One of the great things about our life overseas is that we have never had to deal with the Halloween issue before. So this year it was a bit of a struggle but we finally decided to go with it and celebrate it as a bit of American culture. One of the interesting things though, with our exposure to the animistic tribal cultures, is that the boys are much more aware of demonic influences and we could differentiate with them between "it's fun to dress up and get candy," but some people use the holiday to celebrate demons and "false gods."
We started the week with Caleb's class trip to the pumpkin patch. Really fun day!
We took all the boys to a pumpkin patch to pick out little pumpkins.
We had "pumpkin night" at our house complete with pizza...
And carving...
They got very excited...
The finished product. The boys called it the Jack Lantern.
On Halloween night the boys got dressed up (in costumes I picked out - I didn't realize they were supposed to pick out their own costumes!)
And we went trick-or-treating to our neighbors' houses...
The next morning our neighbors told us that we were the ONLY trick-or-treaters all evening. Our little town does a big family festival downtown on Main Street with games and candy. We took the boys down there for a bit and had a lot of fun.
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