Halloween Part One

I write this as "part one" because Halloween usually has several festivities and seems to last an entire week here.

This past Saturday we had the very fun school carnival.  The three middle kids were super excited to go and have fun.  Jillian and Emily loved getting into costume, Andrew threw on a camo shirt and that was about all I could convince him to do.  He also refused to take a picture by himself facing the camera.

Emily was our beautiful pink butterfly ballerina.


Jillian was our beautiful Candy Corn Witch.


Andrew was...  Andrew, in a camo shirt?  We did make him put on some camo pants for the church party later on but I couldn't get a pic of that.


The school carnival was especially fun this year.  I picked up our tickets that I had ordered the previous week and gave Andrew and Jillian theirs and then didn't see them until they ran out of tickets about two hours later.  Here they are with stained mouths and their fun prizes.


There were fun paddle boats and mini golf for littler kids that Emily loved.  There was also a super cool hand powered train ride.  There was a circle track with little train cars on it that you powered with hand-pedal power.   Emily loved that too but I was so thrilled watching her have so much fun on it that I forgot to get a pic:(  Of course we had snow cones too.





Poor John wasn't able to go to the school carnival.  For starters Robert had to go into work and secondly it was during John's naptime.  He wanted to take a picture too though.

Here he's showing me how I CAN see his face ( I kept telling me to show me his smiling face, he said "my face is right here, see!")


John joined us for the church Trunk R Treat that night though and had a ton of fun.  We re-used his Buzz costume that is just a touch too small for him, oops.  My hands were full keeping an eye on him so this is sadly the only picture I have of the entire evening.


The trunk r treat was especially fun this year.  Instead of cramming into our tiny church building and being super crowded in there, the family's were encouraged to have games out of the back of their cars instead of just a trunk r treat.  It worked great!  That way all the kids got to play games that were fun, it was light when they went around to the cars so no one was losing kids in the dark - nor was anyone close to getting run over while people tried to leave, it wasn't crowded and hot - it was great.  Good job guys.

We still have the Round Rock trick or treating for pre-K kids at the park on Halloween Day, we also still have Trick or Treating at Robert's work on Halloween day (after school but before work is out), and then we have actual Trick or Treating on Halloween evening.

The cooler is about 1/3 full so far, by the time Halloween evening is over - we will have to transfer to our bigger cooler and it will be entirely full.