Halloween 2026

Halloween on a Saturday was a win! After soccer (5-1 loss) and hockey (6-0 loss) we went to the neighborhood party and followed it up with lots of trick-or-treating.

Doug watched Halloween on the plane back from Seattle. 

Prep Work

Julia re-paints the owls for the front walk

House decorations were a sort-of-fail. Other than Julia re-painting the owls, we didn't do a lot of prep work ... we didn't even have a pumpkin this year. We did have ...  

• A witch was flying across the sky on a rope between the flagpole and the pine tree. The spotlight lit up the scene.
• Oversized pots of flowers on the front porch. Doug forgot to move them because he was late taking RJ to hockey.
• Due to being late to hockey, Doug left the lawn mower in the back yard. The witch we were going to ditch was pushing it when we got home. Not sure how the witch got back there ... but it was pretty awesome ... so it got moved to the front.

Halloween Night

RJ and Bradley - pre-trick-or-treating

LiMu Emu and Doug

Julia & Brooke (with Geoff and Doug) and RJ & Bradley took trick-or-treating very seriously. When all was said and done the kids had a TON of candy.

• RJ had 28 pounds of candy (including trunk-or-treat the night before)
• Julia had 16 pounds of candy

Kids trading candy at the end of the night

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