Ward Trunk-or-Treat

Last night we took the kids to our ward's annual trunk-or-treat.  When we first got there I decorated the car.  I had big plans for it this year, but it just didn't happen...maybe next year.  Anyway, this is what our car looked like this year with the pumpkins all lit up...

       Jaedyn quickly found some friends to run around with until it was time to eat dinner...      Jaron and Jantzen goofed around a bit together before they found their own friends...      As you can see, Jaron and Jantzen decided this year to be different "skins" of "Steve" for Halloween and Jaedyn decided to be "Dorothy" or "Dorky" as she calls her because she has a hard time pronouncing it correctly.  I think it's cute how she says it.  What sold her on this particular costume was the sparkly red shoes and "Toto".  Jaedyn has been so excited to wear her new red sparkly shoes.  I can't say I'd disagree with her on that, I get excited to wear new shoes too!
I love how she posed for this picture...she had to position her shoe just right to make sure I could see it.     For dinner we got to choose between different kinds of chili, cornbread, and nachos...it was all good!   After we were all done eating dinner, the kids all lined up for a costume parade/contest.  Here's the kiddos walking the parade route...     None of them won the costume contest in their age groups, although I think Jaedyn should have won in hers.  Instead some baby, not even in her age group and not even in the ward won.  Oh well, I think she was the cutest little girl out there.
Jaedyn met a new friend at the party, her name is Hope and her family just moved into our ward.  Jaedyn was pretty excited to meet her.      One of the guys in our ward made this video game arcade as his costume this year.  It was pretty cool because you could actually play Super Mario Bros on it and that's exactly what the kids did for a good portion of the night.     It was finally time to do some trunk-or-treating.  I had Josh stay back at our car and hand out the candy to the kids while I walked around with Jaedyn and Jantzen.  Jaron is apparently "too cool" to hang out with his family in public now, so he took off with some of his friends.      Along the way Jaedyn found another Dorothy and got excited about it, they both looked so cute!     Then, we came across Sis. Stevens (she teaches the primary kids music every week) who Jaedyn didn't recognize at first, but then realized who it was.  She was a little freaked out by her make up, but got over it enough to get a picture with her.      When we got to our own car, Jaedyn was so excited to see her daddy.  She was the only kid that got a handful of candy from him...just look at that smile!      Since Jaron took off with his friends, this is the only picture I was able to get of him...as he quickly walked past me!      The bishop did a little trunk-or-treating with the kids.  He was a giant pinata this year, so he had to get some candy for the "birthday girl" aka his wife to enjoy.  If you look closely, you can see Jantzen throwing candy (red one) while the bishop tries to catch it in his costume.  Jantzen really enjoyed this game!     Candy collecting was finally over and the kids were exhausted from having such a busy day.  This was reflected in the pictures I tried to get of them together...no cooperation!!!  I do love how Jaedyn's "chillin' it " on the back of the car though...so cute!          I was able to get everyone to smile for a family picture before we packed everything up, that doesn't happen very often!      During the clean up process a particular someone disappeared...     ...I found him trying to squeeze in some more video game time before we left.   The kids all had a good time, as usual.  Josh and I are exhausted, as usual, but it was a fun night.  The kids still have more trick-or-treating before Halloween is over...Yay, more candy!!