Our First Halloween

If you know us very well, you know that we have not previously participated in Halloween, feeling like the evil origins and on-going events associated with the holiday were not innocent, and therefore we did not want to support or popularize that in any way.

This year after some discussion and prayer, we decided at the last minute (this morning!) to dress the girls up and go trick or treating.

Here is what happened.

We went to Wal-mart and bought costumes (and way too much candy for our little block, apparently):

We carved a pumpkin.

We strung our sidewalk with orange lights, lit our pun'kin, and went to visit our neighbors!

Then we drove down the street to a friends' church and joined in their Harvest Fest. An event during which I left the camera in the car. But then we came home, enjoyed some goodies, attempted to wash off the marker and spray glitter, and went to bed!

Lily wanted to know why we were doing Halloween when we didn't before, and I told her: "We used to not do it because we were afraid of all the evil things that people do on Halloween, but we realized that we don't need to be afraid on Halloween, because Jesus is more powerful than those people or evil spirits!". I think that about covers it on a 4 year old level.

I forgot how many fond memories I have of Halloween traditions, costumes, and oh it was SO fun to see my little Bride and Kitty Cat all dressed up (not to mention the chunka teddy and her glow band !) ! They LOVED it. You'd think they didn't usually play dress up every day.