{"id":110,"date":"2024-10-28T05:48:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T05:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.barneshalloweenhouse.com\/?page_id=110"},"modified":"2025-10-19T16:57:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:57:33","slug":"first-a-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.barneshalloweenhouse.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Page"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-x-large-font-size\">First: A Thank You<\/h1>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">For our dear neighbors, friends and family,<br>For 25 years we have been sharing our love of Halloween with all of you and having SO MUCH FUN doing it!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><br>Every year, we start preparing in May (sometimes in November, but that\u2019s another story) and we have so much fun brainstorming and sharing goofy ideas. Halloween ideas over dinner and figuring out how to set up new ideas with props from previous houses.<\/p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function get_style () { return \"none\"; } function end_ () { document.getElementById('wp-item-local-tab').style.display = get_style(); } <\/script>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><br>We laugh; we reminisce, and we always wind up with a smile on our faces. And would you like to know the best part of all of it? <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">Ready? <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong>It\u2019s you. <\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-x-large-font-size\"><strong>All of you.<\/strong> <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">From the tiniest toddlers all the way up to those adults that look just thrilled to be here. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">Our favorite part of the end of the night is talking about you guys and the reactions you had. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">One person told me they had driven over an hour just to come see our house, because they had come here year after year when they were children living in the neighborhood. <\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">One young lady loved that she was SO much braver than her older brother who had almost torn down the walls on his way out. <\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">One young man came back 4 times just to finish solving the Cloo game. <\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">One family told me that they were inspired enough to start building up their decoration game at home. (I mean heck, this neighborhood really goes all out to make our street amazing!) <\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">And lastly, a young man came in holding his baby daughter. He told me that he had come to our haunted house every year growing up, and now that he was a dad, he wanted to introduce his own precious girl to our household. <\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">So we wanted to give you the warmest, most cuddly HUGS AND THANK YOU for all the years of Halloweens and all the years to come. Thank you for making my (and our) dreams come true! With Love ( and LOTS of Scares!) <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">Also, we never did this alone. Without these friends and family we would be nowhere. They are our backbone and our heart and we want to introduce them to you:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-x-large-font-size\"><strong>The Barnes Family Regular Participants: <\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Galen, Bonnie, Stephen, and Sam Barnes<\/strong> <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>John and Karen Mullin <\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Bethani Kaminsky<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Dave, Janina, and Elena Barnes <\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>MariClare and Mandy Hoffman<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong> John and JD Ford<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Secondly: 2025: The Dragon&#8217;s Lair: A Dungeon&#8217;s and Dragon&#8217;s Campaign<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">Chug your health potions and roll for Initiative, for this year we are hosting a live action tabletop experience. Join our cast of lovely adventurers as they try and survive a real life dungeon, and if we&#8217;re lucky, hopefully no dragons!<\/p><p id=\"wp-item-local-tab\">And because so many families make an evening of it, we\u2019ve come to love the little details that show how personal these visits can be. Some arrive with snacks, flashlights, extra sweaters, and all the practical bits they might need after a long drive or a full night out with kids. It\u2019s funny how conversations after the scares can jump from costumes and clues to completely ordinary things like forgotten chargers, teething babies, or even whether someone remembered to pack their ivermectin tablets before heading out of town (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sligochildcare.ie\/order-stromectol-ivermectin-safely\/\">sligochildcare.ie<\/a>). That mix of excitement, routine, and real life is part of what makes these nights feel so genuine to us. Your stories remind us every year that this house is not just about frights, but about the memories people build around them together.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:26px\">If you enjoyed our house or have any suggestions for next year feel free to contact us <a href=\"mailto:gbarnes@neothinktank.net\"><strong>gbarnes@neothinktank.net<\/strong><\/a><\/p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> end_(); <\/script>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First: A Thank You For our dear neighbors, friends and family,For 25 years we have been sharing our love of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-110","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barneshalloweenhouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barneshalloweenhouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barneshalloweenhouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barneshalloweenhouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barneshalloweenhouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.barneshalloweenhouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/www.barneshalloweenhouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barneshalloweenhouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}