Halloween begins the many festivities of the Fall! This year we kicked it off with our annual pumpkin carving party (see prior post)That was followed by the Chatfield Pumpkin Patch, A scary walk or in some cases run through a couple of Haunted Houses, an Adult Only Halloween Costume Party and of course ended with some good old fashion trick or treating!
Ryan and I headed up to the Pumpkin Festival Sunday afternoon, They had face painting, tattoo stations, barrel rides, carnival rides, jumping castles, corn maze and of course who could forget The pumpkin patch! Brooklyn didn't appreciate it as much as Blake did, but we sort of suspected that would be the case, she's still a little too young to enjoy it the way Blake does, but she was able to participate in some of the activites geared to her age!
Blake & Brooklyn at the Pumpkin Festival
One of Ryan's co workers was able to get us some discounted tickets for 2 haunted houses, so we took advantage of the discount and invited a few friends along. We had a blast going through the haunted houses, and some of us learned that it's not safe to go with Jenny through a haunted house...just ask Kelli how her nose is and Makenzie how her face is!!! Although they weren't as scary as some of the ones we have been to in the past, they were still pretty good, and for some reason the Chain Saw always gets to me!!!
I'm not sure if Kelli is running from the chain saw or from Jenny!!
For Easter the kids had so much fun making the Easter Bunny house so when we saw WalMart had stuff to make a Cookie Haunted House we just couldnt resist! I must say the house did look pretty scary, thanks to the decorating skills of a Man, a 4 year old and a 17 month old! But they had fun and that's what counts!
Daddy, Blake and Brooklyn's Haunted Cookie House!
For the past 4 years friends of ours "The Hynes" host a Halloween Adult Costume Party...it truly is the Halloween Party of the year! We have yet to miss one, and each year is bigger and better than the year before! This year they spiced things up by adding flip cup and beer pong! This year Ryan went as a Breathalyzer, I went as a Detective, Jenny went as a French maid, Ken and Kelli were Gangsters, Mandy was a Indian and Silver was a Cowboy! Everyone had great costumes, and tons of fun! We are already thinking of ideas for costumes next year and can't wait to see what the Hynes will do next to trump this years awesome party!
Ryan the Breathalyzer and Me the Detective!!
I must admit this was the funnest year we have had taking the kids out trick or treating. Both kids were finally at a fun age to go door to door! Years past we had taken the kids to the Boo at the Zoo and the shopping malls to get candy but this year because the kids were older and the weather was nice we opted to visit the houses of relatives and friends that lived close by and then go door to door of the houses in our neighborhood! Blake had so much fun ringing the door bells, and Brooklyn made us laugh because she would just barge into peoples homes or when they would try to put candy in her bucket, she would pull it away in fear that they were trying to take her candy, so instead she would put her hand out and insist that they hand the candy to her piece by piece so that she could drop it into her own bucket. After trick or treating we came home, Ryan had to work so the kids and I made ghost sugar cookies and watched Scooby Doo Ghost stories...we had the Best Halloween yet!
The Burke Family...trick or treating
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