BOO!

Finally!! Sorry! We've been so insanely busy lately and I haven't had time to do laundry, let alone blog! But today I'm doing both! Here are all of our pumpkin patch/trunk or treat/halloween pictures. On the Friday before Halloween Ian took the day off from work and we went to a great pumpkin patch. We'd planned to go to Bates Nut Farm, but the fires were still burning in Valley Center and they'd come awfully close to Bates so I wasn't sure they'd even be open. We went, instead, to a place about 30 minutes north of us, called Tom's Farms. There was still smoke everywhere but we were so sick of being stuck in the house all week(literally...we didn't go anywhere, they cancelled Emma's school Wed-Fri), that we went anyway. I was so glad we did! They usually have all sorts of stuff going on at Tom's Farms during the weekend, but we went on a Friday and I'm sure we saved lots of money because of that. But we still got some pumpkins, walked through all of the stores, got some yummy candy, and took some fun pictures. There was a bird flying around like crazy in the bathroom! We ducked the whole time!

Mckenna was scared to go in their little blow up "haunted house." Emma was pretty convincing, but she still wouldn't go in until Ian went with her, holding her hand.

Once she was in, she was a happy camper.

Even with all the smoke in the air, the sun was pretty bright...as you can tell from Ian's squinty eyes. :)

Wishing well.

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Shannon and Jed came over Saturday night for our church's "Trunk or Treat." Usually everyone parks in the parking lot, opens their trunks and the kids go around from car to car, "Trunk" or Treating, but because of the smoke, we went around the inside of the church. Before that, though, there was dinner, a costume contest, a costume parade, and a few games for the kids. Ian spent all afternoon making a dessert to submit for the spooky dessert contest, but he spent so much time on it that we were a bit late and he only got second place...

Bootlegger Jed:

Pirate Mckenna and Alice in Wonderland Emma(who thought her name was Allison Wonderland).

20's Shan and a very distressed David Mickey

Ian's graveyard:

Shannon and Jed spent the night and came to church with us in the morning to watch our Primary Program(At church the kids from 3-11 have a presentation every year on all of the things they've been learning about all year. There are a few short talks and lots of songs. I'm the Primary Chorister, so I was in charge of all of the songs, and Emma had a small solo.). The presentation went great! I was much more nervous than I thought I should be...after all, it's not like I had any solos! The kids did really well. No one fell asleep, but I did have one sweet girl forget the words and start to cry. Overall it went really well and I was SO proud of those kids!!

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Halloween neighborhood trick or treating:

(Ian's a mummy)

Sorry for such a long post, but I had to get it all done before I switch the laundry! And, one more video for Jed...

The kids enjoyed the mattress we had out for Shan and Jed so we didn't put it away until Monday. Here's Mckenna enjoying it: