Halloween preparations

The Friday before Halloween we were invited to our neighbors, the Steffens, for some Halloween preparation and their famous spaghetti chili - we normally only get treated to this on Snow days...

Judging from this picture it would appear that we live way out in the country, not in the thicket of the Baltimore suburbs, our house is directly out of frame on the left here - I promise...

Stuffing scarecrows is not for the fashionista, she sat there watching, singing and telling tall tales

This one is suffering from a teeny tiny attention deficit...

...but the boys finished it off
Finished product - let me assure you, there are NO crows left on our street