First Halloween Pics

The first holiday season pictures. :) We went to the "Haunted Homestead". It was way too cute. Just perfect for all the little kids. They had a great time. I even think all the adults enjoyed themselves. Daniel, Janet, Allan, and Ariana all went into a "For Older Kids" spooky house. I am sure it was a scare. ;) This first picture is of Don and Allan walking with some of the kids to the hayride. A hayride takes you to the trail. At the trail the kids get candy every little bit. Then on to the haunted homestead where the fun is just dying to meet you (I just had to throw that in there).

Poor Don! In big groups, someone always gets the "looking dumb award" and Don definitely got it in this one.





This guy was kind enough to show the kids that it is all pretend. "It is just people with masks." I think I repeated that about twenty times for the kids.



This one was on the hayride back to the cars and Hyrum did NOT want me to take any more pictures. That is just my favorite expression. My heart just melts thinking about the sound that went with it.

Park Again

Courtney called and invited us to the park. I really had to pause and think about it. Hyrum decided to have a bad day! But thankfully I ended up going later (after naptime) and it turned out to be great.


Doesn't this look familiar? He is pretending to be a lion. I guess it was bound to happen. Kids really do look up to their siblings.

This was the winner for the day. They absolutely loved the tire swing. I absolutely love that it was Courtney pushing them. :) When I go the park I feel like it is a break for me too. Too much pushing interferes with my sitting on my rear time.

Renaissance Festival

I have been wanting to go to this festival since I married Don. I just have never done it and did not want to go alone. Ariana got the tickets and invited us to go with her and Allan. Allan ended up having to work. And then the day of Ariana calls in sick. :( But my wonderful husband heard all this and decided to make time and go with me. Yea! It turned out to be perfect weather and the kid's loved it. We are waiting for the jousting to start. We were told to cheer for England.
I loved seeing Adelyn cheering. She is the one to the left of the picture with the pink sweater with flowers.
I put Hyrum next to this statue to take a picture and he just couldn't stop staring at it. He just didn't know what to think of it. It took him a little bit of time to get close enough for the picture.

This is just a random picture. My kids love these carts.

Pumkin Patch

We had a good day at the pumpkin patch.We were hoping it had even more then it did, but how many times does that happen. You pay money to go somewhere and it's not as good as you thought it was going to be.:( Can't the world be perfect! I demand justice. Where is Don with his MAD video gaming skills when you need him to save the world from EVIL! That's my man!

It's a first! Finally, one of my kids has actually touched a bird.
I think Ariana captured Adelyn's mood perfectly. I just love taking her to fun places, and then have her whine to me about food. Nothing is fun enough till she gets candy or pop. ;)Ah, she takes after me.

This zip line was alot of fun for all of us.

Pumkins

On this day I was doing the laundry and looked incredibly bad. So when I went to go pick Elena up from the bus, the apartment office people came out (of course they all looked professional)and invited all the kids to decorate pumkins. How can any mom say no to that. The morale of the story is that your mama is always right when she tells you to look nice just to walk out the door of your house. The kids love decorated the pumkins.

It's a day at the park

This morning Don decided to sleep in and go to work late(we were up late watching Transformers). This just happened to be the day that Hyrum wakes up at 6 am. But the good news is that we went to breakfast at Cracker Barrel and then the kids and I went to the park with Janet and Jaxon.

Don just love to teach Hyrum all these awesome things. Pouring water on your head in a public area is just one of the many. Next I am sure it will be how to make fart noises under your arm.