Happy Halloween!

 

Ok, so yeah, I know this is belated, but we just got home late Sunday night and Monday was spent doing laundry and sleeping, trying to recuperate from our whirlwind trip to North and South Carolina over the weekend. I’m so far behind on e-mails, phone calls and reading blogs, it’s likely I’ll never catch up.

So, for now, I’m just going to share a few photos from Halloween Night when I took my 3 kidlets out for trick or treating.

Well, actually we just went to a couple of Trunk or Treat events at some local churches, mostly because I was too tired to drive around from house to house AND because the twinlings were too tired to run down long gravel driveways on dark country roads.

Seems that many folks with kids are doing the same thing in rural areas. It’s just safer, easier, and cheaper on the gas budget to attend a Trunk or Treat event at a neighborhood church than to visit individual houses on Halloween Night.

The Trunk or Treat Events also have other activities, too, such as games and Hay Rides. Jen won a whole tray of cupcakes during a Cake Walk, and we all enjoyed the Hay Rides at the two different churches we visited.

 

The first Hay Ride was mostly for the little kids as the small wagon was pulled by an ATV around the parking lot. We still enjoyed ourselves, though. But the second Hay Ride was a full-size wagon pulled by a big ol’ tractor.

In fact they had two of them going so no one had to wait very long for a ride. (What’s funny about this photo, is that it was so pitch black outside that I wasn’t even able to see the nice folks on this hay wagon waving, until I got home and uploaded my photos on the computer.)

But best of all, the Hay Rides lasted well over 30 minutes and took us a ways back on some long country roads up into the Sandia Mountains above Cedar Crest. It was a beautiful, crisp cold night with only a sliver of moon, black skies and sparkling stars. Can you tell I really enjoyed the Hay Rides?

We also got to ride with some friends who showed up at the first church and then met us at the second church, like Jen’s friend C.

And Jem made a new friend, M.

A new friend who also brought along her lovely pet rabbit who looked adorable in his costume. He was a very laid back, friendly bunny and fell asleep on Jem’s shoe during the Hay Ride.

While I was making the rounds with my kidlets, to beg for candy and treats at each of the the spooky and creatively decorated trunks, we ran into several folks we knew and also got to visit with one of the ladies who bought 10 of our pullets about 2 weeks ago. We really enjoyed hearing how well our chickens were doing in their new home.

While on the hay wagon, I took a photo of our driver and later, when I showed the photo to my sons they informed me excitedly that the driver was one of their friends from Boy Scouts. (The night was so dark, that it was impossible to see anyone’s face unless they were less than a foot away from you).

The entire evening just made me feel incredibly thankful that we live in such a small, close-knit, rural community.

And with that I will end this post. I apologize that it was full of fluff.