Happy Halloween, the 2009 Edition

This year, between the wreck of my house after the flood and the real life horror show of reconstruction and contractors, I really didn't have a lot of reserve left to plan Halloween. Add to that a husband with a crazy bad few weeks at work, and it almost left Halloween 2009 in the lurch.

Lucky for me, my son wanted to go as a dalek, and working on his costume got me in the 'spirit' of things.

There are LEDs on the helmet and yes, that's a whisk in one hand, a plunger in another.

He recorded the nasal twang of 'ex-ter-min-ate' on his ipod and he was good to go.

This is what the house looks like before Halloween:

And this is what it looks like after the transformation.

We had a graveyard with open graves that was supposed to be a lot eerier than it was, but the fog machines weren't effective--the huge amount of wind we had just blew the fog to shreds.

Luckily we had enough chocolate to stave off a mad zombie invasion. 

If you look carefully, you can see the shadow of my hell hound in the front door, guarding the portal. . . entrance to the house.

Perhaps next year, we will be able to rise to our usual standards, and my partner in crime won't be called into work on Halloween eve.