Hawaiian Halloween

Halloween began with a trunk-or-treat ward party at the church. Doesn't look very cold and Halloweeny does it?

First we have swashbuckling Adam, I mean Jack Sparrow.

Next we have Kamri, the Ruby Princess, (a princess from the Jewel Kingdom series by Jahnna N. Malcolm for those of you who would like to read them :-).

Jairin says he's just a random pirate-- how about we call him Schmee (from Peter Pan). Ooops! Jairin says he's definitely not Schmee, but we'll call him that anyway.

Miri is Princess Aranelle from the book The Keepers by Jackie French Koller.

Caroline was happy happy happy thanks to a dose of hydrocodone. She even performed her "Amazing Pretzel Act" for us :-)!

Aria and Joelle were Disney fairies. They love the new Disney movie Tinkerbell. (We actually really enjoyed it too, and rather thought it should have been on the big screen.
Aria was Prilla.....

.......and Joelle was Rosetta.

Joelle forgot her wings for the church party, so here she is again Halloween night.

Ellanne was a wee bride who would not keep her veil or her shoes on.

We took the children trick-or-treating Halloween night, but our neighborhood is not a good area for trick-or-treating since we are on a highway and houses are very far apart. A few days before, Rob had driven through a neighborhood which he thought would be good for trick-or-treating, so we all (except for Adam who stayed home with Caroline) smashed into one car and went looking for the neighborhood which was not as easy to find in the dark. It turned out to be a GREAT trick-or-treating neighborhood for us and the hundred or so other children who beat us there. I guess everyone else had the same problem as us, trying to find a decent place to turn their children loose. I have never seen so many trick-or-treaters on the same street at the same time! I imagine the people in those houses get bombarded every year, but they don't look like they are hurting for money. One house even handed out giant-size candy bars. Here are some pictures of Halloween night. It was so nice to be out trick-or-treating without freezing our fingers, toes and noses. Here are some pictures on Halloween itself.

Rob made his famous spudnuts which we enjoyed hot and crispy-- better than Krispy Kreme, we think! We couldn't find real pumpkins to carve, so although we heard that some Hawaiians carve pineapples, we opted for miniature squash. They were cute.

HAPPY HAWAIIAN HALLOWEEN!