Fun Runs and Treasure Hunts

Halloween for us this year began with the Creepy Crawl race out at Palmer Lake. Bayley paid the entrance fee and ran in the 5K and got the cool t-shirt.

The shirt Bayley is wearing in this picture is actually from The Great Pumpkin Run earlier in the month, not the run she is actually running in, but it is conveniently Halloweenish anyway. Can you see the pumpkin design?

After the official 5K race they had a 1 mile race around the lake for kids under 12 and their running companions--so each of our younger kids ran with a big brother or sister.

Here is Noah at the finish line. I believe he was the second runner to finish.

And Ronan already in costume.


And Liam. Who was reluctant at first to run, but then loved it.

And finally Fionn, who fell only moments before this at the last turn, but was determined to finish.

Then everyone who wasn't already in costume got dressed up and we had the now traditional Halloween treasure hunt (right after the equally traditional photo shoot).

A fairy princess. Honestly, it is not too unusual for Fionn to be dressed like this.

Han Solo.

Robin Hood.

Sid. (from Toy Story) I painted that skull on the t-shirt the night before. Pretty good, huh?

Deb. (from Napoleon Dynamite)

Edmund? Peter? A generic knight? It is a versatile costume. And, for those of you who are wondering, yes, the sword is just a lame prop and behind that shield it actually has no hilt, but is, in fact, just a blade.

Well, Erin is a pirate, but Bayley is mostly someone who never came up with a costume idea but had run in a run that morning and acquired a conveniently colored t-shirt.

Kegan is obviously a demi-god (the question being which of his parents is the god), I have no idea what Rhys is. Cool glasses though, huh?