Helping out the Conservation Dept...

The past three years our family has enjoyed what our local conservation department calls a Halloween Hike. They do not do anything that is scary, they actually do all this to promote education and family activities. They typically choose animals and such to portray through skits while explaining maybe what they eat or where they can be found etc. Well this years theme was Olympics and they did a great job, again!!! We were especially proud as this year, Sean joined the many other volunteers as one of the people in a skit. He loved it and would like to do it again next year. Anyway, in order for this to take place in the evening when all is dark, the conservation dept. lines the trails with carved pumpkins and they insert candles :-) Jack O' Lanterns. We don't celebrate Halloween as most do, but we do enjoy many activities this time of year and this Hike is one of them.

Here we are all getting directions on how the conservation dept. wants the pumpkins carved. This is mostly a quick talk on safety :-)


Sean digging deep to clean the pumpkin guts completely out!!


Logan looks to be doing a good job, but mom had to help him more than she would have liked.


Corben went through the whole thing alone :-) As with most activities, he was the first one done cleaning out the pumpkin, had the biggest pumpkin, and was the first one done carving... doing everything by himself ;-)


Brekyn was pretty slow, but she also did it mostly alone. Her friend Morgan was sitting next to her and she helped a bit! Brekyn did great!!

AND... for our finished products...

Sean...


Corben...


Logan...


Brekyn...


Griffin...

Here is Sean getting a first look at his "Flea" costume. We thought it was kind of funny, but the conservation dept. does a great job making several costumes for each part.


Sean becoming a flea :-)


Here is our little flea, or should I say HUGE flea in comparison to a typical flea :-)


Sean was in a skit with a "chigger", "lice", "tick", human, and ?? I can't remember, there was one more parasite. Anyway, the "tick" was a friend of ours, also in 7th grade. He is supposed to look like a bloated tick :-) Good job Cody and Sean!!!!