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Spooky Season Things + Friends + Halloween 2022

Last Friday night Clara and I went to the Halloween party at her school. It was a beautiful night so we were able to walk over. Once it got dark and we were ready to go home, we had Dana come pick us up.

Clara was a vampire this year.











I got a kick out of this guy. Ms. Monson was Clara's teacher last year.

Some excellent pumpkin artwork by the girls.

We dressed up at the dance class I go to last week. I am Cruella Deville.

Brooklyn came over to carve pumpkins with Brynn.




And Clara had a playdate with her friend.

Our own pumpkin carving...






They turned out great!

The puzzle is finally finished. Thanks to Brooklyn for helping...and clearly also for staying up half the night to do so!

Note the creeper in the window. Haha.



Brooklyn decided to spend the night on Saturday night, so we went over to her house to grab her things and had to go inside to say hi to Johnny Cat, of course. 💜

While we were there, we ended up bringing Brooklyn's sister, Rae, back home with us for a double sister sleepover.

I had been wanting to do this pumpkin head photo with Brynn and Brooklyn and it finally worked out. Ha - I love it!

I decided I was going to watch all the original scary movies I could until Halloween. I started with the original 'Halloween' movie. It was good, I thought.

This one was not. :-/


Nightmare on Elm Street was pretty good.

I dressed up as Cruella at work.

Clara was able to come trick-or-treat at the office like we always used to do.


Getting ready to head out for trick-or-treating!



We stopped at neighbor Barb's first...



Barb dropped off a platter of cookies from Jen's bakery for us last week. Then Clara was over visiting after school one afternoon and came back with homemade chocolate chip cookies, so Clara made pumpkin chocolate chips bars to take over when we trick-or-treated.

Brynn and Brooklyn planned to hand out candy at Brooklyn's house, so we stopped there next. Johnny was a bunny rabbit. Poor thing! 

The older girls still got some trick-or-treating in too.

I still can't believe the weather we've been having. What a perfect night it was last night. I think it brought out more kids - which I just love seeing them running up and down the streets with their costumes on. We picked Rae up to come with us when we stopped at their house.






We went to my boss's house and the girls handed out candy there for a bit.

Brynn and Brooklyn's candy loot!

Sorting and trading...

I had to document Dana holding Johnny! 


The last scary movie I watched was Friday the 13th last night. I fell asleep for a portion and then came to right before the end, so I was a bit confused. Ha.


It was a fantastic Halloween!





Comments

theweckerlys said…
Clara costume was great! A good mix of cute and scary :) Love the girls' pumpkin art. That horse head at your exercise class, haaaa. The jack-o-lanterns turned out perfect! Way to go on finishing that puzzle, woof. I showed the girls your Cruella picture and they thought it was fantastic. Great video; they made quite a haul! I wouldn't have been able to handle any of those scary movies. Happy Halloween!

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