Halloween and Pumpkin Fun!

A week before halloween we actually found a Saturday nice enough to venture out. We loaded the kids and headed to the pumpkin patch. The kids took a ride in barrels pulled by a tractor, had duck races, ran through a maze, and milked a wood cow (that may explain my previous post!). Then they found the corn pit (I'm not sure what it's called). It's basically an area surrounded by hay bails and filled with dried kernels of corn. They played in it for half an hour, we bribed them out so we could go pick our pumpkins, and then they got in it again till we lured them out to go home. Who knew that dried corn would be so much fun.

The following Monday (Family Home Evening) we carved our pumpkins. Just like last year, FeFe cleaned out the pumpkins and NayNay carved. And the final result....

NayNay's is on the left and FeFe's on the right. If you know my kids well, then you'll understand how well they reflected themselves in the pumpkins! Crazy kids!!

For Halloween this year NayNay convinced us to let him be his beloved Bumblebee (the transformer, not to be mistaken for the insect).

FeFe quickly decided she wanted to be Tinkerbell but I was not impressed with any of the store costumes. Thanks to Aunt Pickle, we were able to make FeFe into a beautiful fairy with sparkles, a bun, a magic wand, and special shoes! She looked amazing.

Unfortunately for NayNay, FeFe's choice of costume led all those who do not know of transformers to think that he was A bumblebee, not THE Bumblebee (get it...Fairy and insect, makes sense). He was quick to correct everyone but also let them know that it was in fact a costume and he could not turn into a car or save them from danger. Needless to say, it was a wonderful Halloween!