This year the boys had decided not to go trick and treat, but we still wanted to prepare for others if they arrived.  Because of the pandemic, we had bought a pumpkin bucket to place in front of the house so kids could just pick up.

    Connor was excited for this day and was doing his usual countdown.  The night before he wanted to give us a preview of dress up, so he wore his animal winter hat.  On the day of Halloween, our neighbor knew that the boys would not be trick n treating, thus he dropped off even bigger chocolate bars than any other years; the boys were thrilled.  Throughout the day, Connor had come down in old costumes to show us. 

      By evening time, we set out the bucket with candies and Stuart also set up the fog machine.  We then had our dinner while watching The Nightmare Before Christmas from the boys’ request.  To our surprise, the whole evening we only had 2 set of kids coming to our house.  They did like the fog machine and we could see their reaction with our security camera.  Connor dressed up and scared me with his zombie costume, then he walked around different part of the house to get treats.  Sometimes after 8pm, Stuart and I took Buddy out.  The neighborhood was quite quiet with no one walking outside and the only noise was from one house having a party.  There were only 5 houses (including us) prepared with goodies.  The boys were a bit disappointed how quiet the evening was, but we all hope to make up the fun next year.