Trunk or Treat

I am the Ward Activity Chairperson at church and Jason is on my committee. So, we have been really busy preparing for the Trunk or Treat Activity. It is our biggest activity of the year and we had a couple hundred people there. We had a really busy day yesterday pulling all the last minute things together to make this a success. We ran for an hour in the morning, went to a soccer game and then spent the rest of the day setting up, doing the activity and cleaning up. I was ready to collapse last night. Thank goodness for my parents who were a huge help all day and my committee who were so helpful!

Jason was in charge of the spook alley and it turned out really good. He remembered going through a box maze in a spook alley when he was a kid and wanted to re-create it. It was a lot of work, but it turned out great, aside from Jason's slashed thumb that almost required stiches!  Dawson wouldn't crawl through the maze - but he went in the back door and hid with Jason and scared a few people. He thought that was pretty cool. We did not attempt to take Taya in there after her scene at the Halloween store....I took her and Dawson to a Halloween store to look for a ninja sword. No big deal - right? Well, there was a Halloween decor "scary guy" who chopped an ax and screamed at you when you walked in. It went down hill from there. She saw all these scary masks and lost it. She started screaming like Freddie Crugar himself was chasing her. I am trying to make a b-line for the door and Dawson won’t leave. He’s looking at all the gory masks saying “that’s so cool…look at that one”. Everyone in the whole store just starred at me and I couldn’t help but laugh. We had to pass the “chopping guy” again when we left. You can imagine how Taya reacted. I eventually made it out with both kids and vowed not to take Taya to anything even remotely spooky.

I was really happy with how it turned out. We did carnival style games including Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin, Bean Bag Toss, Face Painting, Fishing Game, Donut Eating, Cake Walk, Activity Table and a Spook Alley.

Dawson eating his cake walk prize (with a squint).  He was pretty excited about his Ninja sword backpack.

Holden had a good time walking around and checking out everyone's costumes.

Taya, my Southern Belle (or maybe Little Bo Peep).  She wanted to wear her dance recital costume for Halloween - perfect!  She said the cake walk was a really hard game.  She had to give up and get a cupcake from the dessert table.

My nanny, Linda, came with her grandkids.  Sam was the UPS guy - too funny!

My neighbors, the Millers, joined us as well.  Jen and I went through the spook alley together and she got scared!  Classic!

Dawson in the donut eating contest

The main event - Trunk or Treating.  I caught up with the kids for a minute to snap a picture.  And no, that's not my normal attire.  But, it was my mother's in the 70's :)