Hallelujah Harvest

I'm a bit annoyed that all of a sudden, blogger is uploading my pictures in some crazy order!! Is anyone else having this issue? I'm too tired to mess with it, so I'll apologize now for the crazy order these are in. Good grief!!

Anyways, our church had our annual "Hallelujah Harvest" on Sunday night, and it was amazing!!! Totally packed with the community, which was AWESOME to see!! This was the first year that our family volunteered to be a "trunk or treater" car, so we got to decorate and hand out candy to all the kids. I loved getting to serve in this way, because I got to see each and every face of the kids as they came by. It was fabulous. The kids loved it - totally had a ball. We are so blessed to be part of a church that commited this year to really reach out to our community by making this even free. I know that it made an impact!!! It was GREAT!

Katy, Callie, and Sadie (Yoda) at the end of a long night!
A tired, and slightly afraid little bumble bee (this guy behind us kept revving his motorcycle, and it was freaking her out...)

Carter the puppy

Emily, as Little Red Riding Hood (isn't that the CUTEST costume?)

Ryan (Superman), Niko (uh-oh...is it a Power Ranger?), and Anderson (Dash)

Erin (Dalmation...I'm sure a very specific one too!)

Parker is Optimus Prime in this shot....it was the only picture I could snag of him...he was too fast!

Greyson (Orioles player...again, I'm sure a specific one...) and Alexander (a very HAPPY Darth Vader!)

Josiah (Obi Wan Kenobi), Jacob (Batman), and Bradley (Spiderman)

These are Kristina's girls. She is in my Weds. biblestudy and in our new small group on Sunday mornings. Her girls were Strawberry Shortcake and...a strawberry! Isn't that adorable???

Maggie & Abby (Stephanie is the girl I run with every week - these are her girls)

BROTHERS!

Very much enjoying the pony rides

Mandy Jansen was the one that roped us into trunk or treating with them. We both decorated our vans in a star wars theme, and this is the whole gang of Star Wars people!

Sadie was adorable at Yoda!

I just couldn't resist taking this kid's picture! Hilarious!

Luke (dinosaur) and Zach (indian)

Grayson (firefighter)

Obi Wan Kenobi & Darth Vader (Josiah & David) in front of the 'galaxy'...note how serious Josiah is posing. He said he was "using the force"...

The kids had so much fun playing together while we were getting set up. We even found a clone trooper a few cars down that wanted to join our forces! :)

Callie was a bumble bee. I sort of forgot about a costume for her because the boys' costumes were so easy...they just picked one from their dress up collection. I had to call a friend at the last minute to borrow one...but wasn't she cute? I loved the little stinger!

The Schrodt gang! Jacob woke up from his nap that afternoon and was in quite a mood. He was crying that he didn't want to be Darth Vader and said he was scared. Of course, he's been pretending and dressing up for months and months and has been fine! He just was in a mood. So whatever - he picked another costume from his closet and said he would be Batman instead. So David got to wear the Darth Vader costume instead! :)

Good vs. Evil battles it out in the front yard!