Am I crazy or what?
Can I just say, I'm glad it's over.... Ryan finally helped Rose finish with the clean-up around 5 tonight. Wow!!! Now we may have some time to get ready for our own Christmas!
Hamsters are only supposed to live for 2-3 years. Tagg is 2.5 years. Sweet Tagg passed away today.
Brenner took it pretty hard. We had to go outside in the dark to bury him. May he rest in peace.
That evening was the ward trunk or treat.
Ryan and I got a lot of compliments on our costumes:)
Thor
Skull Lord Ninja
Werewolf
We won the "most creative trunk" I think it was because of our cool "puking pumpkin"
After the trunk or treating, we headed over to Santa Clara and did a little traditional trick or treating. It was a lot of fun and we have tons of candy to show for it... if the kids will share.
As always, pumpkin carving is fun.
I especially love that Ryan and I end up doing most of the carving.
We played pin the eye on the monster...
We had coloring pages...
We had a mummy relay. The kids got into teams and had to wrap their partner up like a mummy. We had a few other games... Halloween bingo, an m&m relay, etc. The kids had more fun running around and chasing each other... it was a little crazy and hard to get them to settle down to play the games.
All of the kids got to invite 3 friends (Brenner a few more). It was interesting to have the big kids there with the little kids. Treyson was a "killer clown" and one of Terek's friends was scared of him.
I had fun making Halloween treats.... eyeballs...
... vampire fingers... I also made witch's brew with a floating hand...
14 little kids was a little overwhelming, but still tons of fun. Thanks to the moms who helped out... I survived!
Brenner and Cierrah found the jackpot of treasure... shells. They spend countless hours looking for shells.
Mason had a fun time being buried in the sand by Matthew.
Terek just loves to get dirty.
Mikelle enjoyed relaxing and getting some sun.
Jadon just wanted to drive the 4-wheeler... and lucky for him, Joren wanted to go for a ride.
Did I mention Terek just liked to get dirty? The kids had a blast!!! And I enjoyed the chance to relax and do nothing:)
The barrel trains are always a blast!
They had real horses to ride...
and fake horses... and bulls.... Everyone kept telling me how cute Zoe was... ahhh to have a girl for a few minutes:)
The boys liked digging for the "needle" in the haystack... they had placed nails in there and if you found one, you could win a prize.
Farmyard toys are the best!
They had dinner to buy as well and we ended up staying until it was dark. It's nice to have fun stuff like this around... and close to home... I've been trying to figure out how we could do this at our farm..... something to ponder:)
... Trace (my cousin Summer's son) was the only one brave enough to try to eat a donut off the string...
... Home Depot was there with a craft for the kids to build and paint. They also had a lot of fun booths and activities for the kids to do.
After the Pumpkin Festival in Cedar City we headed down to New Harmony for the Apple Festival. The boys enjoyed their blue snow cones:)
My Grandma's sister lived in New Harmony and had apple orchards. My mom's cousins still live there and own the apple orchards, so we headed over there for a visit and picked some apples.
Brenner was very particular about the apples that he picked and not sharing them with anyone.
We enjoyed eating a few apples fresh from the tree.
Joren thought it was fun to whack the trees to make the apples fall.... he didn't quite get that bruised mushy apples aren't super yummy to eat.
It was such a pretty place and fun to visit with family.
Left to right: Back: Kali (Cash's girlfriend), Ryan, Anisa, Summer, Libby and Peyton. Front: Brenner, Terek, Joren and Trace. I always love spending time with my cousins.
The boys always have fun with their cousins too.
It was good to see you Summer and I hope you have a safe trip back to New Mexico!
They had a fun little maze that the kids could go through.
Our rule has always been that the kids can't get a pumpkin bigger than they can carry themselves. Well, that didn't work for little Terek. When he saw how big his brothers' pumpkins were, he wanted a fairly big one too.
Joren carried a 16 pounder...
Brenner carried a 22 pounder...
Terek is my only kid still willing to pose for pics for me:)
Brenner, Joren, Terek and Xander had tons of fun playing all the games. They loved playing in the sand, on the corn slide and swinging from the rafters on a rope.
We got "lost" in the maze for about an hour and a half... I don't think we were really lost, but mostly just took the long route:)
Cute little Zoe had a blast! 
This is totally one of our favorite fall traditions in St. George.
