Halloween

The last few years with kids, there are so many pre-Halloween activities that by the time the actual day comes I'm a little surprised that it hasn't passed yet. We started out early this year with the Saturday before when Ryan ran a "Trick or Trot" 5k with his team. He got second and Bryce, his friend got first but it wasn't a great race for him - possibly due to the copious amounts of candy and minimal amount of real food he ate the night before. Still, he won $50, a really nice camping chair, one of those nice picnic blankets that has the waterproof liner on the bottom, and some gift cards for a Subway platter and some hot wings of some sort. I told him he should give those away in an EQ raffle for home teaching.

There was a very fun and free family fun run. I dressed the girls in their costumes and we ran a little tiny course they had taped off. Then the girls got little prizes and were able to play little fun games for treats. June was Snow White and Willa was Anna.

Willa was having fun but too shy for the camera.

That same night was the trunk or treat. The Thalmans came, hooray, so it was fun to spend time with them. Willa really liked June's Snow White costume that morning, so that evening she agreed to match.

Finally, Halloween night. Willa chose to be Elsa. Little kids are great, they do a few houses and that's just enough. Also, I'm so annoyed with people that go all scary for Halloween. It started as a kid's holiday. Do you see adults trick or treating? So why make things so scary for the littles? Willa got scared by this giant attacking animatronic spider that jumped when she tried to get candy. Then, an adult wearing a skeleton mask scared her enough that she wanted to go home.