Halloween Night

Brayden Kerr as Shaggy

This year I was attempting to do a safari theme. Braxton was the safari guy and Carly a lion, Parker a giraffe. But the week before Halloween, Braxton saw the movie Indiana Jones, so then he became Indiana Jones, and our theme didn't work as well, but oh well. I think they all looked cute. Halloween night we went to the church for the carnival and trunk or treat. We really only stayed for the chilli and hot dogs. It was supposed to rain, so the activities committee moved everything inside. There were a ton of people there, wall-to-wall. It was crazy. Everyone was sweating. It was too bad the forecast called for rain because it didn't even rain. Anyhow during the dinner, they had all the kids parade around the gym and had judges who gave different prizes. Braxton won "Best Character Costume." So that was kind of fun. Jenn had her kids dressed up as the Scooby-Doo gang. It was so cute. Corbin was Freddy and he had his own Mystery Machine he drove around. He won the prize for best boy costume. Brayden was Shaggy as you can see from the picture, but he doesn't have his big sub sandwich that Jenn made for him. That was so fun too! Anyhow we then decided to go trick-or-treating. We met up with Jenn and Jason and Jason's brothers and went around in a neighborhood with very nice homes. Carly loved it. She was more than happy to go up to each house and hold her bag open for them to put candy in it. She never did say trick-or-treat; she was too shy. We also had another family in our group who had a lark the dad (Bill) was riding around on just for fun, so Braxton invited himself to sit on Bill's lap and take a ride too to each house. Eventually there were about six kids clinging to Bill and taking turns maneuvering the lark. Braxton said that was the best part of the evening. We had a great time.