Trunk or Treat

If it's Halloween, it's Trunk or Treat at First Pres!

This year, the boys wanted to be trains for Halloween.  Both of them.  I have spent the better part of a month trying to convince them that they want to be any of the other five costumes I already had from prior Halloweens, yard sales, herniated belly-button surgeries, etc.  But there was no swaying them.  So we faced up to the challenge.  The end result?  You be the judge.  But since I don't rate myself as very creative, I look at these pictures and think that it's actually pretty amazing what you can do with a cardboard box, some paper dishes, an oat container, a can of spray paint, some ribbon, glue, and a $2.50 can of blue paint from Lowe's. Oh, and two borrowed engineer hats.

We have to work on getting Liam's to stay up better in time for the parade at school tomorrow.  And don't you love how his engineer hat is a little ghetto, all off to to the side like that?

Gettin' some candy.

Some people went all out and decorated their cars in a really cool way.

At first Liam couldn't seem to manage maneuvering in his train costume and holding his pumpkin.  But as soon as he realized that's where people put the candy, he figured it all out.

People were really creative in their costumes.  Here's a refrigerator.

And Flo, from those great Progressive commercials.

Just like last year, there was a cake walk.  Just like last year when Micah won on his first try (believe me, not everyone wins), Liam won on his first try at the cake walk too.  This is the cake that I brought (the pretzels were just there to hold up the plastic wrap that covered the cake)...

...and this is the "cake" (actually five giant cupcakes minus the one Tim has already eaten) that Liam got to bring home.

Micah, sucking on a lollipop and picking pumpkins from a bucket while Harry Potter looks on.

Happy Halloween!  More pics to come from the parades and parties at school tomorrow...