Halloween 2012

I was sort of a delinquent photographer this Halloween, so this post will be brief!  But I do just want to share a few pics of the kids in their costumes.  Daphne and Tori fell in love with these Jasmine costumes that we found at TJ Maxx, and since they love to match whenever possible, they decided to both be Arabian Princesses.  I wanted to dress up this year, and I found a fantastic Cleopatra wig for super cheap at Zurcher's.  So I borrowed a dress from my practically grown up niece, Sydney and voila: Cleopatra!  

Disclaimer:  Yes, I am completely aware that Cleopatra and Jasmine hail from two very different countries.  This was really just a coincidence.  :)

Here we are all dressed up for the Trunk Or Treat at our Church:

Here we are on Halloween!  Isaac wanted to be the Grim Reaper (again), so we mixed it up a little and got him a mask to go with his costume. Not really my taste, but he's a boy!   The weather was incredibly mild.  Sometimes it is ridiculously cold here on Halloween and our kids put on these adorable costumes only to cover them up with Parkas.  But this year was perfect! I think the high for the day was 78 degrees.  They ran around the neighborhood and were so happy!  If it hadn't been a school night, they could have kept going for hours.  It kind of reminded me of Halloweens from  my own childhood in Texas, where we came home sweaty instead of shivering!

On Halloween, my wonderfully talented niece, Sydney, offered to come over and do my make up so I would look more like Cleopatra!  Didn't she do a great job?  We had a wonderful Halloween and we hope you did, too!

Pumpkin Patch with the Johnson Cousins!

Matt and I really wanted to take the kids to a fun Pumpkin Patch to celebrate Fall this year.  We have taken them to a few different places in the past and the results kind of vary.  We have been to places where it really is just a pumpkin patch with a mini corn maze, so you really only pay for your pumpkins. And that's ok.  We have also been to Black Island Farms, where there are farm animals, magic shows and slides and they take you on a Hay Ride to choose a pumpkin.  Sounds fun, right?  Yeah, well they charge like $ 14 bucks a person!   I mean, it's just a Pumpkin Patch, it's not Six Flags or something!  Seriously.  

So, when we heard about Green Acres Farms in Willard, we were excited!  There was no charge to enter and they had lots of fun activities!

 

We got to have our Johnson cousins with us as well, which made the whole day even more fun! The above pic is Corbin, Daphne, Victoria, Isaac and Penny!  We stopped to look at some of the horses on our way in.

We stopped to take a ride on the little train:

Victoria, Corbin and Daphne:

They had so much fun that we rode this a few different times!

Penny and I on our way to the Pony Rides-  she's really excited!

There were only two ponies: Prince Charles and Queen Elizabeth, so they had to take turns:

Victoria:

Luke:

Daphne:

Corbin:

Isaac:

We had a blast!  I hope they do it again next year.  We also did face painting and they had some craft booths, etc.. They did Karaoke, which was quite painful to listen to... so Matt and I thought about doing a reprise of Ice, Ice Baby.  but alas, they only had country music.  maybe next year, Green Acres! 

The only thing we didn't do was get a pumpkin!  We spent all our cash on the ponies, funnel cakes, and face paintings and we were in Willard, so there were no ATMS anywhere.  But we had fun anyway and we found some decent pumpkins at the grocery store.  This honestly was the most beautiful Fall I can remember in Utah.  The colors have been so vibrant and the weather has been gorgeous.  Wish it could stay forever.  Happy Fall Y'all!