Halloween Festivities

Our pumpkin graduated from over sized squash to jack-o-lantern this past weekend.  When asked what he thought was inside, Rhys replied, "Cookies."  When asked to help pull out the seeds he declared, "Too messy in the pumpkin!" but all took the opportunity to harvest the seeds.  Sophie drew a picture to show us how she wanted the mouth and Rhys choose triangles for eyes. 

 

The jack-o-lantern was complete and there were no injuries requiring a trip to the ER--so a success!



 



Our ward (congregation) co-hosted a Fall Festival and Trunk or Treat the weekend before Halloween.  Sophie and Rhys dressed in their costumes and were ready for the action.  Sophie was an eager Snow White but we were unsure if Rhys would cooperate.  He picked his costume over a month ago but ever since we made the second-hand purchase, he had been pining to be Superman (his all time favorite T-shirt), pointing to the astronaut costume and protesting, "No! No!"  or crying whenever we brought up the "space man" uniform.  Surprisingly, he was quite content to wear his Superman T-shirt under the costume without a single gripe.

The trunk was stuffed with coats (it was cold), our freshly carved jack-o-lantern, a pot of chili, and goodies to hand out.  We were happy to see neighbors and family accepted our invitation.

Opa and Oma even dressed up as gorillas!

Things got rolling with a chili cook-off in which we entered our favorite vegetarian chili from our friend Heather. It won an award for best vegetarian and nothing but a ghost of our double batch was left in the crock when we picked it up.

After dinner craziness ensued as the youth of the church manned stations for the kiddies to earn their candy.  They bowled down ghost pins, balanced eyeballs on a spoon, pinned the wart on the witch, and wrapped each other as mummies.

Then it was on to the Trunk or Treat!  We handed out mostly non-edibles treats as to not be tempted above that we are able (1 Cor. 10:13).  Of course with all the incoming candy that wasn't totally successful.  Sophie went ahead with her friend Kenzie while Keri took it slow with Rhys and Neal handed out goodies. 

Ella and Clara as 50s girls, Sophie as Snow White, Kenzie as her favorite "My Little Pony"--Rainbow Dash, Rhys as Superman posing as an astronaut *wink wink, Ben as Captain America, and up front, a little dragon.