Halloween

We had a really fun Halloween. Saturday night we went to our ward's Halloween activity. It was a chili cook off followed by a trunk or treat. The dinner started quite late so we had to leave before the trunk or treating even started. To compensate Kimball for missing out on the trunk or treating, we had a hunt or treat at our house. I hid some candy around the house and Kimball and Rebecah hunted for it and put it in their buckets. We made sure the got enough candy to make up for missing out on the activities at church. It was fun!

On Halloween the kids dressed up. Kimball was a fireman and Rebecah was a giraffe. Rebecah tried wearing her costume a number of times but it was always off within 2 minutes. Last night we put her costume on as we went out the door to go trick or treating and she kept it on until bedtime!

All dressed up!



Fireman Kimball!



We had a lot of fun trick or treating. We just did the 9 houses on our block...9 doesn't sound like much, but after 7 houses Kimball said that he was ready to go home because his bucket was getting heavy! (He wanted to keep his candy from Saturday night in his bucket so that made a difference, also most of the houses gave multiple pieces of candy.) We finished the 2 houses we hadn't visited and then went home. Kimball had great things to say about trick or treating. He thought it was great that we lived on the street where people gave out candy. I don't think he quite realized that most streets were giving out candy. Both kids did really well at saying "thank you".

Once we got home we turned on our house lights and gave out candy for 40 minutes until bedtime. Rebecah and Kimball took turns giving candy to the children that came by and they thought it was great fun. The crowds were less than in the last two years...maybe having Halloween on a Monday kept people from being out late and going to all of the neighborhoods.

We now have plenty of candy to satisfy us for a couple of weeks.

Sitting on our porch with our jack-o-lantern.