The boys were pirates again this year for Halloween – yes, we were able to re-use last year’s costumes with even more excitement this year! As you saw in a previous post, we got a couple wears out of those costumes this year too with our kids run/costume contest and then on Halloween itself.
I picked the boys up early from daycare, which they were excited about, and we first headed over to visit my dad at his work. We trick-or-treated through his office (mostly for proud grandpa to show off his grand boys!) & took a break with him in his break room for some vending machine snacks – the boys’ favorite part! We headed over to a local veteran’s home after that to trick-or-treat and bring some cheer to the residents. (This was probably my favorite stop of the afternoon.) Afterwards we headed home to get ready to head out in our neighborhood. It was a cool evening but the rain they predicted did hold off, so that was great. We stopped at about a dozen homes up & down our street and then packed up in the truck to drive a few streets over to our friends’ that live near-by. It was dark by that point & they had a great fire going in their driveway – so we warmed up & visited for a bit before heading home for dinner.
We let the boys pick out a few handfuls of candy/treats that we kept for them to have on special occasions but we took the rest of the candy we collected to our pediatric dentist, who was paying $2 per pound for Halloween candy & sending it to “Operation Gratitude” which will be sent to our troops. A great cause & a great way to make this a fun holiday for Colton since he can’t have most of the candy we collected anyway with his allergy. Each boy walked out of the dentist office with $5 – that’s a total of 10 pounds we donated to our troops!
A Happy Halloween indeed!
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| Ready to trick-or-treat! |
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| Pirate Colton |
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| Pirate Wyatt |
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