Halloween

We've been having a nice autumn.  Here are a lot of pictures of some of our fall adventures.

We went to a pumpkin patch...

made our way through a corn maze...

played in a corn sandbox.

Matthew even had fun in there.

We climbed the hay pyramid...

fed some animals.

Grant got slimed by the goat.

We got some hot drinks...

launched some pumpkins...

hay ride out to the pumpkin patch...

looking for a pumpkin in the mud.  It was muddy and rainy that day.

We found some pumpkins and got them back home.  

We were all a little muddy after that, but we had a good time.

Back at home we picked the pumpkins out of our own pumpkin patch.

This was the haul from our patch this year.

Anna and her teammate won a marketing competition at school.  

They had to name and design and make a print ad for a coffee brand.

She was teamed up with one of her friends from church and they won.

Way to go,  Anna!

Emma learned all about bats at school this week.

The kids had a Halloween event at their school

We went to the Cedar Creek Grist Mill for their annual cider press event

It was very beautiful

We pressed some cider...

and enjoyed nature.

We got to see some salmon jumping up the creek there.

We met up with some of our Guptill cousins there.

Lots of beauty and apple deliciousness

Later in the day we carved our pumpkins

Emma drew on some of them with marker

Even later we went to our ward trunk or treat

And here are all our pumpkins, ready for Halloween.

One of Emma's creations

And all lit up!

Anna and her friend were an angel and devil school girls

Ready to trick or treat

Mario and Luigi

John's costume had an inflatable Yoshi as part of it, so it looks like John, as Mario, is riding on Yoshi.

Matthew made this creepy scarecrow costume

I dressed us Maleficent to go with Emma's Aurora costume (same as last year).

It was a nice evening - decent weather and lots of Halloween merriment.

We noticed a few days later that our pumpkins are getting nibbled

This was a skeleton fave pumpkin that Grant carved.  

The bunnies (maybe?) especially liked this one.

Poor skeleton pumpkin

At the end of trick or treating we noticed John's Yoshi costume was all deflated.  When we got home we saw that the ring holding the air pump in the costume had fallen off while we were out.  So the costume wouldn't inflate any more.  The next morning I took a walk around the neighborhood, retracing out steps, in the rain and wind to look for the missing ring...

and by some miracle I found it!!   I had been looking for about twenty minutes when I just saw it sitting on some grass.  Woohoo!  So now Yoshi can live to fight another day.  Scott was amazed and impressed.  The kids were not impressed enough.  :). But I thought it was cool to find something again that had been lost.

Happy Autumn and Happy Halloween everyone!