Halloween Carnival

Since Halloween was on a Sunday this year, our church party was on Friday and we did a little trick-or-treating on Saturday to some families in our neighborhood who had opted to accept trick-or-treaters on Saturday. There was a lot of discussion around here on whether Halloween should be celebrated on Saturday or Sunday.  Some whole communities and cities adopted Saturday trick-or-treating here in Tennessee.  There were some rather heated opinions in our neighborhood on which should be done.  In the end, many decided to accept trick-or-treaters both nights.  However, I think us and one other family were the only ones that went on Saturday.  It was fun though and more relaxed with fewer people out.  On Sunday, we went to church and stayed home, but Jesikah did dress up and give the rest of our candy out to trick-or-treaters who came by.

Jarem and Tessa dressed up Friday night before the party

Tessa is a queen, specifically, Queen of England according to her, and Jarem is a cowboy with horse.

Alex didn't dress up this year, but is holding the candy.

The woman in charge of the carnival , Laura Richards,holding the poster she made. She did a great job!!

Mikayla holding Laura's baby, Loni (so cute)!

Cowboy hanging out

Jesikah and her good friend, Pramika.  Jesikah was dressing up as Elphaba from the Broadway musical, Wicked.  She painted her neck green too the next night.

Outside of the church there was a little picture-taking area

Here are Laura and Loni together...this was probably my favorite costume of the night...Little Bo Peep with Loni as the little lamb.

Other fun costumes of the night: The Grants

The Walls (we saw these shirts at Suessland in Universal Studios Florida).  I love, love their hair.

I hadn't seen this one before.  When you are pregnant you have to work with what you've got. :) This is Jennifer Waldroup

Cute clown...Michele Hughuley

The Collis' with a borrowed baby. :)



Elke as a cute devil.  I love the tail coming out the back that you can't see.



The Grants again. :)

Amy Wheeler...her costume was amazing. The more you looked, the more you saw.  There were all kinds of things like little spiders and etc that you had to pay attention to notice.

Lion and Tiger babies
(I borrowed pictures of some of the people there from others facebook and blog pics of the event.  I was boring and didn't dress up, but I enjoyed seeing all the fun costumes others put together )