Anoka Halloween: House decorating contest winner

And another big event there is the annual Home Decorating Contest, and the winners have just been announced. Wow, good drumming. Let's just say they're over the top and really something. Shane Wells is checking out one of the homes for us this morning. Shane. Good morning. We are giving you the sweet side of the House Decorating Contest with the winner of the Pumpkin Patch Award here in Anoka, which is kind of the rated G, family-friendly. And here's the family that created this one here. Thank you guys for being here. we have the Stephensons, so we have Matt, Melissa, Lachlan, and Sawyer. Sawyer, your name's right on front here. It says, I'm five and I helped do this. Tell us what part of the house decorations you worked on. The eyes and the teeth. But that looks like the hardest part. How long did that take? First, I helped like draw the teeth and it took us like 15 months to make. 15 months oh my goodness you guys have been working for a very long time I know but truly very impressive work there I hear you helped even paint the teeth those teeth look pretty good I feel like a dentist would be pretty happy with them how about your costume that we're seeing in right now tell us what you are are you an airhead he's an airhead the favorite colors favorite candy all right mom and dad you thought he was coming out dressed up as a dragon rider today surprise surprise he wanted to be the dragon actually the airhead thing he made last year which is one of his favorite candies and Lachlan's trying to take your touch your mic here Lachlan what are you going to be for Halloween we think a ninja turtle he outgrew his costume already so that'll happen okay Matt tell us like the decision to do the house decorating contest you said this is your first year uh yeah so we've always looked at our house and thought maybe those windows there kind of had an eyeball look to it so we thought maybe throw on some eyeballs and get some teeth on there and it looked kind of like a monster house and so you're right here has a lot of ideas for you about what you're going to do next year yes he's already talking about all sorts of things and we want to make sure we try to put a fog machine next year a fog machine too machine for sure yeah he's talking about the fog machine so you guys did great work It's very cute, very fun. If you want to go see some of these houses that were part of this house decorating contest, head to AnokaHalloween.com. You'll find there a list with all the addresses. What's your guys' address? 1318 Sunny Lane is how you can come see the Monster House thanks to the Stevenson family. And thank you guys for being here bright and early this morning. And with that, we'll send it back to you.