Monday, November 4, 2024

Halloween 2024

I prefer taking tenkor on the path behind the school because there’s less chance of running into other dogs and the mayhem that comes along with that. 

Alli brought me this new sody. I don’t think it tastes much different than a regular Coke Zero, but the different flavors are fun. 

Delaney’s 7th grade pictures. I’m looking forward to an end to the closed mouth smile era. I used to always buy school pics, but now I just get individuals when we get our family pictures. 

We hosted our annual pre-trick or treating dinner. It’s funny how through the years our LG group has grown and shrunk many times over. This year we’ve got 2 new families and everyone was able to come, which made for 32 people! Fun and crazy but unfortunately our hosting area is kind of small. So I worked all week to move all of our basement stuff from the formal dining room to the garage, just in case we needed to spread out that way (we didn’t). 

Thankfully it was warm warm warm and we were able to keep the sliding glass door open and all the kids ate outside. 

I made up the menu and prepped all day, then the girls helped when they got home. Frankie made the veggie tray skeleton. 

Adi made pizzas from scratch with ghosty cheese. Michelle brought over the beautiful Nutella tree. 

I made nachos and Frankie drew the sour cream spider web. 

Delaney helped set everything up and bake the taquitos and chicken nuggets and witch’s brew punch. 

Someday we’ll have a nice hosting backyard. In the meantime, we have this and lawn chairs. 

I didn’t have my phone most of the night, so of course this gem was in my camera roll. 

I had invited the sister missionaries because I figured it would be fun for them to pass out candy with us. It was fun to chat with them and I’m glad they weren’t just sitting in their apartment. Warm Halloween, friends, missionaries, it was wonderful. 

It was a weird Halloween in that Delaney was our only trick or treater. Frankie didn’t even get a costume, she just couldn’t decide. She picked little costumeish things from our stash for parties, but not anything new. Adi was a witch, but didn’t want to go trick or treating. They just watched a movie instead. 

This beauty came up in my memories and Delaney agreed to recreate it, so I sent it to Sarah and Ellie agreed too. I can’t believe these 2 were babies together and now their big girls, almost women. 

Thankfully Sarah got the shot while I was hostess-with-the-mostest’ing. Loved ‘em then, love ‘em now!


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