Trunk or Treat!

I'll explain the video at the end of this post!


It was time again for Bethel's Trunk or Treat. The girls decided to wear costumes this year! I know, unbelievable, BUT they insisted on picking their own costumes from clothes in their closet. That's okay, they wanted to be creative. Jessica was a rock star (how original!) and Samantha wore her 50's poodle skirt from last years 50's party at school (again original right :)

I can't tell what Galyne is?
 I'm sure somehow it involves being a rock star.

 I made Mom pose in front of my bulletin board. I came up with a space theme for trunk or treat this year. Poor mom, she loves all the scary Halloween stuff and we always trunk or treat at the church so it's just dress up cutsie, nothing scarey! Mom always made my costumes. I was a witch for years and then I changed to a vampire, complete with white face and blood (face paint) dripping from my mouth! One year Mom dressed as a vampire and chased me through the house. I was sure she was a vampire and nearly had a heart attack. Then she went to our unsuspecting, very superstitious neighbor, Mrs. Regina, and knocked on her door. When Mrs. Regina opened the door I think she REALLY did have a heart attack!

 Back in the day we could dress up scarey and no one thought we were devil worshipers, or at least no one ever called me that! Here's me, Dewayne and Chris Hand. I'm the adorable witch and that's 'Dewayne the little Devil' on his knees in the middle. How appropriate that his birthday is on Halloween!

Samantha and Galyne in front of my trunk. Yes, Galyne was a rock star. I'm sure she and Jessica planned that ahead of time.

 That's Hayden as a hippie and Emmaline, turned around getting candy, is a genie. They looked so cute.

I bet they let their mom's help with their costumes.

Jess and Sam would NEVER do anything CRAZY like that!

 Below is Samantha with Bryson. When Sam had visited all the other trunks she came back to ours so she could be in charge of the candy distribution. We gave out Reese's Pieces (get it), Milky Way bars (yep, I know you got that one), and well Tootsie Pop's because the kids just love them, they didn't go with the space them.  

 As you can see, Samantha took her job VERY seriously. She kept a close eye on the candy for me! That's MaKenna as a clown.

It was so much fun and we always end the night with a hay ride. This year they had a special treat, someone jumped out of the bushes and scared the hebejeebees out of everyone!

Here's my bulletin board with the scripture theme, My kingdom is not of this world from John 18:36.

And artwork my kids did during children's worship .

Below is a picture of my trunk. It was based on E.T. and I had a video playing of the movie on the computer in the middle. Everyone just kinda looked at me funny wondering what E.T. had to do with Jesus. I had the last laugh. A few days after Halloween I found a post on the parallel of E.T. to Jesus Christ. 

 Here's the excerpt below:

In his chapter “Christians in Our Culture” in The Doctrine of the Christian Life, Frame writes, Steven Spielberg’s character 

E. T. is, I think, a genuine Christ figure:

 recall the themes of preexistence, growth, teaching, miracle, healing, death, resurrection, and ascension. 

Spielberg denied this parallel, but in my view it is objectively there, even if Spielberg was unconscious of it. The reason is that the human mind has a need for a gospel like that of the New Testament. Those who don’t accept that gospel often instinctively give to their idolatrous inventions powers parallel to those of Christ. (Page 902, footnote 7, emphasis added)