October, we're almost there!

October has come and gone

I am finally writing about it

I am only 9 days late

Getting better

Warning: This post is soooooo

very stinking long

Apparently I take more pictures

when I actually have my camera.

Go figure

We started the month

seriously, October 1st

by having nap time

like this

I went to check on the baby

and found the Little Man

and Miss L

just talking to each other.

If we're not sleeping

at least we're bonding

It got cold in OK this month

Little Miss also got cold

I went to see what hats I had

and this is the only one that fits her

Good thing I think it's freaking adorable

on her

Our friends B and L came all the way from AZ to visit us

I did not get a single picture of them

Son of a gun!

I did take this picture

L and I went to Hancock's

and took G with us

He spent almost the entire time

in this chair

watching cars drive by.

He is ready to be an old man

who sits and waits for his wife to finish shopping

I read that Halloween is the most photographed holiday

I believe it

With a week worth of festivities

how can it not be?

We began our adventure

at a local pumpkin patch

with our friends the C's

where G promptly informed me

that he had to go potty.

Good job telling me!

Bad job telling me

when we were far away from a potty.

This is one of the few reasons I am jealous of boys

(and Nana, this shot is for you.)

Once we were relieved,

we decided to take the hay ride

to the corn maze

No, that is not grass

That is the corn maze

So pathetic

(in their defense,

the weather

was not conducive

for growing anything,

but weeds)

And that's what we got. :)

If you were able to find your way out of the corn maze,

and it was a close one,

you found this giant slide.

The kids LOVED it.

After getting their fill of sliding

we hoped back on the hay ride to go back

This is G with one of his dearest friends P

When you leave the pumpkin patch

you get to take a pumpkin home with you

It was a little creepy

because all of the pumpkins were almost identically the same

(except for the ones growing mold,

those were special)

Apparently, the only way Miss J could decide

was to test them out

by sitting on them.

An interesting method

that must have worked

She was very pleased with her choice.

The day after the pumpkin patch

we went to Storybook Forest (SF)

again with our friends, the C's

For those who do not know what SF is,

you're missing out

It is basically this trail through a state park forest

every 10 feet, or so,

a little display from a story is set up.

They have Rapunzel, Snow White, The Sword in the Stone,

The Three Little Pigs, Hanzel and Gretel,

The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, etc

At each stop they hand out candy

(which is the important part)

This year, it was a very warm day

so we saved GMan's real costume for later

and he pulled out his Tigger costume

from his dress up stuff

After you make it through the forest

They have games set up, and a hay ride to go on

the kids played all the games

won lots of prizes

then played with them

while waiting for the hay ride

This is not the greatest photo

I took it

with my phone

on a bouncing trailer

(ps - the sticker is G's that he put there,

I was obliging)

The next day,

when we were all tired

and already hopped up on sugar

We attended our play group Halloween party.

The kids got to decorate their own cookies,

make ghosts out of suckers

and a bunch of other stuff

The only thing G wanted to do

was play with the balloons that someone blew up

Perfect.

The day after that

G had a Halloween program at school.

He was so adorable

and did great singing his songs.

There was, of course,

more cookies and candy.

Good golly,

is Halloween over yet?

NOPE

Two days later

(yes we got a one day reprieve)

was our ward trunk or treat

G had a blast doing the cupcake walk.

He didn't care that he won

he just kept doing the walk.

Pretty sure he won like 5

He only ate the frosting of 2.

The actually trick or treating is what he wanted

He was a natural

(but what kid isn't?)

They started late

so I hurried the kids around the parking lot

and made it back to our car

only to discover a line there.

What in the world?

The man had packed our kid basketball hoop

and was making everyone shoot for their treat.

Wish I had my camera to take a picture.

Totally creative

Totally awesome

Totally took way too long.

We had fun but our kids were wiped out.

We got another break on Sunday.

Love that day of rest!

and then Halloween punched us right in the face.

It has become a tradition that we go eat dinner

at our friends the C's

(are you seeing a pattern?)

then the kids go trick or treating together

(Their neighborhood is more festive than ours)

This is out little dinosaur,

the triceratops.

What an intimidating reptile

Our sweet little cupcake

I think this costume fit her demeanor

PERFECTLY

Dad is making her crack up

makes my heart melt

After a weeks worth of celebrating

I am sick of Halloween.

I wonder

do people feel like this

after Hanukkah?

now that it's over,

Happy Halloween!