Truth & Treat

On Wednesday night before Halloween we had a Fall Festival at our church for the kids called Truth & Treat. There was a chili cook-off and dessert contest, which I entered my apple pie in (but didn't win), and we had hot dogs. It was fun to see all the kids in their costumes. All the activities were based on Bible stories and it was posted above the game what it represented and the book of the Bible and chapter it was taken from. Most of the activities were for kids a little bit older than Taylor, but we still had fun. We just walked around to the different activities and Taylor got candy. Here are some pictures from the event:

Taylor went as a UT cheerleader. We had varying comments on her costume. Some thought we were torturing her and others really liked it. Regardless, everyone thought she was the cutest UT cheerleader ever.

These are pictures of the Lost Sheep game. It's hard to tell, but they had sheep made out of cut out paper sheep and toilet paper rolls. There was a wire or something over the top of them and you had to use the staff to lift up the sheep. There was one sheep that was away from the others and the children were supposed to find the lost sheep and return it to the others with the staff.

These are pictures of Gleaning in the Fields taken from Ruth. The kids had to search through the straw for peanuts. We just threw them back since Taylor can't eat peanuts yet, but she did get some candy to take home and share with Mommy & Daddy.

The choir room was transformed into the belly of the whale. Once inside, they sprayed you with water and you had to climb up an inflatable slide and slide down the other side to get out of the belly of the whale.I tried to get Taylor to go in with me, but she started crying whenever I would nudge her, so I just gave up. Maybe she will do it next year.

Taylor mostly enjoyed playing with the other children. She likes getting attention from older kids. Here she is with my friend Anna's little girl Elizabeth.