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Happy Halloween!



Hello friends!

It looks and feels as if Autumn has arrived here in our neck of the woods. We've had our first snow and it's been chilly some nights. The trees are turning yellow and red, leaves are falling. And that means Halloween!

This is the second year Jack has been trick-or-treating but the first year he's really caught on to the concept. Luckily we live in a neighborhood with lots of friendly folks and many porch lights on.

Not to mention the fact that not only do people Scott knows from the office live here but so do Grandma and Grandpa C! So we went over to Grandma's house and ate some dinner. Then Jack helped hand out candy & popcorn for a while and we stopped at houses on the walk home.

His costume choice was a funny adventure in and of itself. We went to Once Upon A Child to see what they had for costumes. Before we got there, he was going to be Spiderman. There were no Spiderman costumes to be had at that store. But there were lots of ladybug costumes! And Jack loves ladybugs. You may think its silly but it's really not.

1: they are bugs and boys like bugs
2: they are red, like Spiderman and Lightning McQueen
3: they eat other bugs - ferocious!


Anyway he decided that he wanted to be a ladybug and so did Logan. It ended up being really cute and everyone liked it when we stopped at doors.

In other news, I am a year older, but we had fun at my birthday lunch anyway!


Hope you had a happy October too!

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