We have had a busy week of Halloween activities. On Monday we went to the library Halloween carnival. It was pretty fun. They had about seven booths or so of games that the kids were able to do. Things like search among the books to find spiders, toss the ball, fish for candy, and so on. They also had free donuts and cider.
Then on Wednesday my school (Idaho State University) had their Halloween carnival. They had a ton of booths. Some of them were just handing out candy, but most of them had some type of small activity to do. The kids got a ton of candy there, which is good because we needed some to hand out on Halloween night and for a party that we were going to on Saturday.
On Friday we had a couple more community trick-or-treat events. The first was at a local RV store. They had about 10 or so booths from stores in the community. They were all handing out candy, but then some of them gave out some good coupons too (free kids meal at Texas Roadhouse, $15 oil change and car wash, free kids meal at a local pizza place, etc.). Then we went to a joint community one at a park. It was raining out and we had to stand in a line for about 30 minutes in the rain. The kids didn't mind, but I was getting grumpy when I kept seeing people cut in line. In total there was probably 20 tables or cars giving out candy and it took us over an hour. That is one that I told Rebecca I did not want to do again in future years.
One of the booths was giving out stuffed animals, so that was a cool part at least.
Today we carved our pumpkins. Rebecca's brother and his wife were here to carve with us. They carved a pirate one and we did the one eating a child. The kids also carved their little pumpkins.
Then we had our ward Halloween party. It was in the backyards of a couple families' homes in our ward. It was great! It was a combined Halloween and meat smoking party. So tons of people brought in smoked sausages, brisket, ribs, ham, salmon, pulled pork and more. Rebecca and I ate way too much, but it was all really good. They also had an outdoor pizza oven going, tons of salads, rolls, jellos, and desserts. We brought a popcorn cake. Then after eating they had a ton of Halloween/carnival games and a bouncy house. Julia, Ethan, and Christian all just ran off and played on their own. I took Agnes around. We did pin the potion on the witch, pumpkin tic tac toe, bean bag toss, eat the donut off the stick, bobbing for apples, bingo, wrapped her up like a mummy, tried to roll a cookie off our forehead into our mouth, stick your hand in buckets of gross stuff, and musical chairs. She got a ton of candy at each and was really excited about that. So the houses that it was at both had pretty cool back yards. Some of the cool features that they had were trampolines, basketball court, toy sets, a covered pizza oven eating area, putting green, splash pad, and fire pit.
After that we hurried home and got the house ready for the graduate students from my school to come by. They all come trick or treating to the faculty members' homes every year. Instead of getting candy though, they just hang out for about 30 minutes. They also have the children judge their costumes to see who has the best. Our children colored pictures to give to their favorites. Julia gave one to the Cat in the Hat, Ethan to a student who dressed as a knight and brought his sugar gliders, Christian to cookie monster, Elliott to a pirate, and Agnes to Minnie Mouse. We also had apple fritters for them to eat.
Now all we have left is the actual trick-or-treating on Monday night.
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