Our Haunted Dinner!

Last year, we started a tradition in our family of having a haunted halloween candlelight dinner. This year we had a lot of fun! This was our menu:





Headless Ceasar Salad (wasn't Julius Ceasar Beheaded?)

Pumpkin Brain Stew: Baked inside the Pumpkin!

Goblin Toes: Parmesan Rolls

Bloodshot eyeballs: Red Grapes

Fresh Vampire Blood: Red Kool Aid


Dessert consisted of Chocolate brownie Coffin Cake with Bone Meal Cream.

This year we lit candles in skulls to set the mood while we were eating. And what haunted dinner would be complete without the "Scary sounds of Halloween" CD playing? It was a lot of fun. So, we hope you'll come next year to :


The Holmgren Haunted Mansion
Where we love your guts so much, we'll eat them for dinner!

A Halloween Ghost Story

I always love hearing Halloween Ghost stories. And they are especially chilling when they are true. This happened here in little Cedar City on the street I live on! Prepare to be spooked.
A friend of mine works at 911 dispatch here and was telling me this story. Yesterday at about five pm, a man here in town who lives a ways up the road from me called 911 because his dog had brought home a shoe...with a FOOT in it. Now, apparently, dispatch gets this type of call relatively often where people call saying they have found a bone or some type of remains of a body and it always turns out to be of animal origin. However, after seeing the shoe and the remnants inside the shoe, the crime lab confirmed this to be a human foot. Which means that unless someone out there is missing a foot,(Which, apparently there are no reports of anyone missing one around here.) there is a body somewhere. It makes this story even more frightening that the foot was very decomposed meaning that it had been out in the elements for a WHILE.
So, the local search and rescue was called out to use cadaver dogs to locate the body, which they were able to find last night without much difficulty. (I think they are hiring, would anyone like a shot at THAT job?) They were able to identify the body, and the person had been missing for over a year. However the person is not from this area and it is unclear whether any "foul play" occurred.
So basically that's all I know. Ghost stories are best when they have an unresolved disturbing ending right? Can I mention again that this happened on my street? Yikes!

Hmmmm...what to be for Halloween?

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What is it about Halloween that makes me feel like we have to "out do" last years costumes? Last year we procrastinated putting together our costumes so at the last minute we were running to the store buying bells for my tinker bell costume,(I wanted to jingle everywhere I went.) and getting white duct tape and tighty whities for Davids super hero costume.(Can you see that he is Syndrome?) Fortunately, my mom already had Mckinleys little witch costume, which was mine when I was younger.
I think almost every year, I have been either a witch or a gypsy because I have always had the stuff. Although, I vaguely remember being a ballerina,(brrrr!) and a Bride(8 years old is not too young to get married on October 31st.)
But this year, look how good I am being! I am actually putting some thought into Halloween before the day of, I even have my Halloween decor up already. This Halloween is going to be GOOD. The costumes are going to be frightfully terrifying, the sloppy joes are going to be...sloppy, heck, we might even spike the rootbeer.(but probably not.) So this is your warning, 22 days or so in advance. Beware, and prepare to be spooked. I'd turn back if I were you....