Gathering The Umphrey Family Site

A bunch of the kids showed up at Grandma Elda’s at the same time on Halloween night. And of course she was ready with her huge bowl of candy and homemade popcorn balls.

During the day, the kids that didn’t get to go to school for a Halloween party went to Gwen’s for games, candy, food, and to show off their costumes. Here are Paisley the ladybug, Maysa the witch and all the heroes: Spiderman Isaac, Jack the fireman, Spiderman Bryce, Ironman Zoran and Superman Lex. 

Most of the kids seemed to understand the point of musical chairs. Lex spent all his time trying to get ahold of the ipod to steal the music. Regardless, they liked dancing around to the music and it was probably better that they didn’t completely get it. Then they weren’t upset when they didn’t win. 

The kids figured out the stem trick when they were bobbing for apples. I think all of them figured out how to get one. Todd offered to hold Paisley upside down for a better angle, but she wasn’t interested in his help.

Jack and Isaac were very good at being mummified. And Zoran and Maysa were the super-fast mummy-wrappers. They finished at exactly the same time. Bryce was very interested in all the games-- until it was time to participate. No one could quite get him to join in.

Halloween was before the cold weather this year. The afternoon was still sunny and the kids wore their costumes without too many extra layers trick-or-treating in the evening. Lex prefered exploring all the Halloween decorations to playing the outside games.