Friday, November 25, 2011

Halloween Festivities

I downloaded these pictures forever ago and they got stuck in a random folder and I just stumbled onto them and realized I never blogged about our Halloween Fun Day!  So even though it's over a month late, here were all the fun activities we did!

We started out at the pumpkin patch, a tradition we do every year!  We love Packs Pumpkin Patch in Farmington, we go there every year.  The kids absolutely love the little hay maze they have!


Tate was still a bit too young to run around, so we let him just sit in the stroller and watch the kids.  He wasn't sure what was going on, but he was more than entertained watching all the kids.


Hailey and Branson are best buddies and usually run around together, most of the time holding hands.  It's so fun to watch them play together!  Jocelyn and Mylee each took turns running around with Hailey too, so many fun cousins to play with, Hailey was in heaven!


Zach loved running around the hay maze and trying to keep away from Hailey - for some reason, that's the funniest thing to him.  He did pause for a minute though so I could take his picture.


Once they had their fill of the hay maze, it was off to chose the PERFECT pumpkin to take home.


It took a while and a lot of looking to find that perfect one!


After pushing Tate around in his stroller, I realized we weren't going to be able to make it much further, so his Daddy graciously pulled him around in the pumpkin wagon - Tate absolutely loved it!


Things got even more exciting when kids started putting their pumpkins in the wagon with him.  He thought that was so neat and couldn't stop looking at or touching them!


The kids came back from their pumpkin hunting and thought Tate was so cute sitting in the wagon, so we grabbed a quick picture of all 3 of them.


Of course, we had to grab a quick family picture too!


After everyone had their pumpkin, we headed back to the hay maze and then got a quick picture with Nana and Papa.  Tate was not cooperating - he was more interested in the pumpkins than the camera!


They had this little area with a bunch of huge pumpkins and I thought it would be fun to get a picture with all the grandkids sitting on a pumpkin - none of my pictures turned out that fabulous, but it was cute anyway.


This one was by far my favorite picture of the whole day!  I just love these three kids!


After we left the pumpkin patch, we headed back to Nana and Papa's house for some more fun!  The first order of business was to make some masks.  Here's Hailey in her cat mask.


And Zach in his mummy mask.


Tate also had a mummy mask, but he was more interested in playing with grandpa's sprinkler tools and box than wearing his mask.  He was hilarious, he played with these for over an hour.


Libby played with some toys and practiced walking around.  She was on the verge of walking and was so cute - especially those shoes, how darling are those?


After the masks were done, the next order of business to was to get painting their pumpkins.  Hailey of course chose pink.


Zach started off with yellow.


Since there was NO WAY I was going to let Tate paint his pumpkin, we found some plastic face items that you could just push into his and Libby's pumpkins.  He seemed fine with that since he was more interested in the sprinkler stuff.  But I did get a quick picture of him with his finished pumpkin.


After that the kids had a blast playing.  A little bit later, we had dinner, and then was the final activity - trick-or-treating at Nana and Papa's house.  This is really a fun tradition and kids love getting dressed up in their costumes and trick-or-treating the different room in the house to get all sorts of candy and treats!  I was holding Tate during the trick-or-treating, so I didn't get any pictures, but we did get a picture outside of everyone in their costumes.  They were all so cute!


And here's one last picture of our policeman, cheerleader, and little dalmation dog in front of their pumpkins. 


We all had a wonderful time and did so many fun activities!  The kids loved everything about the day and loved most especially playing with their cousins.  Thank you Nana and Papa for everything!  As Hailey put it on the way home:  "That was the funnest day ever!"