Halloween!

On Tuesday there a party at the library, so Rae got to dress up early.




She's a sassy little witch


Then Thursday was the Trunk-or-Treat at the church

We didn't get around to carving pumpkins until Thursday morning (I wanted to decorate our trunk with our lit pumpkins) Turns out that you don't want to carve pumpkins too early in this area - they rotted really fast!



The good ol' cake walk! They had way too many baked goods, so they were drawing 3 numbers every round and each person that won got a choice of two baked goods!


Trying to eat a doughnut off a string.


On Friday we went downtown for some trick-or-treating on the lawn of the courthouse. A bunch of local businesses were handing out candy and we got a ton! Afterwards we went and got some dinner and met Roy at the school and went trick-or-treating in the dorms. The students decorated the halls and went all out with costumes and tons of candy. It was super crowded but we managed to go a different direction than most of the people and avoided most of the crowds. After a few floors the kids were tired and their buckets were too heavy for them to carry! We went home and trick-or-treated to a few of our neighbor friends. Once we got inside I hurried and lit our pumpkins and turned on all of our lights in hopes that a few trick-or-treaters would come and I could recycle some of our candy, but we didn't get any! Darn! Don't worry, I'm making good progress on all of the candy and it won't be around for long :) Here are some pics:
In the dorms. Roy saw several of his students.


Most of the loot.
Rae trying her first pixie-stick