin did more cleaning before i got up on saturday.

here are mom and dad’s two fabulous prizes that they weren’t there to receive.

this is my halloween tree, which i always wanted and then found one but i wonder if anybody even noticed it in the living room since people continued to cluster in the kitchen and the dining room.

kevin is resting after all of his cleaning work.

here’s a wide shot of the mantle.  kevin bought me that fireplace screen for our anniversary.  it looks really cool when a fire is lit.

this is another of my favorite decorations, a tealight house.  that thin on the left is this little holder filled with miniature swords.  dad gave it to kevin for his birthday, and nobody has ever seen anything like it.

the glass thing is an antique wedding basket belonging to my parents which i always coveted and mom and dad gave it to me when we got married.

dad gave me these two blue figurines.  they’re actually planters but i’ve never planted anything in them.  yet.

i worry about breaking that plate whenever i dust.  luckily i don’t dust very often.   kevin only has eight more working days and he continues to be in a state of excitement and impatience for it to JUST BE OVER ALREADY.  next to the plate is a castle he got somewhere and he also has another castle that mom broke a turret off of when she was driving it to our new house.  and then i managed to damage it further when dusting.  so i’m also nervous about this castle.  yet another reason to avoid dusting altogether.

some friends of randy’s showed up late in the evening and the guy was running for the county board.  neither he nor his wife wore costumes, and i watched as his wife tried to surreptitiously drop a couple of cards on the dining table.  why was she being so secretive about it?  and did she really think that the last people left who were all pretty drunk and/or tired would pay any attention to the cards?

amy was, as usual, queen of the dancing here on the screen porch.  all that was left the morning after was her red feather boa and some random bits of feather, scattered there on the floor and also all over the house.

this is my MOST favorite halloween decoration.  dad bought it at bob evans and gave it to amy and i’ve coveted it since she got it and she gave it to me this year.  it’s the only decoration that’s still up now and i may keep it up all year long.  but maybe no because i bet the light would burn out and hen i would be very sad.

our pumpkin man stuffed with leaves looked a little droopy this year, and by saturday morning he looked like he’d had way too much to drink.

mollie continued to scrounge around for food on saturday morning.  because i didn’t start decorating and planning the party early enough this year, one thing that slipped my mind the day of the party was MOLLIE’S COSTUME.  so all she had was her halloween collar.  she was in doggie heaven anyway, even though she wasn’t even wearing her halloween cape.  i bought her a princess leia costume but it was too big for her and she could step right out of it and she HATED the wig.  so maybe it’s better that she was costume-free.

ok, that’s all the halloween photos.  we went to the missouri botanical garden on monday for david’s birthday and i took many pictures there and i have many things to post but no time now.

ok then,

thursday grace.