For Halloween this year we participated in our ward Trunk-or-Treat party. We haven't done much for Halloween other than carve a pumpkin since we've been married, so it was fun to have a party to go to. Joseph and I did have to dress up for our mutual activity the week before (Joseph was a hippie and I was a 50's girl), and although we had intentions to dress up on Halloween night, I wasn't really feeling up to it so we justified our way out by saying we had already dressed up this year. We didn't get a picture of our costumes this year, but here's a picture of Joseph in his costume about 2 years ago. (One of the beauties of costumes as an adult is you don't grow out of them like you did when you were a kid.)
(Pretty hot stuff huh? And yes, I am the person cut out in the photo, not some "other woman"... it's just that my costume there was irrelevant to this post.)
We teamed up with some friends in our ward to decorate our trunk. We went shopping the night before and got some great stuff for it. We wanted to find a pumpkin to carve, and unfortunately we found out that shopping for a pumpkin on Halloween eve (not a baking pumpkin, but a pumpkin large enough to carve) is about as impossible as trying to find a Christmas Tree on Christmas Eve. We honestly went to at least 5 grocery stores looking for one... everyone was out! Finally, at our very last grocery store, without much hope I asked a worker if they had any left. She said no, but then her face got an excited look and she said, "Wait, we do have one, follow
me." So we followed her over to the flower cooler where amid the bunches of bouquets there sat one lonely pumpkin. It was the perfect size, and though it had a scar on one side and what looked like warts on the other, we bought it and took it home to carve. It was so nice to have success after all of that looking! Our pumpkin was carved by a rather large group effort, and it was the perfect touch to our Halloween festivities. The trunk was complete with blood drippings, spiderwebs, large spiders and caution tape.
I guess things just aren't quite as scary as an adult, but we threw an MP3 player in the trunk playing a Mannhiem Steamroller's Halloween Monster Mix to add some life to our trunk and attract people down to the end of the parking lot where we were. Our friends told us at one point the music was so scary that some of the kids were afraid to reach in to get the candy from the bowl. I guess that means it was a success! It was a very fun Halloween celebration.
For Halloween this year we participated in our ward Trunk-or-Treat party. We haven't done much for Halloween other than carve a pumpkin since we've been married, so it was fun to have a party to go to. Joseph and I did have to dress up for our mutual activity the week before (Joseph was a hippie and I was a 50's girl), and although we had intentions to dress up on Halloween night, I wasn't really feeling up to it so we justified our way out by saying we had already dressed up this year. We didn't get a picture of our costumes this year, but here's a picture of Joseph in his costume about 2 years ago. (One of the beauties of costumes as an adult is you don't grow out of them like you did when you were a kid.)
(Pretty hot stuff huh? And yes, I am the person cut out in the photo, not some "other woman"... it's just that my costume there was irrelevant to this post.)
We teamed up with some friends in our ward to decorate our trunk. We went shopping the night before and got some great stuff for it. We wanted to find a pumpkin to carve, and unfortunately we found out that shopping for a pumpkin on Halloween eve (not a baking pumpkin, but a pumpkin large enough to carve) is about as impossible as trying to find a Christmas Tree on Christmas Eve. We honestly went to at least 5 grocery stores looking for one... everyone was out! Finally, at our very last grocery store, without much hope I asked a worker if they had any left. She said no, but then her face got an excited look and she said, "Wait, we do have one, follow 
me." So we followed her over to the flower cooler where amid the bunches of bouquets there sat one lonely pumpkin. It was the perfect size, and though it had a scar on one side and what looked like warts on the other, we bought it and took it home to carve. It was so nice to have success after all of that looking! Our pumpkin was carved by a rather large group effort, and it was the perfect touch to our Halloween festivities. The trunk was complete with blood drippings, spiderwebs, large spiders and caution tape.
I guess things just aren't quite as scary as an adult, but we threw an MP3 player in the trunk playing a Mannhiem Steamroller's Halloween Monster Mix to add some life to our trunk and attract people down to the end of the parking lot where we were. Our friends told us at one point the music was so scary that some of the kids were afraid to reach in to get the candy from the bowl. I guess that means it was a success! It was a very fun Halloween celebration.
4 comments:
How fun! I see a bump coming there mommy!
Looks like fun! Your truck is very creepy! :)
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH. Scary! I love it! And the pumpkin is AWESOME!!! I am very impressed.
Your car looks awesome!
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