Halloween Spooks

This year for Halloween we picked the cutest little pumpkin right out of the pumpkin patch. She was a cute smiley pumpkin too.

We also had a little nurse in training modeling her fancy pink scrubs.

We had a Trunk or Treat activity at the church. We turned our car into a monster again and Kent had fun popping out of the depths of the monsters mouth to scare the kids before he handed them their candy. Anna’s favorite part of the night was standing there watching her dad trying to figure out what he was doing in the monster’s mouth.

With pumpkin Elise in Papa’s arms and nurse Anna holding my hand we set off to trick or treat. Anna did not get what was going on when we started, but she soon figured out that if she went up to people and stared at them, they would put something in her bucket. She soon just started going up to random people and staring at them.

Half way through the route, her bucket was getting heavy for her, so I took it back to the car, emptied it and handed it back. She looked down at her empty bucket and started crying, so I put one candy back in. She looked at the one piece of candy and started crying even harder, so I had to take back her bucket and put about 6 pieces of big candy back in it so it looked like it was full again before she would continue on. Papa and I had to say thank you for her every time.

Hopefully next year she will be able to say “trick or treat” instead of giving a stare down for candy.

It was fun to have Papa along too! On the way home we stopped by our neighbor Claire’s house to bob for apples. I have never bobbed for an apple before in my life and it was quite daunting to stick my whole head under water to get the apple. Kent had to show me how. Claire thought it was great fun to watch us.

Happy Halloween!