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This is Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

🎃our Halloween🎃

No worthy pumpkin patch near us and no time to take a field trip north so we decided the next best thing: Trader Joe's!
It was the best place we could go for pumpkins and all the treats. 
We let the kids pick out what they wanted.
 A cartload of fun happened.
 It was a fun family home evening!

little halloween things around the house

Audrey made this last year and she decorated her room with this and the candy corn garland she made for her bed :)


I unpacked the halloween stuff and put some things up on the mantle
haven't hung anything on the walls yet :)

the kids wanted a skeleton so we got one at home depot and named him Bobby Newport Bones.
 So far, he has lost an arm and a leg :)

Chester had a Halloween party with his new cub scout pack

dressing up for our new ward's party!
The little kids kept attacking Audrey's costume, haha



 Heading to the Hollywood Bowl for The Nightmare Before Christmas! It was absolutely fantastic. The movie set on screen with animation digital projections surrounding the shell of the bowl, full orchestra and original cast. The kids were blown away. LA has such a great scene for the arts. The best of the best performed.
 The kids couldn't get over it! 
Me neither. The music is still stuck in my head, haha.
I am so glad I got these tickets.
 Clay and Chester passed on it :)






My artist friend Cristen recently moved to San Diego and we were near each other at the show so we got to say hello and she got to meet the kids she did portraits for :)

Audrey loves all the traditions for Halloween. She loves pulling the guts out. Meanwhile, Chester couldn't take it and tried to bribe her to pull his pumpkin guts out for him :/

Boys with knives...cub scouts paid off...they talked about knife safety while carving


finished!
In birth order(left to right): Lucy, Henry, Audrey and Chester 
jack o lanterns 

the front door

a nice simple meal before heading out

Chester dressed up as Houston Texans Deshawn Watson

he trick or treated with his friend Stefano from school


AUDREY

Audrey and Nadeen

The older kids had friends over from church to watch a movie.
 It was a pretty fun night! 

And other things this month:
 we got season passes to Six Flags Magic Mountain!
(again, my 9 year old self would be VERY happy about this, my 47 year old self might make it through 2 rides, haha)

Chester had a day off of school so we headed to Ventura. It was stunning. We could see the Channel Islands.
 We have got to take a visit out there asap!


our backyard looks more like spring and summer not fall

this is the warmest place I have ever lived. I am so hot all the time. Then there is Clay. He is always saying he is chilled. 
It's pretty comical :)







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