Halloween Happenings 2009

What a fun Halloween we had here in Iowa this year!

Did I really just say that, fun and Iowa in the same sentence?? Crazy I know but we really did have fun. Maybe it was because Caleb was on a break from school so we got to spend a lot of time with him or maybe it was because we did so many things to celebrate Halloween. Here are some pictures to depict what we did.

HAYRIDE

(If you look behind us you can see the corn stalks that are all over here in Iowa. This is taken at our Church and those corn stalks go all the way around our the building. Our Church is literally in the middle a corn field!)

PUMPKIN CARVING

Makayla painting her pumpkin! She loved doing this.

The finished products. Mine on the far left, You can't see it too well but it says Trick-or-Treat. Next Makayla's the pretty pink one. Next Caleb's a scary skull. Next Carson's and Cooper's, our friends little boys. Last one Travis' Iron Man. They all turned out great and we had a lot of fun carving them.

Here they are with light in them. They looked great on our front porch for about a day and then we walked outside and saw that Caleb's was being eaten by the squirrels!! Everyday as we would come out it was more and more mangled from the squirrels trying to eat it. The funny thing was mine never got touched only Caleb's got eaten!

TRICK-OR-TREATING

We had many opportunities to go trick-or-treating this year. The first one was at a radio station. We went with our friends the Castillon's and thought it wouldn't be that big of a deal, but boy were we wrong. It was packed, but pretty awesome inside. They went all out on the decorations. Here Makayla and Caleb are while we were waiting outside.

Our next trick-or-treating outing was Friday night. Apparently in this area they make you trick-or-treat on certain nights so that not everyone is doing it on the same night. Our area happened to be Friday night. We didn't know where to go, since we are still pretty new to the area so we tagged along with some friends from the ward. It was a cold night, but Makayla loved every minute of it. She was so cute! At each door she would say, "treat" and then "thank you".

Makayla and mommy trick-or-treating! Notice my wind blown hair look. The wind made it so much colder.

Makayla and her trick-or-treat posse!

(Ryan, Joy, Russell, and Makayla)

Saturday night, Halloween night, we went to a ward trunk-or-treat! It was so much fun. Here Makayla is with her buddies Carson, Superman, and Cooper, the kangaroo!

(Family picture at the parade!)

After the trunk-or-treat we went with our friends trick-or-treating around their neighborhood, because they live in another area that was suppose to trick-or-treat on Saturday night. Crazy I know. Then we went to the city's big parade! It was pretty awesome! It lasted like an hour and a half and they threw TONS of candy. Makayla was going crazy! If her friend Carson tried to take her candy she would scream at him! I felt so bad, but it didn't seem to phase Carson he would just pick up more candy and give it to Makyala and then she was fine! What a sweet boy he is!

Even though we had a great Halloween here we still missed seeing Grandma and Grandpa Hunter, the rest of the family, and our good friends! We hope everyone had a great Halloween!