The Best Day Ever: Halloween

We started off our day 5 minutes up the road at Phillips Corn Maze with tons of farm fun!

They had a corn box instead of a sand box!

Michael is KING OF THE HILL!

Making it through the hay maze for kids!

The Hillbilly Lem-O-Zine with good hillbilly music for your enjoyment!

We took the high adventure cow ride! Fortunately, the driver went slower for us and all the kids, otherwise we would have been COVERED in mud like all of the teenagers that went before us! What a fun ride!

The place wasn't crowded early in the morning, so we could go as many times as we wanted. Once was enough for me and Michael though :-)

Off we go!

Going up the hill before the fast, bumpy ride down!

Wohoo!!

This is one of the parts where the mud could fling up if the driver went fast. Thank goodness he didn't! Nicole thought he was Santa for some reason...

We made it!

Michael really liked this huge tractor!

Off we go to the corn maze! The stalk with an orange handkerchief is if you get lost and need help. Nicole held it up most of the time so I was glad she was too short for anyone to see it anyways. She thought she was more of a standard bearer or something.

Michael led the way and found a shortcut to checkpoint three. Everyone else, however, was determined to take the long way-they thought we'd found the bigger maze-so we had to go follow them. The owners give out a direction hint page with trivia that has different directions to go depending on your answer.

Weston and Nicole made it out! With some extra corn too...

Michael taking a turn at the wheel.

Off on our hayride! We went with Weston and his family and had so much fun with them!

Nicole preparing to throw some hay.

We went to a Halloween party that one of Jim's co-workers was throwing. They just finished a beautiful home and Jim has put in some great muscle-building hours helping with the lawn :-) It was fun to finally see the home and have a great time with everyone! Michael wasn't tall enough to try to only get the doughnut with his mouth, but he couldn't resist grabbing one for himself!

Nicole loved being around all of the other girls, most of whom were a little older and really nice to her.

Nicole was a cowgirl for Halloween but her horse was too hard to wear while playing. We put her in some little shorts so she wouldn't get too hot in her costume and her t-shirt was big for her because it was the only size I could find for a cowgirl shirt. Hence the enormous shirt that looks like it's all she's wearing.

Josh, Sophie, and Ryan's playroom was heaven for Michael- lots of different toys that were all new to him!

Ryan and Michael took turns pushing each other on the favorite toy of the afternoon!

The girls found a ton of ladybugs all over the front porch and caught a ton of them! Nicole loved taking care of her bugs!

Everyone showing their catches!

That night we went over to Weston's house and helped him cut a pumpkin (the stores were sold out of pumpkins so we shared the slime opportunity of degutting the pumpkin!

Michael in his pumpkin costume! This is actually my youngest brother's old costume!

Ready to kiss the pumpkin!

Deciding that eating the pumpkin would be funner!

Here's our cowgirl with her horsie! She loved looking at herself in the mirror and moving her freckles around.

After a house or two, Nicole figured it out and then would take of sprinting to the next house. I ran with her for a bit, then just followed her around. I was amazed how fast she would go and it was pretty funny watching those horse hooves gallop off!

All done! Nicole was pretty adorable with her braids and freckles and excited, sweet "trick or treat" at each house. I was proud of her for being so excited about the candy! Especially since she got two lollipops last night and the rest is for mommy!!!! (okay I did share a few pieces with her today...)

I'll load a fun video of some more fun later! What a day!!!!

Side note that Marian assures me will be funny someday: The next day was daylight savings and we turned our clocks the WRONG way and showed up to church 2 hours early and very tired. This is what we get for growing up in Arizona!