Each year, our entire church family comes together to provide a safe & fun atmosphere for fall fun, Trunk-or-Treat.
Church congregants volunteer by decorating their trunks in full Halloween regalia, buying pounds of candy, and parking row upon row in the church's main parking lot.
Our awesome Children's Minister, Julie Nipp, organizes games & other fun and acts as general orchestrator.
Our dear friends, Coral & Tom Voorhees, purchase hundreds of hot dogs & buns and, this year, watermelons, bring their huge grill & tons of other equipment, and cook for the huge crowds of neighborhood families that show up (this entails hours of standing in immense heat, in addition to all of the prep work!).
We were very excited to join in the fun -- this was Mommy's first time accompanying Daddy & Quintin (in previous years, the event occurred on a Saturday & I was working in St. Petersburg). Quintin dressed as Woody the Cowboy, and strutted around in his fabric chaps with much gusto! Daddy wore his matching Woody costume (vest sewn by Nana Slicker!) and Mommy dressed as Woody's friend Jessie (in matching chaps made with love by Nana & I).
"Auntie" Coral & "Uncle" Tom Voorhees dressed as Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head (other Toy Story friends), handmade by Coral, while their son Holden dressed also as Woody. (We tried to get one or the other of the boys to dress as Buzz Lightyear, but each was determined to be Woody, lol!).
We had an amazing evening with many dear friends! M.J. & Marcus Price, with their young children Bodhi & Ellie, dressed as an astronaut & wife, with alien entourage. The Boggs family came dressed as Disney's Playhouse characters. I think our entire EPIC class was there in full-force! I wish I had lots more pictures to show off all our creative friends' artwork :-D I know the pictures exist (including some of our family), but am unsure of how to get them onto my blog, lol!
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