Halloween Happenings

We aren't a family that goes all out for Halloween, but we do use it as a reason to have fun. We do carve out a pumpkin, get the kids dressed up - in fun costumes, hop in the car to visit a few houses for some trick-or-treating, and join in on a friend trick-or-truck event. Here's some pictures from our fun this year.

We visited the Picture People for the fourth time this month for our Halloween pictures (the other trips were for Xander's birthday, Kalyn's birthday, and the Sugar Beats performance). Here's the official, professional costume shot. Trinity decided to be an eighties girl (even though I'm not sure she ever really got what an 80's girl was), Kalyn was Winnie the Pooh and Xander was a giraffe (yes, I do love the irony of any of our short kids being a giraffe).

We got a great pumpkin from Target for only $5! We had a blast watching Craig carve out the face for it!

Kalyn's preschool had a fun event called the Pumpkin Path. All the kids got to dress up for the entire day of school and then travel down a sidewalk gathering candy from all the teachers. It was so cute and fun.

We hit two houses for trick or treating Halloween night (some we usually visit were out for the night). The kids really just enjoyed showing off their costumes.

Saturday was the second annual trick-or-trunk event at our friends' house. We began it last year because Halloween was on Wednesday and we still wanted to give our kids the fun of dressing up and getting candy without skipping our church's Wednesday night activities. So, we gathered a bunch of friends and parked our cars in one backyard (it's a big backyard) and let the kids go from car trunk to car trunk getting candy. It was a great time last year, so we did it again this year. We all had a blast watching the kids play, roasting marshmallows, exchanging candy and simply hanging out. Thanks Steve and Erica for loaning out your backyard again!!