Halloween!!

Happy Halloween

Yes, I'm finally blogging about Halloween. Granted it was a couple of weeks ago, but hey but late than never is always my philosophy.

Michael was a rock star. Alex was Obi-wan. Emily was little red riding hood.

We picked pumpkins from a great pumpkin patch, backyard pumpkin patch.

Boy oh boy!! Those pumpkins would not give up their vine. After dragging it across the yard it they finally let go.

Maybe not the biggest and roundest but hey I wasn't tricked into paying for those fraud patches were they just toss them out of trucks. This was the real deal, vines and all.

We went to the school parade. The kids were very excited!!

Take a quick look as all the kids run past!

Emily missed walking in the parade so we went to her class and took a picture!

After school we went to Grandma and Grandpa's house to carve pumpkins, play games, and make a craft. Zach, Tonya, and Amanda must have got this beauty at the store. See how round and perfect it is.

Michael loved the pumpkin guts the best! Ahhh, Smells good! NOT!

Grandpa, always the perfectionist follows the proper protocol and procedure for pumpkin carving.

Alex, go get those nasty pumpkin guts!!

We even got Mike involved! It was a hard task but proof is in the picture!

After carving his pumpkin, Michael wrote a whole story on his pumpkin about who this pumpkin was and where he came from.

Alex loved his teeny, tiny pumpkin!

Emily's proud display!

Grandpa's pumpkin mouth! Yumm!!

We all made Halloween pictures! How exciting!

Alex was very scary!

Emily chose a cute pumpkin. Ohhh! How precious!

Then we ate donuts on a string. Tonya, Amanda, Alex, and Grandpa. Go get them!!

It took Alex forever, but he stuck with it until the end. We never take food from this guy!!

Finally!!! This is much easier than chasing it around the string.

Emily and Michael ate sugar free life savers off the string. That took all of 5 seconds! Done!!

And what party would be complete without bobbing for apple quarters. Michael took forever. He was not about to get his face wet. However the higher your hinney the better chance you have.

Emily was so proud of her apple quarter.

Zach dove right in the bowl for his.

Amanda swore she was the best at this game so you better watch out!

Halloween night we are all doped up on candy! One last picture face paint and all!

Alex loved going from house to house and getting candy. "That was so nice of all those people to just give us candy!" He was not happy to have to go home and call it quit.

Little red made it the whole way this year! And they even gave out pixie sticks! Which by the way are not made from sugar!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

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Iron County Fair

This last weekend we went to Parowan for the Iron County Fair. We had a blast at Nana and Papa's house. Our good friend Megan and her kids came with us. On Saturday we played dress-ups. The kids had a lot of fun dressing up in the great costumes from the playroom. Michael's wearing a doctor's outfit with his favorite glasses. He thought the glasses were hilarious.

Kaden's favorite was the wigs. He found a matching green wig with long hair.

Michael's a cute french man.

Alex would only put on the cowboy hat and a cape. Michael loved the hats and glasses.

Kaden makes such a cute little girl! We all made such a fuss over how cute he looked so he would put on wig after wig and make us laugh so hard.

Papa and Nana in the kitchen. Nana is a great cook and throws the best parties!

Another of the kids' favorites was the pedal go-carts. Even Daddy took the go-cart for a spin around the driveway.

We went to the fair and pet the animals at the petting zoo. Here's Emily, Michael, Cameron, and Alex petting the goats and sheep.

We went to the carnival were the prices were outrageous but the kids had a lot of fun. Michael and Emily loved the Tornado ride.

Alex, Kaden, and Cameron rode the car ride. "What you lookin' at?"

The next day after church we ate delicious peaches from Papa's orchard. Cameron loved the peaches and anytime Papa walked to the orchard Cameron would follow him and be right at his side until Papa peeled the peach and Cam ate it all. He would shove complete half peaches and practically swallow it whole to make sure and get the rest of the peach. He was so cute!

The kids played Badminton with Papa and horseshoes.

Then Papa took us to the gap where he showed us the dinosaur footprints. Emily is pointing to a little dinosaur footprint.

Alex is looking at a huge footprint while Papa is teaching us a lesson on conglomerates.

We also saw the pictographs. Just think the people who made these pictures lived a hard life and they must have thought that whatever they were writing about was very important to take the time to chisel it into this rock. I wish I could read it.

Monday we went to the parade where they had beautiful cars,

horses,

marching bands (Alex is watching),

even snowmobiles (Arcitc Cats of course)

And what parade would be complete without the fire trucks! Alex, Daddy, Michael, and Emily are watching the noisy trucks roll past.

After the parade we went back to Nana and Papa's house for a great barbecue. We had the infamous hot dog that Megan looked so forward to, salad, baked beans, and a wonderful Oreo cake. The boys begged to eat Oreo cake for 2 days.

Finally, we get to enjoy the cake! Yummy!

Kaden thought it was spoon licking good!

Open wide Alex! It's delicious!

We had a great time and everyone was sad to go home!

Thanks for a wonderful time!