A Happy Halloween

Tradition abounds for us at Halloween. We love attending the ward's yearly 'trunk or treat' activity a few days before Halloween. The costume clad kids converge, once again, upon society to gather more candy, a few days later, as we gather at the Turpin's home for a pot luck taco dinner and more trick or treating.

In September, the kids started to think about what they wanted to be. Delaney wanted to be a 'Pegasus'. We devised this get-up, using her sweat shirt and lots of yarn. She loved it when we splurged and purchased a new set of wings for her. (our old set had lost it's definitive form)

Cailin wanted to be Hermione from the Harry Potter series. However, she wanted to color her hair and couldn't find any spray-on hair color that was brown. Sooo, she tweaked her plan a bit and became Ginny instead, because we did find red hair coloring.

For the past few months Connor has been writing a fantasy type book. He wanted to dress up as his main character, Randog, for Halloween. Randog has green hair and is part mer-person. Out of cardboard, he created the unique sword he's holding. He named the sword "thrice-cut"

Liam, by default, because I didn't have a wonderful creative plan for him, became a soccer player. The only thing that was important to him was having green hair, just like Connor. So, he's a soccer player with green hair!

The back side of Delaney's Pegasus costume.

With the help of my sister Elizabeth and a wonderful find at Goodwill, Brianne became a ladybug for the night. (The Goodwill find was the cute polka dot skirt.)

What a cutie.

And where was Barry and Ryan? Barry had to work the night of the ward activity. He was off for the actual night of trick or treating, but, he and Ryan stayed home and had fun playing video games. Brianne wasn't feeling well so they graciously offered to stay home and keep her out of the cold--how thoughtful :)

Playing games at the ward activity.

Connor had his first weekend camp out with scouts the same night as the trunk or treat activity. His scout troop came in from their camp out for the night. We were also joined by my brothers, Brian (and his wife Risa,) and Bob, who flew in from Spokane for a work conference, and came for the weekend to spend time with us.

I was amazed at how quickly Liam warmed up to Bob, as, he's never met him before. Soon Bob had him calling him "Uncle Bob, my favorite uncle."