Trick-or-Trunk!

It's our third year to be a part of St. Bernard's Trick-or-Trunk, started in 2006 for kids to have some Halloween fun after Katrina. This year our team decided to be super heros and painted some comic book scenes and cutouts to decorate our truck. We had a bunch of candy, but we had over 2000 things of popcorn to hand out too that a friend from here donated! There were a little over 2000 kids, I believe, because the people next to us had 2000 cups to handout and were just a shy short. It was a lot of fun for the kids--we were one of the last vehicles and they were really excited to see a bunch of their favorite super heros in person ;). Here are some pictures from the day that our friend Amanda took.

Here we are- Aaron was Flash, I was Super Girl, and Everly was batgirl! She was really excited to dress up- we had been practicing the batman theme song with batgirl in it for a month now!


Here's our group with our friends: Parish President Craig and local business man Mark.


Our counselor and his wife, Ron and Becky Koval, were Everly's "bat family"! They're daughter is whose wedding Everly is in in December.


This took us over 3 days to do! It was tedious but a lot of creative fun! :)



The kids could take pictures as Wonder Woman (here's Everly)...


...or Super Man! Since I was Super Girl we had to take a picture :)


A lot of the kids wanted to take pictures with us...


...a lot were dressed like us!...


...and some we're afraid of us, especially Lucas as the Thing from the Fantastic Four!


Some of our new friends joined us later in the day as the Incredibles- they are Robert, David, Meghan and Liz- all from Clemson University and living and serving here now at the Methodist Church and coming to the Gathering too.


By the end of the day, Everly was all tuckered out! But not too tired to climb up into the steering wheel!


She looked like she was resting here, but really she is reaching for my phone! sneaky girl :)

One rough day at the park leads to X-rays...

yesterday we were at the park practicing for our cabbage ball game. when we were done and standing around talking, Everly started throwing a ball down the sidewalk and incline to me and then i would throw it back a little way for her to get. unfortunately, she was leaning down at the edge of the sidewalk and fell head first onto the cement. Ow! She was scratched up and upset, so mommy thought it would be good to go to the playground.

Ev loves to slide, and we didn't have much time so we headed up the playground for one quick slide. she slipped again and fell, just upsetting her more. so i grabbed her and headed down the slide. now, this slide was really fast, which scared me a little bit since she was on my lap, and Ev's foot accidently got caught between me and the slide as we went down. It yanked her foot back really quick and she started crying again. I knew it had probably hurt her, but I thought she was more just still upset from falling and probably ready for a nap. When we got home I told Aaron to put her down to make sure she could walk on her foot since and she couldn't! it was such a sad sight seeing my baby limp and cry! I wanted to go to the Urgent Care in town right away, but Aaron thought it would be better to give her a bath, eat dinner, etc.

So, we had our game at 10:30 last night and Everly was spending the night at our counselors home since it was a late game. We thought we'd wait until the morning since her foot didn't swell up or anything, but she still wasn't walking on it. This morning was the same so we called the Dr. and she had us go to Children's Hospital here to have x-rays done. No visible fracture, though they said it could appear in a couple days (baby's are a little different, or maybe the x-ray just didn't catch it). So, now we're just waiting, watching to see if she will try to stand on it, and giving Ibuprofen. Hopefully it's nothing. Please pray that our little one will heal soon so she can run around again!