Hello and welcome to a Halloween-y post that I just couldn’t let go to waste despite it being horribly late as it is now the Monday before Thanksgiving! Things have been busy here between home projects, Hendrix + Sadie’s birthdays, school (for multiple family members) and trying to get – and keep – everyone healthy during what seems to be the season of perpetual sickness. If you’re reading this, thank you as always and I hope you enjoy this little look at our Halloween 2023 in photo form.
This year, like most others, we dressed up, decorated, paraded and collected as well as distributed bagfuls of candy that we actually managed to ration over the weeks since Halloween rather than eat all at once. Yay us! Ella isn’t pictured as she was away at school at the time but she’s always with us in spirit and subject to being sent plenty of photos she didn’t ask for. 😂 On Halloween, she spent the evening staying cozy while watching spooky shows and avoiding her college town’s extremely unCalifornian weather. Sadie was front and center as you can see above and insisted on being a grim reaper no matter how many times I tried to convince her to be a fairy or Wednesday Addams or really anything that wasn’t a grim reaper. I obviously lost and I’m glad I did because she admittedly made an adorable little harbinger of death.
As for Hendrix, his Fall Guys costume and the way he waddled around his school – and later from house to house – was the highlight of our Halloween. He was asked by a pair of parents to take a selfie during the school parade like a theme park character and he was recognized by a younger student who shouted “I saw that chicken at my school” as we were trick-or-treating. He even performed the chicken dance (with music courtesy of his dad + Spotify) for our neighbors and other trick-or-treaters which brought so much laughter and so many smiles to the evening. All in all, it was another happy, fun-filled Halloween for us all. I could go on but I told myself to keep this short so I could actually get it posted today so let’s get started…
Our skeletons enjoyed many sunny mornings on the porch this year and spent a lot of time hanging around the house too. Their favorite spots included the sofa, the dining table and occasionally the kids’ beds.
The bat swarm was back in the living room as well as other rooms in our house accompanied by hats and brooms and touches of witchy decor. The sleepy kitty is Salem (London’s little sister she never knew she definitely didn’t want 😅) who was given her name after finding her way to us just days after Halloween last year!
Floating candles hung from the ceiling for Halloween but will be making their way to the kids’ room to be repurposed for a special holiday theme that allowed the kids to keep their beloved bats and giant spider. More on that to come…
I really enjoyed decorating the kids’ spaces this year and was thrilled that they enjoyed it all too. The spider invoked zero fear in them and instead became a kind of watch dog that I think we’ll all be sad to say goodbye to when the time comes.
In early October, we visited Magic of the Jack O’ Lanterns for the first time and had so much fun seeing all the carved pumpkins and walking through their wonderful setups. I have a lot of video from that night so look forward to a potential Instagram reel for next year!
As is usually the case whenever we’re having a good time, I failed to take as many photos of trick-or-treating as I would have liked so these two will have to suffice. We did have a truly spooktacular Halloween and I’m happy to still get to share it even this far into the holiday season. If you’ve made it to this point in the post, thank you again and please enjoy this gif I made of our Hen and his famous neighborhood chicken dance… 😂
That’s all for this year’s Halloween scrapbook! Please let me know how you liked it and I’ll try to do more of these photoful (definitely not a word) posts in the future, in a more efficient fashion…
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