Church Halloween Party

We went to our church Halloween party this weekend.  It was at a park and, lucky for us, the weather wasn't too cold.  Maybe in the low 60s, high 50s.  There were no costumes and no trunk or treat, but there were some different activities and dinner.  Here Matthew practices on the skiis.

 Grant plays one of the games.

Anna on the skiis.  We did a ski race later with four people on each set of skiis.  I was on a team with Matthew and two other kids.  We didn't do very well, but it was fun.

There was also a cake walk.  The cake walk caused some consternation.  They let each winner take a dozen cupcakes, but there were only about 12 dozen cupcakes, so some kids had a dozen and others got nothing.  One family ended up with three dozen cupcakes while others got nothing.  They could have left a dozen or two cupcakes for the non-winners to each grab one...I thought that would have been a good solution.  So our kids didn't win and were very sad that they didn't get any of the cupcakes.  

Further consternation - at one point I thought the person running the cake walk had said they were done, so I told Anna she could go get a cupcake (there were still some left at that point).  The person running the cake walk seemed really annoyed with me and I felt embarrassed when I realized they weren't really done.  But not to worry, we didn't end up with any cupcakes.

So I don't know, but I feel like I should never complain about how church activities are run after having run many pack meetings and hearing only complaints from people about how it could have been done better.  So I'll stop complaining now.

Matthew did win this dangling donut game and got another donut out of it.  So he was happy.

These were the cupcakes we made.  Some have M&Ms on top and inside and the others are plain with LOTS of sprinkles, courtesy of the kids.  Our cupcakes were the first ones to go during the infamous cake walk, so we have that at least.  And we had a few leftovers at home.  This Halloween party was much smaller in scale than our last ward...our Colorado ward was kind of huge with lots of children.  This one is smaller.   But we still had a good time.