Halloween in Quarantine

The kids missed Halloween at school this year on Friday, October 29. We also never finished putting together costumes. Nichole's dragon she started on I Love Yarn Day is still waiting. 

But I was determined to get so much done on Saturday, October 30. It was the kids last chance to get school stuff done before going back in person. There was a ton of things I needed to do myself. Then I woke up at 3am with a sick baby so when we finally got to sleep a little after 7am, we just kept sleeping til noon.

We did do some of our plans, though. We celebrated Jr. Jr.'s birthday again, this time with the dinner he requested and the cake and ice cream he requested. We let him blow out candles this time and we sang to him again. He also got to play the game he got for his birthday again.

That day we found these on our doorstep, a bucket of candy for each child with a note that said, "Happy Halloween from your favorite neighbors." Aww. 

The kids took their buckets and went from door to door down the hall to celebrate Trick or Treat Day. They later had candy corn for Candy Corn Day and we stayed up way too late to watch a movie.

Lucky threw together a costume for himself even if it wasn't what he originally planned. And Jr. Jr. recruited some of Nichole's puppets to help him out.

What Lucky said about his costume: It's Pumpkin Who... or Doctor Pumpkin... but I like Pumpkin Who better.

 

The neighbors put up cool decorations on the lawn again.

Sunday, October 31 was National Knock-Knock Jokes Day so we had Siri and Alexa telling us knock-knock jokes. We were actually able to put together a Halloween themed dinner this year so that was fun. We haven't done that in a while.

Pizza mummy, Ramen loaf creature/face/thing, banana ghosts and mandarin orange pumpkins (we got that idea from a friend on Facebook), and Vampire's blood... or what vampires drink, except the black cherry Kool-Aid doesn't look as dark in a clear goblet. Oh well.

Nichole and I went out for a drive up Provo Canyon, up Squaw Peak and South Fork Road, and said farewell to Bridal Veil Falls for the next six months. It's not like we could go down to the falls right now anyway since there's been construction for a while but we were able to stop at the overlook which is now closed until May. I like relaxing Sunday drives.