Halloween

We always enjoy Halloween!  Here are some of the things we did:

We went to Rowley's Red Barn to get pumpkins.  We had never been there before, but we had heard it was fun. We went on a hayride out to the pumpkin patch to choose our pumpkins.  They also had an apple bin maze for the kids.  Just a warning: if you go after dark, take a flashlight.  We assumed there would be some sort of lighting at the pumpkin patch, but there isn't.  So, Benjamin was wandering around in this huge pumpkin patch and would exclaim every few minutes, "Hey, I found a pumpkin over here!"  He sounded like he was looking for Easter eggs.  Luckily, lots of other people there had flashlights, and we borrowed one so that we could choose some decent-looking pumpkins.

We carved the pumpkins a few days before Halloween.

And here we are on Halloween, all dressed up for trick or treating.  Last year, we probably only got about 60 trick or treaters because the weather was stormy. We had over 200 trick or treaters this year, and we nearly ran out of candy! 

Benjamin was a ninja.

Daniel refused to be anything "cute, gross, scary, or a profession."  So, we made him into I-15.

Wayne wasn't as excited about dressing up this year, so he pulled out his Perry the platypus shirt.

On the other hand, I like dressing up in elaborate costumes.  And all of the little girls oohing and ahhing over my costume when they came trick or treating made me happy.