It’s Halloween! On October 31st, our school held a Book parade in which kids could dress up and parade around the school in the costume of the character of their favorite book. Ivy chose a Zombie Cheerleader from the book “My Little Sister is a Zombie Cheerleader”. She can be seen at 3:25 and 5:35 in this video…

After school, we went to Trinity Lutheran Church downtown for their annual fall “Trunk or Treat Festival” and scored lots of candy and food.

Then settled in for a night of Baseball watching as the Astros tried to beat the LA Dodgers in the 6th game of the World Series.

It’s kind of amazing how halloween has changed. I remember just being dropped off in a neighborhood and walking from house to house and gathering BAGS full of candy. No more of that! It is too dangerous these days to go door to door. So these Trunk or Treat festivals are pretty cool. A lot less walking, too. I like it. 🙂

Every spring and fall the Art Studios up the street from us do an open house. It’s pretty cool, I think. All the studios are open and you can browse room after room of art. They always have free munchies and wine scattered about as well.

This time I took 4 kids and they seemed to treat it a bit like Halloween – loading up on candy and treats at every studio. Of course, I sipped a bit a of wine at each stop, too.

I decided to sort and organize ALL of my photos that I’ve taken and kept for the past 2 decades…and it turns out I have over 24,000 pictures and 122 Gigabytes of data. Good lord!