Halloween

Halloween of course dragged over a couple of days and weeks with activities. We did the annual shows and trick-or-treating at Sea World. And of course, the Ward activities with the Trunk-or-Treating. The young women put on a Carnival to raise money for girls camp. They had a dessert auction and games for the kids to play. The boys had fun playing the little games and getting treats and then of course collecting candy from the other members of the ward. We also went to a local place which I had a groupon for. They had a hay ride, train ride, pumpkin patch, petting zoo, pony rides, food, bounce houses. Unfortunately we went on a day that was very windy and cold so most of the stuff wasn't running. I thought it was a total bust, but the boys of course loved it. For costumes this year, we recycled the Monkey costume for Andrew. It went in them with his monkey birthday. And this year for Ben we asked him what he wanted to be. He said a ROBOT! After hours of looking for a robot costume, which were really expensive, we decided to make our own. So I did some research and this is what we came up with. He got many compliments on it and many said it was the best one there. It was a little difficult to do some things with it, but he got his point across and then took it off. It was a little hard for me to let him have an opinion about his costume, but we worked together and came up with a great thing.