Trunk or Treat & Pumpkin Carving Movie Fest 2009

Trunk or Treat is one of those things that Mormons probably didn’t invent, but have claimed hold to like green jello. My parent’s said their ward did one on halloween night this year, my friend in California just wrote about hers, my sister planned the one her ward did in Utah, and the two wards in our church building each had one, one the week before Halloween and one the day before.

What’s a Trunk or Treat? Just back you trunk up to the sidewalk around the church, sit or stand near it with a bag of candy, and allow a bunch of kids to run around collecting sweets at a feverish pace and you have one of your own!

Some parents got really into it and decorated their trunks.

I’m going to guess that this household loves football. Just a guess.

My favorite, the mad scientist trunk!

One of the cars went for the trick instead of the treats. All of the younger kids were fascinated by this hand and went forward in groups to touch it to find out if it was real.

My second-favorite part of Halloween (first favorite is pumpkin carving) is seeing all of the costumes. I’m pretty sure this spiderman was dresses in his pajamas with a bit of face paint added in for good measure.

I always wanted to be a princess or a fairy growing up, I suspect my girls will as well.

Which is why I’m going to have to take advantage of their young age when they are toddlers and do a creative costume like this one!

I’m not usually a fan of store-bought costumes (I don’t believe I’ve ever worn one), but this little cutie almost changed my mind.

Our close friends dresses their baby up like a sweet little pumpkin. The mom was smart and bought the costume on clearance last year when she was still pregnant, knowing she would have a baby to dress up the next year. Don’t be surprised if you find me shopping the clearance racks over the next two days attempting to do the same thing!

This was the event where we wore our costumes. I’m already looking forward to dreaming up something for three next year!

The next night, Halloween, we carved pumpkins! We chose to watch The Innocents while we did so, but we were not impressed. We didn’t even watch it through until the end.

I bought one regular orange great-for-carving pumpkin several weeks ago, but then forgot to get another until we went out looking at 9:30 pm on Halloween night. Word to the wise, no one still has pumpkins at that time! So TH ended up carving a cinderella (he would probably call it a “ghost”) pumpkin.

I used a pen to poke holes in my homemade pattern and trace it on. Each year I google for line drawings and then manipulate them in Photoshop to make a pumpkin carving pattern. This year (surprise!) we went for a baby theme with our pumpkins.

TH hard at work.

Doesn’t his look good? I was so happy he chose this pattern for his as I think it’s so sweet. (I hope you know it’s a father holding his baby, it look just like it!)

We don’t have many pictures together (because we hardly ever do anything worth taking pictures of), so I was really excited about this chance to go outside and take some. We recently went shopping for some new clothes for TH, doesn’t he look sexy?

I adore these next two. And yes he’s looking a little scruffy lately. I like to let him do his thing.

We have a kissing pumpkin picture for every year we’ve been together. It began as purely coincidence but now I consider it a tradition.

My slightly freaky cartoonish baby pumpkin. I’m proudest of the diaper but wishing the eyes were a bit smaller!

How sweet is this?!?!?! He’s going to be the best dad.

Another fantastic Halloween down, and so many wonderful holidays coming up. Don’t you just love fall?

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