Hallelujah Party

The church Adam's dad now pastors throws a "Hallelujah Party" every year on Oct. 31. Kids can dress up (or not if they don't want to) and come play tons of games to earn slips of paper good for a small, medium, or large prize. Ryan got dressed up in his cowboy costume and had a great time at the party with Grandpa and Grandma Boone.

He didn't really understand the concept of many of the games, but with some great luck (and maybe some help from the workers now and then) he managed to get many prize slips. It was actually refreshing to see him playing games for the pure joy of throwing a football instead of doing it to get something.  Some of the games he played included Plinko, Sponge toss, Toilet Bowl Toss, Football Toss, and "Pick a Lollipop".

He picked out some great prizes including stickers, a twisty straw, coloring book, maracas, fruit snacks, and M&Ms (I had to let him have a LITTLE bit of candy, but don't tell him that I ate the rest of the bag a few days later).

Throughout the night, they drew numbers for prizes using the number on each child's wrist band. As we got ready to leave, we stopped by the marker board and were surprised to see his number! He got to pick a prize and chose a Thomas the Tank Engine DVD with a little wooden train car! We let him watch it a few days later and he was transfixed! He liked saying all the different engines' names.


Once we got home it was too late to serve trick-or-treaters (Shoot! Whatever will I do with a bag of Reeses PB Cups, Kit Kats and Twix?) but we did have one special visitor. My aunt stopped by with a treat bag for Ryan. We let him eat one of the delicious banana chocolate chip muffins she brought.



I'm sure there will come a day when he'll want to dress up in some horrible zombie killer costume and stuff his face with candy all night (if he is any bit my son, the last part of that is a given), but for now I'm holding on to my muffin-eating cowboy.

And I may or may not be plotting where he can wear those red boots again.