Halloween Recap 2024

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 Hello!

We had such a wonderful time last night, I was convinced that it might be a rough holiday due to high winds and rain, but even though there were high winds earlier in the day and it rained a little on and off throughout trick or treating, it was a fantastic evening!

We had our usual thursday pizza, thank you Kendra from the Lazy Genius for the encouragement to 'decide once', and then just before 6pm we all put on our costumes and headed out for some fun. Our first stop were our amazing friendly Lisa and Dustin who live right next door. We figured this would not only be fun, but would give us a chance to get a nice family photo and would be the least difficult for Jamie. Next was our awesome neighbors K & K who have always been so welcoming and sweet with the boys. We are truly grateful for our amazing neighbors!!!

Then we headed off down our street which is kinda 'the place to be' around Cincy for Halloween trick or treating! :-) Jamie was really happy, but the actual trick or treating just wasn't the right fit for him this year and so after a few houses he and Grant went back and hung out with Lisa and Dustin to help hand out candy and Leo and I went on quite the walk were he proceeded to be the cutest "Jaguar" that I've ever seen (apparently to him jaguars and panthers are the same... he's not entirely wrong as you can have a jaguar with black fur as well once I looked it up, but standard jaguars do look closer to a cheetah for coloring and spots than the solid black panthers that Leo is convinced of. 

We had so much fun and got some great photos along the way.

An elephant, alligator, jaguar, and tiger went up to a porch and said, "Trick or Treat!"

We love our community!

Such a "Fall" Halloween!

One of our neighbors goes all out on Willy Wonka every year and it is our favorite place to go!!!!

Photo Shoot! :-)

 

That's it for today, we are so grateful for our neighborhood!!!

💛 Jess

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