Ahhh fall! My favorite season of the year. I really missed it when we lived in California! Now I get to enjoy all the fall fun! Progress 12/25

1. Visit two pumpkin patches (2/2) ✓

   • Vala’s - Obviously!

   • Skinny Bones - We really enjoyed this smaller patch.

2. Carve pumpkins ✓

3. Read 10 spooky books (not kids) (7/10)

   • Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness

   • The Tower Formerly Known as Sears by Lisa M. Lilly

   • Life Among the Dead by Daniel Cotton

   • Capturing the Devil by Kerri Maniscalco

   • The Broken Girls by Simone St. James

   • Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven

   • Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

4. Read 20 spooky kids books (20/20) ✓

   • Five Silly Ghosts by Hilli Kushnir

   • The Pout-pout Fish Halloween Faces by Deborah Diesen

   • Happy Halloween Mittens by Lola Schaefer

   • The Halloween Kid by Rhode Montijo

   • Pumpkin Party by Maudie Powell-Tuck

   • Mouse’s First Halloween by Lauren Thompson

   • Halloween Hustle by Charlotte Gunnufson

   • Where’s the Pumpkin by Frankie Jones

   • Trick or Treat Pout Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen

   • Halloween Good Night by Rebecca Grabill

   • The Ghosts Go Haunting by Helen Ketteman

   • Sammy’s Spooktacular Halloween by Mike Petrik

   • Happy Halloween, Witch’s Cat! by Harriet Muncaster

   • Skelly’s Halloween by David Martin

   • Curious George Haunted Halloween

   • The 13 Days of Halloween by Carol Greene

   • It’s Halloween Chloe Zoe! by Jane Smith

   • The Ghosts at the Movie Theater by Dori Hillestad Butler

   • Halloween Is by Gail Gibbons

   • Little Blue Truck’s Halloween by Alice Schertle

5. Make 5 pumpkin recipes (1/5)

   • Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins - a staple this time of year!

6. Go on a hayride ✓

7. Take pictures of boys in a pile of leaves

8. Find a new Halloween activity ✓ - We did trick or treating at The Durham. It was fun, but probably not worth it if we didn’t have a membership.

9. Create a fall signature cocktail

10. Bake a pie

11. Watch 20 Fall/spooky movies (20/20) ✓

    • Idle Hands (1999)

    • Dracula (1931)

    • The Black Cat (1934)

    • The Mummy (1932)

    • Anna and the Apocalypse (2018)

    • The Mummy (1999)

    • Beetlejuice (1988)

    • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

    • A Cabin in the Woods (2012)

    • Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

    • Labyrinth

    • The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

    • Scream (1996)

    • Dark City (1998)

    • Godzilla King of the Monsters

    • Sleepaway Camp II

    • The Fly (1958)

    • The Fly (1986)

    • The Witches of Eastwick

    • Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

    • The Relic

    • Cockneys vs. Zombies

    • Shaun of the Dead

12. Navigate a corn maze ✓

13. Buy Halloween pajamas

14. Buy a new nail color for fall ✓

15. Make a leaf craft

16. Buy a new pair of boots ✓

17. Buy and complete a new puzzle

18. Decorate the front porch ✓

19. Make a scarecrow

20. Go trick-or-treating ✓

21. Fill 25 more reading challenge slots (22/25)

22. Find a Halloween door hanger ✓

23. Dye my hair something suitably fall

24. Watch It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

25. Eat at 3 new-to-me restaurants

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