"Get a treat"

We took the fam to our annual trunk or treat at the church.  Enjoyed some chili and cornbread and then played carnival games until it started to get dark.  One of the guys in our ward had set up this cool game called Ghost Cannon creating fog inside of a trash can and the kids could aim it and hit the plastic to try and hit one of the Halloween items with the fog ring.  It was really neat and the kids had a blast learning how to aim it and create a perfect ring.  

Every time someone would drop a new candy in his bucket, Hudson would stop, take it out and inspect it and talk to me about it.  He would play for awhile and then stop and look inside his bucket to check on everything.

Hunter joined up with a group of friends to go around playing games and Deke and I wandered from game booth to game booth letting the kids play the games.  The girls loved tossing the sponge at Bro. Crockett and trying to douse him.

Hudson's favorite was the bean bag toss.

Once it was dark we started going trunk to trunk.  We had been talking to Hudson about everything and explaining what to do.  He had been pretend trick or treating for two weeks with Ave and Em.  The cutest thing was that instead of saying trick or treat he would say "get a treat."  At the first two cars he hung back and watched the other three and by the third one he was ready.  Tailing behind them he walked up, "get a treat!" he said jubilantly to the couple and then offered up his bucket.  They started laughing and he almost bailed until they dropped some candy in.  He looked back at us grinning and then ran to catch up with the big sisters.  Every single car he said "get a treat!" and then held up his bucket.  He wouldn't let us help carry it so he would hold it until it was practically dragging behind him and we made him empty some out into the back of the stroller.

After all the trunks had been visited we stopped by the cotton candy stand because if you are going sugar overload might as well do it right.  Then piled into the car where we all listened to Hudson jabber away about trick or treating and candy and "keletons" over and over again.