Barnyard Boo

We went to the Barnyard Boo at Thanksgiving Point with my friend Kamie. Kam is my college roomie from back in the day. The kids had a blast. Here are a few of the activities they have for the kids to do.

They bring in a real cow and let the kids give milking a whirl. Cole thought this was pretty cool. Ariah gave it a try, and Ambra wouldn't get anywhere near it.

The best was when Cole asked, "Mom, do we really drink that cow's pee?"

We got their faces painted. Cole got a skull, and the girls chose rainbows.

We went with these cute little bugs.

Ariah could have spent all day next to the animals. Her and this cow became great friends.

Look at Ariah's legs in this picture. She is really taking some bonding time. I love it.

THey loved doing the pony rides. I thought Ariah would be nervous, but I was wrong...

...very wrong. She totally loved it.

Halloween Loot

Adam's mother loves Halloween time. She usually tries to make a visit to our home this time of year. When she comes, the children get spoiled. Look at all of this loot. She brought a huge garbage bag full of surprises, candy, decorations, coloring books, Halloween shirts, and headbands, snacks, etc. The kids were in heaven.



On Halloween, we went to our wards Truink or Treat and then we got in the back of the van and Daddy drove us around. Yes, yes, I know. This is the cheater way, but the kids LOVED it, and we raked in the sugar. What you see down below, is only about 1/3 of his final stash.

On Halloween night, our tradition is to hollow out a pumpkin and we bake our dinner inside of it. THis year we did that, but we also made potato soup to put inside our cute little pumpkin soup bowls.

Adam's mother made these darling pirate costumes for the children. She really made this pirate for Cole's birthday party, but could see the green envy in Ambra's eyes...

...so Ambra got a pirate costume too. They were beautiful pirates.

Halloween Festival!

I swear I'm going to be better about this posting thing. I am letting everything else get in the way. Oh well, better late than never.

I love Halloween time. Halloween is about the time that I relinquish myself to fall. I can say that I am finally owning up to the fact that it is not summer anymore and I need to prepare myself for colder weather.

It is also a time to break out the pumpkins, sweaters, and traditions. I love this time that I get to decorate pumpkins with the kids (we do candy instead of carving - you can see some of our creations in the above picture). We start doing more craft projects, and we seem to bake alot more too (that must be where those extra pounds start coming in). The kids start the countdown to Halloween and pumpkin patches, hay rides, and corn mazes start to pop up everywhere. Love it.

Our stake put on a carnival for the primary children. Eating a donut with no hands hanging from a string - can it get any better?

Our cute little friends. Right to left is Ambra, Eli, Autumn, Bailey, Nathan and Wyatt. We go every year with friends to the city carnival. It is free in Layton and they do such a great job for the kids. They had a blast.