Pumpkin Patch Fun

Our kids have had the opportunity to go to more than one pumpkin patch this year. We took them to Cornbelly's last week. Then Tyler got to join Gawbie's preschool class at Hee Haw's on Thursday.

He loved the big white slide, the petting zoo, and picking out his pumpkin.

Just kidding, here is his real pumpkin.

Then we were invited back to Cornbelly's for no charge, so we took advantage of the invite. Tyler loved the minion. He kept calling him "silly guy."

On Friday, I took the girls to the farm right across the street from our neighborhood to pick out pumpkins for carving. I took this picture of the boys while we were waiting. I tried to get Camden to sit on the ground propped up against a bunch of pumpkins, but he wouldn't relax long enough for me to take the picture, so this is as good as it gets.

Now we just have to figure out when we are going to have time to carve our pumpkins before Saturday, especially since our kids are taking turns being sick right now.

Spelling Bee

Alyssa was in her school spelling bee again this year. She qualified to be in the school spelling bee by winning her class spelling bee. This year she was in the senior spelling bee so she was competing against kids all the way up to the 8th grade. Being in 4th grade made her one of the youngest competitors. As a result, we didn't really expect her to go very far. She did amazing. Here she is waiting for the spelling bee to start. She was chosen to go 6th out of 26(or 28 depending on whether you ask Alyssa or Danny).

She made it to the top nine, spelling 6(I think) words correctly. The highlight of the spelling bee was when she was asked to spell the word "mazel tov." Here is a video, but the word has 2 different spellings and she spelled it both ways for the judges. Little smarty pants.

We are so proud of her and openly admit that she can spell better than any of us. We have the feeling that she will have a few more spelling bees in her future. (I think that secretly she hopes to go to the national spelling bee someday.  We'll just have to see.)

Witchfest

I took the kids to the witch display at Gardner Village in West Jordan this week. We haven't been to see it since the first year that we lived here.  Even though it has been 4 years, a lot of the witch displays were the same. There was this lady sitting on a bench...

and this one using the outhouse.

I printed off a witches scavenger hunt this year and Alyssa had fun finding all of the witches on it. Ashley just had fun posing with all of the witches.

We invited Shannon, Kennedi, and Bree to come along. Here are all of the kids in front of the witch fishing with dynamite. Pretty impossible to get a shot with all of them looking at you.

 Here are some more cute pictures that I got.

After we finished the scavenger hunt, we stopped in at the Bakery to get the kids their cookie(for doing the scavenger hunt) and a donut(because they love donuts). As we were walking to the car, we saw a guy walking this baby alpaca around. Alyssa, Ashley, and Tyler loved petting it.

It was a fun afternoon.

Catching Up

Here is another catch up post. We took advantage of "Talk Like a Pirate Day" at Krispy Kremes this year. It will probably be our one and only time doing it since we were in line for 2 hours.  Danny and I decided we would much rather pay the $8 for each dozen than wait in a line like that again. Ashley insisted on wearing every piece of pirate attire that they had listed as acceptable on their website. We tried to get Tyler to wear the costume, but he wasn't into it so I ended up wearing his stuff to get our third dozen. I couldn't even eat the donuts because I was doing this fitness challenge thingy, but the girls enjoyed eating them for three days straight.
 

We took Casey to the Thanksgiving Point Gardens during their annual dog days. The girls thought it was so fun taking him somewhere besides the vet and they loved seeing all of the other dogs there. 

 Ashley had a field trip to the BYU Planetarium last week. I was able to go along, which she loved. I tried to explain to her how many hours a day I spent in this building during my college days, but I don't think she understood. She loved the planetarium show.

 We took the kids to our favorite pumpkin patch during Fall Break. We don't go there for the pumpkins, just for the fun. We happened to be there one of the 3 days that they had a dog show going on, so we got front row seats for it. The girls loved it. The boys...not so much. Here are some of the pictures from the day.

The Corn Maze was a Minion design this year.

 The kids all love this big corn crib. We buried Alyssa. She only got stepped on 4 times while she was under there.

 These wooden playsets are all over the pumpkin patch. They are different designs (airplane, truck, bus, boat, etc) but they all have a slide coming off of them. Tyler loved them.

 I meant to include this picture in my last post, but forgot. These kids sure love their Daddy. He loves them too!