Halloween Fun

Halloween Fun indeed! This weekend we hit just about any and every activity having to do with Halloween at Thanksgiving Point. It has me wondering just how much business they get from our neighborhood alone?

Moving on...

On Friday I took the kids to the Barnyard Boo along with some friends. It was a little overrated if you ask me, but the kids had a great time and that's all that matters right?! They had a plethera (I love that word haha) of activities including face painting, croquet, balloon animals, cookie decorating and more. As you can see we decided to do face painting first, at which Tyler decided he wanted a spider (I think he thought it would be more like spiderman, but he was thrilled all the same when he saw himself in the mirror afterwards).

I love this picture because Tyler's eyes are so sparkly!
A better view of the spider :)

Next we hit the wagon ride which is always a good time.

Megan and Tyler.. Don't you love how great these kids can pose for a picture.. *sigh*

After checking out the line for the pony rides and deciding to pass on that craziness we headed over to the balloon line. We ended up standing in line for a little over 30 min, just to have Tyler's balloon sword pop about 30 seconds after he got it. Fantastic! Luckily Heidi and Lynsey were still in line so we just sent him over to them and the nice clown made him another one free of charge. Now if we could just keep it from popping again that would be great! (It didn't pop, but we did end up losing it before the day was done... atleast he has a wonderful Daddy who just happens to possess that talent and can make him one whenever he wants)

Tyler didn't quite get how to hold the sword. I would try to have him hold it by the handle and he would just yell at me and turn it around this way! Oh well!
Megan and her pretty flower. It's bigger than she is!

Brooklyn waiting patiently in the shade while everyone else was having fun!

I don't think there is a better baby alive!

Tyler and Gavin having a sword fight. Gavin means business!

After stopping to get some Halloween tattoos and throw some footballs threw a big pumpkin target we headed over to the Cookie Decorating station. Now to be fair, I'm not sure that what was there counted as cookie decorating. Each child got a pumpkin shaped sugar cookie and a little dollop of white frosting on a popsicle stick... No sprinkles, no little candies, not even orange frosting! Good thing none of that really matters to them, because ultimately us moms would have ended up decorating the cookies and all they really wanted was to eat the cookies, but it did seem like a little more effort could have been made on their part. Am i right or am I right??

Brooklyn enjoying Tyler's "leftover" frosting. I'm a great mom aren't I! Giving my 11 mos old pure sugar to suck on.

Tyler enjoying his lame excuse for a "halloween" decorated cookie!

Us girls taking a much needed break from the 9 crazy kids we brought with us

The 9 crazy kids :) Is even one of them actually looking at the camera?

Finally after all that cookie fun a few of us (the ones who apparently lack the ability to tell our kids "no") decided to brave the pony ride line. Now the logical thing to do would have been to skip the pony ride since we can do that any time and come back another day. Well try telling a bunch of 2 yr olds that! Tyler, Gavin and Ava were dead set on riding those ponies! An HOUR and a HALF later we finally reached the front of the line. And wouldn't you know it, the second the pony started moving Tyler started screaming. Great! So now I was holding Brooklyn in one arm and keeping Tyler on the pony with the other. I literally thought my arm was going to fall off it was burning so badly! Tyler ended up loving the ride but wouldn't let me let go to save his life...or my arm :(

It was so cute, about half way through the line Brooklyn decided she wanted Jill to hold her. I tried to take her back after a few minutes because Brooklyn ain't no skinny minny and I was sure that Jill thought her arm was gonna fall off too, but Brooklyn didn't want me! Look how happy she is!

Here she is when she finally decided to come back to Mommy. Nice huh!

Brooklyn can't stop herself from smiling for too long though :)

Tyler loved the baby pony! The whole time he was riding he was laughing and saying "baby pony cute".

Now on to Halloween Fun Day 2! Saturday night Blake and I took the kids (sans Spencer as he was visiting his Dad all weekend) to the Scarecrow festival with our friends Joe, Jill and Gavin. There were all sorts of fun things to do, I'm sure it's no surprise though that we spent most of our time at the slides and the big blowup bounce houses. We had a great time watching the boys (Blake and Joe included) go down the giant blowup slides. Tyler and Gavin were having a hard time climbing the stairs to the top so the Dads stepped up and climbed up there with them.

As a side note, I think we need to work with Tyler on pushing through even if he gets a little stuck. There were a few of the slides that he had to manuever himself through a series of obstacles and without fail he would go in, be gone for a minute or two and then reappear at the start. *sigh* Oh well, atleast we didn't have to go in after him!

This pic is kinda cool, it looks like Tyler is surfing down the slide, but nope! Seconds later he was tumbling the rest of the way down. He didn't cry though, he's so tough!
Tyler and Daddy on the Castle Slide

Tyler jumping away in the Nascar bounce house

Brooklyn happy as can be in her stroller... come to think of it she spends alot of time in her stroller..

Blake having just as much fun as Gavin on the other side (interestingly enough I think this is when Joe shoved Gavin down the slide "Christmas Story" style haha)

Too bad Spencer wasn't there or this could count as our one and only family picture. Hmm...who do I know who could take us a real and much needed family picture...

After the boys were all slided out we walked through the Jr Haunted House which was fun, although I don't know that Tyler really knew what was going on. He wasn't scared atleast so that's good!

Next we stopped at the Finding Nemo fishing pond (which Tyler spotted right away and would not stop talking about... they definitely used Nemo as a selling point!) We paid a dollar and Tyler got to hold the fishing pole while they attached a sandwich bag full of little Halloween toys to the hook end. Blake called it a "bag of crap" but Tyler was happy so that's all that matters!

After dinner we let the boys play some of the carnival games. There were no prizes but they had a great time anyway!

Tyler trying to put one of the rings around his head like the dinosaurs and chickens

The boys playing with the frisbee that Gavin won at the fishing pond

Blake couldn't get enough of the slides so we went back for more

Brooklyn still in her stroller...seriously I feel bad that she is always in her stroller! Not that she complains! Atleast she's all bundled up right?

Tyler's signature grumpy face

All in all we had a great time! The boys got to jump their little hearts out and were all tuckered out by the time we got home. I love this time of year because of all the fun events and the time we get to spend with friends and family! I can't wait til next year.. maybe I'll even give the slides a try! Ha won't those make some great pictures!