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Halloween 2019

We made it through another successful Halloween!

Clara was able to bring her costume to preschool where they dressed up throughout the day. She told us they had to take their costumes off to eat, go outside and to the bathroom. So many cute ones in the bunch!



My work gang and me. The pickle kept cracking me up.

The kids were able to come trick-or-treating at the office again; always a highlight!


One of my co-workers put together the zombie body part game again. The kids really seem to get a kick out of trying to figure out what each item was.


I'm not sure how many years they've been doing it now, but Hope has a trunk or treat event in the parking lot of the church as well as some crafts and games inside. Clara knew her teacher (the unicorn below) was going to have a vehicle there and I knew my dad's cousin was as well as my boss's daughter who has baby-sit for us a couple of times were going to have cars there.

I cracked up because the Hope staff teachers did a cute Noah's Ark theme with the Hope van that they use to transport kids around. The middle teacher below was Clara's toddler room teacher and the one on the right is the kids programming director.


Kaytlin (my boss's daughter) had a 50's theme going. It was pretty chilly out, of course, and we weren't really bundled up yet, so we found Marcie and Jim and then took off for home to eat supper before our 'real' trick-or-treating.


Group shot! Brynn last-minute kind of updated her costume to be a vampire cat...or shapeshifting perhaps? ;-)


We went to our one neighbors' house which is typically the only one in our cul-de-sac that has its lights on for Halloween. Barb always has a special treat for the girls which usually includes light up wands so they can see when they're out going from house to house. Sadly, we don't talk to her or her husband much other than Halloween, but that night we did have a nice visit with Barb before we moved on. We were admiring her carved pumpkins on our way up to her door.


I think I mentioned that I'm in a mile walking challenge at work. Our group leader had said that we would earn an extra entry for a prize if we shared a photo of ourselves getting in our mile in our costume. So, I walked to nearby Briarwood while the rest of the gang drove and I made Dana take a pic of me along the way. Haha. So, I caught up with them over there, they decided the houses were too far apart, and Dana requested that we move to a higher density area. :-/ So, off we went to Timberline where they hand out the full-size candy bars.



Here we go!



We hit up one house in our old neighborhood which was looking pretty quiet by the time we got around there. The lady at the house we stopped at recognized us, though, so it was fun to catch up with her.

The girls got right to digging through their candy when we got home, even though it was late. (Dana did end up dropping Brynn and me off in Briarwood, so we went to one house and then ran home. Brynn thought we 'looked like idiots' running home in our costumes, but I assured her it was dark enough that no one could see us.) Clara counted that she had 97 pieces of candy and Brynn sorted hers out.


They've been busy the last couple of days trading and donating the non-favs to Mom and Dad. Then they came up with a 'guess the candy' game tonight which, of course, they were pretty successful at. ;-)


Comments

theweckerlys said…
Aw how fun!! I love that you went back to the old neighborhood. I remember when we came trick-or-treating there. Looks like the kids made a haul. Happy Halloween, Froems!

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