Here's the post where I catch up with all things related to Halloween.
A few weeks ago, we went to a GREAT Pumpkin Patch/Hayride/Farm/Corn Maze place about 30 minutes from here. Kids all had a great time. Mommy and Daddy wish it hadn't been an 'unusually hot' October Saturday...it was about 90 degrees by lunch...gross. Caramel apples, pumpkin donuts, and funnel cakes are NOT appealing at 90 degrees. Ok, just a little appealing.
Elise's favorite part was probably the COW TRAIN. Each "cow" was made of a big 55 gallon drum, linked together and pulled (FAST) by some crazy guy on a tractor. Seriously, they were FLYING. WAY to fast to be safe.
Elise LOVED it. So did our neighbor who is in the cow in front of Elise.
Hauling, I tell you.
Ainsley's favorite part was the Corn Kernel box (think Sandbox, but with hard kernels of corn. ingenious, really. And much cleaner than sand, too. Ainsley spent about an hour in there.
They also had a pumpkin cannon and a corn cob launcher. Both were awesome, but the adults appreciated them so much more than the kids.
They had fun playing around the pumpkins-for-sale area, they played on a gigantic bouncy thing, slid through an underground tunnel, we bought an overpriced pumpkin, and that was the day.
Mitchell seemed fine while we were there, but then crashed the minute we got in the car (kind of unusual for him). After he drank 1/2 a bottle and drooled it everywhere...
He started throwing up a few hours later and that was the beginning of FLU WEEK in the Moseley household...
Next up: PUMPKIN CARVING.
Kind of like Valentine's Day last year, I thought it would be great fun, family memories, etc... but I still don't quite have that right.
Everyone was excited, we got it all set up before Adam got home, the girls talked about it for hours. They wanted their pictures taken IN their special pumpkin shirts, etc...
Then, the work started. It was windy, and the pumpkin innards were gooey. They still helped some. For MAYBE 4 minutes.
Ainsley got bored and went down to the swingset.
Mitchell finished his bottle and just wanted to escape.
Elise only wanted to pick the seeds out of the goop, but not touch anything else. I chased all three kids around to keep them away from sharp knives, and Adam did 90% of the carving by himself.
Yay. Memories.
Phew. We're not even to Halloween weekend yet. I'll get to that tomorrow. Thanks!
Mitchell thought it was cute, too. The little guy laughs at EVERYTHING. I love it. He knows Mommy is hilarious, too.
Why does every event turn into Wrestlemania? I thought that only happened to friends like the Tinsleys, the Hawleys, or the Janneys, who have all boys... nope, my girls LOVE to wrestle, too!
Adam walking everyone around at the Trunk-Or-Treat event. They even got to climb inside a real firetruck- that's always cool.
Actual Halloween Night,
