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Halloween Preview & other October happenings

Isn't this cute with Clara in her piggy sleeping mask...well, probably not so cute in church! Haha. I don't know why she even brought her sleeping mask. Usually she is in Sunday School during the service, but over teachers convention weekend they were on a break. Clara must have taken that pretty literally. 



A couple of weekends ago our good friends who live in Fergus (Dana grew up with Adam who is sitting here at the table) came to town so I could take their family pictures and then came over to visit for the evening. The kids had such a fun time together and it was a great time catching up for the adults.



It was so warm a couple of Sundays ago we took advantage and went down to the orchard where I took the girls' pictures this spring. Instead of going through the orchard, we went the opposite direction after we had discovered some walking trails that go along the river.









haha!







I figured I'd better finally get this post up since Halloween is tomorrow and all! Clara is dressing up as a wolf. She's got her howl down pat!









Brynn is Hermione Granger from the "Harry Potter" series.




It was pretty humorous as in the books, one of the professors turns into a cat. There are also wolves throughout the story as well. So, I thought when the neighbor cat came over while the girls were dressed up, it looked like the professor with them, though in the story the cat is gray not orange. Oh well, close enough!




Last week the girls finished another session of gymnastics and decided to sign up for another round.





Last week I wrapped up my grower visits to capture drone footage and pics of soybean harvest for work  I found a kitty on my last visit. I was cracking up at the piece of grass stuck in his mouth.


I was so excited that at this same visit I got a combine ride. He had a pretty old combine so no real buddy seat, but I at least did have a tool box to sit on. This grower was coincidentally not far from Dana's parents' farm.



Last Thursday Clara's preschool class went to the pumpkin patch North of town. It was a chilly, windy day and I was rather miserable (parents could accompany their kids on the outing), but the kids didn't seem to be bothered any, of course.


These little chickens appeared to have escaped their pen. It really caused a stir with the kids...and the dog who was following us around.







Clara always likes to pretend she's a farmer. :-)






Last Friday was the fall festival at Brynn's school which is also their chance to wear their costumes to school since they are not allowed on the actual Halloween day.


This is Brynn's friend, also named Brynn. Her mom and I went to MSUM at the same time and had some business classes together. The Brynns also attend the Hope after-school program together. I think the other Brynn is in third grade.



It didn't take Brynn long to ditch me for her friends. I busied myself with numerous games of Bingo. I had to go back and purchase more tickets to get more cards and ran into Brynn and her cronies so I could snap a pic of them together.



I was trying to go for Blackout at the end of the night, but ended up two away from a winning card. Two students blacked out at the same time and it was sudden death Bingo!




Saturday morning was a Halloween party at Skate City. Dana took the girls and stopped at Brynn's friend's house to pick her up on the way.



haha. They had fun games and activities there.

Meanwhile, I was running errands and picking up some decorations for my office. This guy jumped into my cart, so he was coming with me. I will try to get some video or pics of my office tomorrow to show how everything came together. 


 At the school fall festival they had caramel apple nachos. They looked really good and I thought it was a fun idea so we had those for a treat while Brynn had her friend over.



Clara got to have a friend over on Saturday, too. Brynn and Cayden made a Halloween carnival for the little girls. It was so neat and Clara got super into it, of course.






The girls love to do this thing they made up called butt launcher. It's pretty hilarious.


Brynn making a toothpaste tube out of Play-doh.


We made ghost treats for Clara's preschool class. She really was more excited than she appears in this first photo. Haha.



I can't wait for Halloween tomorrow! I'll hopefully have a bunch of pics to post. Happy Halloween!

Comments

theweckerlys said…
Aw, wow so many great pics! Where did you get Clara's wolf costume? So cute. Brynn hit it out of the park with hers as well - so good! Love that pumpkin patch bus. Looks like the girls had fun with their friends. We love apple nachos, too, yummy! Very creative Play Doh toothpaste! I'm never very clever with my Play Doh creations :/

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