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Halloween 2024

Happy Halloween!

Clara was able to bring and wear her costume in her classroom. I just chuckled when I opened up this pic from her teacher. I love it. Lots of great costumes.

Heading into my office for trick-or-treating.





Soulja Boy drove separately and met us there. :-) 



I was so happy to get pics of them together.





Clara took off for Barb's as she was waiting for Clara to come over.







We had some dinner and then headed out to make our rounds.


So many people got a kick out of Clara's costume. It was pretty funny watching her lumber around the neighborhoods. At times, she'd just take off on a run. Haha.







It was a chilly, but nice and calm so we were thankful for that, but Clara still needed to warm up a bit with some hot chocolate when we got home.

I was so tickled to have some trick-or-treaters stop by! We NEVER get anyone stopping at our house and I get so bummed, but we still always have our lights on. Clara's friends, Cora and Violet, came so that was fun for Clara.

My candy stash donated by Clara to me. :-)

Brynn and Hubert took Abigail and their family friend out and they all trick-or-treated together. Brynn said they got lots of candy.

I cozied up and tried to decide which spooky movie I wanted to watch. I landed on the original Beetlejuice since I had just watched the newer one. Classic!


We decided to keep the fun going for one more night! Clara invited some of her friends over for a little get-together Friday night.


Preparations...








It worked out so well just to have them go wild out in the garage. They played bingo, bobbed for apples, did a mummy wrap contest and ended the night with a dance party. they all seemed to have a fun time. Not many of my photos turned out the best as we had turned most of the lights off out in the garage.











































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