Baker Blog: Halloween Fun!

The weekend before Halloween, Maumelle had several events in town to celebrate. This year with Reed being a little older I decided we would at least try everything out at least once. I am so glad we did because Reed had a blast. Josh was gone hunting, so Gigi came and we had a fun night together.

Before we left I tried my best to get a few pictures of the boys in their costumes.

Reed the police officer

With his prisoner, Graham!

Serious faces

Our first stop was at Lake Willastein where they were having a balloon festival. Unfortunately, this is the only picture I got because I left the camera in the car and it got dark 10 minutes after we got there. I captured this one of Reed with my phone before the sun went down. It was really neat seeing all of the balloons up close, but it was FREEZING cold so we didn't stay long.

Our next stop was the Community Center where they were having a fall carnival. We almost didn't go in because the parking lot was empty and it just didn't look like there was much going on, but I talked myself into just trying it and it was so much fun for the boys.

Can you tell they were just ready to go?

Graham & Gigi

I am so thankful Gigi came along, because this is all Graham did all night....run everywhere! (Sorry, for the horrible quality, I am being lazy and not editing any of these pictures).

Run away prisoner....

Reed's favorite part was the huge jump house and Graham LOVED bouncing on the side.

Reed would have stayed in here all night, he basically had it to himself and he loved it.

We finally pulled Reed away from the bounce house to play a few games.

This game was so cute and simple, it was just a peg board with suckers sticking out of it. Each child got a turn pulling a sucker out and if the end of the sucker was painted black you got an additional prize. It was so funny because of course Reed went first and got a white stick and then Graham walked right up and pulled a black one. It was so cute and so funny at the same time! Of course Reed was elated because he got the extra prize and Graham was just off to the next thing he could get into.

Graham made a friend! This guy was taking tickets for the bounce house and Graham would NOT stay out of his lap. He kept trying to put him down and Graham would just turn around and hold his hands in the air until he picked him up again. It was too cute! This was the only time he was still all night! :)