Friday 31 October 2008

Trunk or Treat

Tonight we went out to the Webster family's Trunk or Treat. We heard all about it last year and how much fun it was, so when Jackie (and Mum and Dad) invited us along we jumped at the chance to go. The boys have never really celebrated Halloween before (for those in the US etc we don't usually celebrate Halloween here unless someone puts on their own thing), so they were so excited to be able to dress up and do some 'trick or treating', or 'trunk or treating' as was the case tonight.

Everyone decorated their car boots (or trunks as known on the other side of the world!) and then all the kids went around collecting their lollies or getting a trick instead (or both!).

Jay decided weeks ago he wanted to be an Egyptian Mummy, Harri wanted to be Spiderman (that was easy - just had to pull out the costume!), Kobe was Santa Claus (but it got too cold so we had to put a jacket on over his Santa suit) and Noah was an angel (of course).


Dad even got in on the action this year and dressed up! Both Mum and Dad looked great.

Aaron dressed up as 'Jason' from the movie 'Friday the 13th'. I was a witch - all week Aaron has been saying I didn't even need a costume to be that! He thinks he is funny.

There were some awesome costumes!! The Corona's and Sherri and her husband and Mymona had gone to such an effort and looked awesome.




Poor little Kels had a sore foot and couldn't do much, but was a beautiful fairy.

Steph and the kids came as a Wizard of Oz theme - they all looked so cute - including Steph. She made a great Dorothy.

Simone hardly had to even dress up to come as a pumpkin! ;)

The kids all went around to the cars and did their trick or treating. Everyone had gone to a real effort to decorate their car boots up. They looked so good and the kids had a great time getting tricks done to them and collecting lollies. Barb had put some plastic ducks in water (next to a pretend severed head!). Depending on which duck you chose, she gave you a bag of lollies to match.

Harri was having fun until he spotted some dogs (Harri and dogs don't mix at the moment!). He calmed down until he got to Jayne's car. Tayla was hiding in the boot and you had to put your hand through some plastic into the boot to get your treat. As Harri reached in Tayla reaches out and grabs Harri's hand. You would've thought he was being murdered! He lets out this blood curdling scream and wouldn't settle down. Being the good Mum that I am, I'm wetting myself laughing, with tears streaming down my face, while I'm trying to calm him down.

There was no way that Harri was doing any more trick or treating after that! He did start going over to Toni and Jaron's car, but wasn't impressed that their boot looked like a mouth with sharp teeth and didn't want to get his hand snapped! He then spent the rest of the trick or treating time in the van with Noah (who was hiding from the wind), refusing to come out as it was 'too scary'. After the kids had finished trick or treating the costumes were all judged.

After they gave out the main prizes they still had a few prizes left, Jay was very excited to win a box of chocolates! By that time half of his costume had fallen down!

Harri was getting upset, wondering why he hadn't won a prize for his Spiderman costume. He is so funny as he just assumes that he should get everything - a typical four year old I guess (like at the magic show last week - he just couldn't work out why he wasn't chosen out of hundreds of people to be a volunteer to go on stage!). Aaron then got a box of chocolates so he gave it to Harri and told him he won! He was really happy then.

All night there was a sausage sizzle going and lots of yummy desserts. Everyone had fun playing different games, and just sitting around talking.

Uncle Kim took the kids (big and little!) for a hay ride. It reminded me of when we were little and Pop would take us for rides on the back of his land rover or truck down at the river.


It was a great night - so much fun. Thanks heaps Jackie for inviting us along. Hopefully Harri won't have too many nightmares tonight! :)

13 comments:

  1. Looks like alot of fun, so why didn't u dress up then? haha

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  2. hey Lisa! you are quick with updating your blogroll- I dont even have to tell you I have a new blog ...or did i already tell you? mmm, i cant remember...
    Loved this post about the halloween night- you are so luck y to have such wonderful friends and family all close by and to be able to do fun things with t hem- what an awesome night. so funny about ahrri being scared, I laughed so much!

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  3. Hope Harri sleeps well tonight. With all that screaming, he should sleep the rest of the week. I'm sure every body thought there was a major slaughter going on in your van with Kobe. My ears are still ringing !!! Love Mum xxx

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  4. I make a good witch too-just ask my kids!

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  5. hi kisa
    hope you all had alot of fun..you guys looked awesome and all the boots looked great..i should do alot more to my boot..maybe next year hey?
    if the corona's didn't have music going in there car I reckon my car would of been soo boring..
    hopefully next year the weather will be better..
    sorry about the dogs..mark did lock them up and somebody came along and probably thought it was the toilet and let them out..

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  6. What a great idea - nice and safe for the kids too! Lisa, with that nose you looked like Paget Brewster (Prentiss) from Criminal Minds!!! You could've just put a few bruises and scapes on your face and gone as Belle from Home and Away - sometimes she reminds me so much of you!!!
    Poor Harri! Have a great weekend!

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  7. Kylie that is funny as when I recently got my hair cut and got a bit of a fringe happening, Aaron straight away called me 'Belle'. As long as I don't act like her ;)
    Jackie -your car was great! I think you had more than enough to think about, without worrying about doing the boot up more. It was a great night!

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  8. I forgot to say, did you say Aaron dressed up? He looked the same as always to me - scary!

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  9. Looks like fun, great costumes. Noah is a perfect little angel.

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  10. Your photos of last night are awesome Lisa. Love the hayride pic of everyone crammed in. (And Harri because he's always cute).

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  11. Looks look heaps of fun. Wow even Dad went to a lot of effort to wear a costume! You would feel left out if you didn't dress in costume.
    Nicki

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  12. Nice comment about the pumpkin!! :) The witch photos of you don't do you justice. The black gunk you painted on your teeth was really scary.

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  13. what a fun night! everyone looks great all dressed up and your photos are excellent.

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