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Happy Halloween!

Each year, we host a pre-Trick-or-Treat dinner at our house. It's a fun way for the kids to get together and have a good meal before setting out on their candy adventures. Then we usually trick-or-treat as a group which the kids love and the parents enjoy, too.

This year, I was happy to have the Rabroker, Magee, Holmes, Winegar, Tran, Daniels, and Hobgood families here to share the evening with us.

Happy Halloween!
Seven Layer Spider Dip
Haunted Graveyard Veggies
Mummy Dogs
Vampire Bat Cake
Dinner is served!
Beautiful weather allowed for dining al fresco.
Yummy desserts!
Super-cute Cecilia before her very first trick-or-treating adventure.  How CUTE is she?
Our neighbor, Max, and his fabulous kids!
Joshua found this little treat that he just couldn't leave behind ... a baby gecko.
Trey the Dementor used his costume as his treat bag.
Trey the Dementor is fended off by Hermione Granger.  These two REALLY love Harry Potter. =)
There were TONS of kids and families out in the neighborhood.  So fun!
We had to stop by the "Old Rogers' House" where our friends Chris and Jo used to live.
Always love this house's spider webbing.
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