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More Early Halloween Festivities...

Today we had our Halloween costume contest at work and also awarded the winner of the office/cubicle decorating contest. Here are some pictures of our fun from today. In case you can't spot me, I borrowed Brynn's Maleficent horns and went as the scary witch myself.. I am to the right of the bunny, in front of the cupcake in the bottom row. The bunny did a wardrobe change into Snow White later and won third place, Karmell the cupcake won second and the garden gnome in the middle took first. That scary head thing next to the referee is not actually a person, but part of the decor. The cupcake and the nun won on the collaborative decorating effort. Their decor is everything that is behind us as our backdrop. It was just fantastic. And so much so that no one else felt they could top it and they ended up being the only ones who decorated. So, they took first, second, and third on that prize!



We all got in front of the backdrop for individual pics as well.

Later in the afternoon everyone's kiddos started arriving to 'trick-or-treat' at the office. It was so cute seeing the little ones dressed up too. My two are to the left, kind of in the back.



I tried to put Crazy Clara to work while she was the office, but instead she wedged herself in between two cabinets. :-)


Tonight was the Fall Festival at Brynn's school. Since they aren't allowed to wear their costumes to school during the day, they hold the Fall Festival in the evening and everyone is welcome to wear their costumes then. We played Bingo first while we ate pizza and then Rosha showed up, even though she goes to a different school now! So, Brynn was pretty excited about that, as she was just lamenting on the way over how she wished Rosha could be there tonight too. So, they played some other games and danced at the dance a little bit.



I think we should have dressed her for a monkey for Halloween instead of an elephant. ;-)


Friends at the dance

Brynn helping her teacher with a game at the end of the night. She won the lanyard and t-shirt playing games.

It was such a nice night, so Brynn rode her bike home and I walked. Hoping for great weather again tomorrow!

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