Halloween Hauntings!

WOW! The past few weeks have been a whirlwind of insanity in the Bunn household.

We've been SUPER busy with Ghost Story Tours for our Bus Tour Company that we haven't had time to do much else.

I am excited to report that we did pretty well. The last two weeks of October were pretty full and we even SOLD OUT one night!!!

Halloween night we had a private charter for some high school girls. Our task was to take them from Johnson City out to a party in Piney Flats (yes, it is every bit of the middle of nowhere that it sounds).

Well, we decided to up the ante a bit and with the help of some friends, we staged a zombie attack of the bus on our way out there. It was SPECTACULAR. The bus "broke down" and we had to pull over into an abandoned park that sat beneath a large electric tower. The picture to the right is one of our female zombies that night!

Whitebread played the part of the dutiful bus driver charged with saving us all! In the middle of the attack, he pulled a chain-less chainsaw out from under one of the bus seats and set out to desecrate the souls of the undead!

It was really well scripted. By the side of the bus two zombies ate the guts out of another zombie (which just happened to be my dad). The guts were panty hose filled with cherry jello. It was rather realistic!

At the same time a VERY frightening zombie kept trying to get the door of the bus open - I nearly wet my pants trying to keep it closed and one of the girls in the back of the bus DID wet her pants! It was HILARIOUS!

We did not take our kids Trick or Treating. But they did get dressed up. Our town hosts a "Trick or Treat" on Walnut street - where all the businesses hand out candy to kids the day before Halloween. We drove the bus down to that and handed out candy in the parking lot. Loki and Elora (I mean Top Gun Tom Cruise and Little Ms. Strawberry) helped. There were SOO many kids, that even though we had purchased nearly $50 worth of candy - we ran out before it was over.

I'm still off dairy - BUMMER (as Loki would say). I keep testing small amounts of dairy to see if Elora can tolerate it and so far, the answer is NO. I'm hoping she'll out grow this. Otherwise, it's going to be a LONG year of breastfeeding (if she makes it that long - or perhaps I should say, if I make it that long)!

As noted above, Loki is talking up a STORM. It's RIDICULOUS. He's also getting into "parrot mode" where he repeats anything and everything he hears. It's rather amusing, until Whitebread or I forget that he's listening and blurt out a curse word. We've really got to watch our language. I'm sure the daycare teachers would not approve of our toddler cursing at them.

We hosted my Grandma's 85th birthday party on Sunday. It was such a rockin' good time that she passed out and we had to call the life squad! She stayed in the hospital for a few days but is home now. They think she was having a reaction to some of her meds. It makes us all very happy that she moved down here.

And I thought I should share that Elora and I received a fun little package in the mail - days before I ruined my Surprise 30th Birthday Party.

The package was GREAT! 30 little black Lost State Tour buses! I may put this picture up on our Facebook page! And a secret message to boot!

Elora got the CUTEST tutu EVER (there will be many more pictures of her in this)! Stay tuned...

Whitebread tried to throw me a Surprise Roller Skating Party as a belated 30th Birthday present. While it would have been AWESOME for sure, the timing is really bad with everything we've got going on - that and at this point, I'm kind of over my 30th. It's just a little anti-climactic 3 months later. But hey, there's always 33 right? (I'm not ignoring 31 or 32 but by 33, I'm thinking that I can party without the worry of needing to look after Many Small Children - cause they will all be able to take care of themselves by then, right?) :D

And one more fun pic of the kids together, just to make you smile!