Fairies, Fauns, and Babies: Fun times!

So, we've been busy, busy here! I bet you have been too! It is getting close to Halloween and that involves everyone. If you have kids or not you are busy around this date because.....
If you have kids; you have costumes, candy, Halloween parties, candy, pumpkin carving, candy, haunted house decorating, and of course candy!
If you Do Not have kids; you have candy, haunted house decorating, candy, pumpkin carving, candy, Halloween parties, candy and of course costumes!
So either way you can see how you are going to be busy this season. And now you probably want some candy, right?

Anywho, we had a Halloween party last weekend, a visit to a pumpkin patch this weekend, and another Halloween party next weekend. Include in that the playgroups we usually attend, the park playing we have to get in before the snow falls, and of course the pumpkin related crafts that have to get done and you get busy, busy, busy!

The soggy bottom kids!

To start with the Halloween party we threw, it was amazingly wet! Up this way, where I have the delight to live, it was cold and soggy all weekend! Of course that didn't stop the kids when it came to playing games in the rain. I think they enjoyed it better than when it is dry! Of course the mud makes it interesting when they are trying to jostle each other for position in the sack race! They also went on the hayride about twenty times! Once it was even pouring rain, and they had a blast! I made Pizza Bites (found on Pinterest!) and they disappeared so fast by the time I got them to the table they were half gone! I also made some Halloween popcorn (it was green and also found on Pinterest!) but it was barely touched! I thought it was good! So guess what came home with me!

Taking the tractor for a spin!

See they acted like animals!

This weekend we went to Anderson and Girls Orchards. They have all kinds of animals that the kids LOVE! I took Mr T and my nephews and they ran around for about four hours straight! They fed all kinds of animals and played on all the tractors they could find! They acted like a bunch of animals! Then we got to ride in a trailer pulled by a tractor to go out to the pumpkin patch and they all got to pick their own pumpkins. The older boys of course went for the biggest pumpkins but we told them they could only have the big ones if they could carry them out! Mr T walked around and around, every time I asked him if he wanted this pumpkin or this pumpkin he would say um NO! So finally I put two pumpkins next to each other and asked which one of them he wanted and that is how he picked his pumpkin! My oldest nephew (11) picked a pumpkin that weighed out to be twenty pounds! And yes he carried it out himself! Mr T's pumpkin wieghed out to be ten pounds. Then we bought some doughnuts and decided it was time to take off!

Mr T LOVED the pig races!

Picking a pumpkin!

Waiting to bring our pumpkins home!

The nephews doing the dirty work!

The next day (today) we all got together again and carved all the pumpkins that the kids have acquired ( seven all together I think). Mr T would not stick his hand in a pumpkin! The other boys had a ball pretending they were eating little pieces and trying to get the other ones to do it too!