Happy Halloween!

This is going to be a mega post about all of our Halloween related activities for the last couple of weeks since I'm behind. The good news is, I'll be all caught up though! Yea me!

About a week and a half ago my mom and I took Miles to our local nursery to pick out pumpkins. We had heard from our neighbors that they had great pumpkins for a great price so we had to check it out ourselves. When we got there we were pleasantly surprised to find that they also had a corn maze, farm animals to pet, etc. Dave wasn't able to go with us unfortunately because of his evening schedule at Target and we were running out of time to get them especially with yucky weather in the forecast for the next weekend. Miles had a great time running around in the corn and picking up everything imaginable off the ground and shoving it in his mouth. He also seemed to be enthralled by the goats. He stood there and pointed at them for forever. We finally had to drag him away.

Last Monday while Dave had the evening off, we carved our pumpkins. Miles is still a bit young to understand what was going on. I was hoping he would help pull out the "guts," but he was more interested in eating the lid. Gross. He kept biting into it and then would make this face like that was the grossest thing he had ever tasted, but he kept doing it. Such a silly kid!

"Dad, give me my pumpkin!"

It took me a couple of days to get a picture of all of our pumpkins together and the morning I remembered to do it, we got our first dusting of snow!

The next evening was our Young Men/Young Women sponsored Halloween Carnival at our church. Miles wasn't technically old enough to go, but because I currently serve in Young Women's we took him anyway. He had a blast running all over the gym and seeing all the other kids dressed up in their costumes. He even helped Dad win three cupcakes in the cupcake walk! Cheating? Maybe so!

It was so hard to get pictures of our cute bag of M&Ms! He was in constant motion that night!

Fishing at the fishing pond

The cupcake walk

The donut on a string game

Our church had planned a "trunk or treat" activity for everyone last night since Halloween fell on a Sunday this year. Dave unfortunately had to work! I figured since Miles is still a bit too young to actually go trick or treating, that the trunk or treat activity would be perfect for us to attend. About 30 minutes before the activity was scheduled to begin, it began pouring cats and dogs. We never made it over to the church, but heard a few people showed up during the short break of no rain and then packed things up after the rain started again. We hung out with our neighbors for a bit trying to decide what to do when the rain finally stopped. We decided to go to a few houses in the neighborhood of people that we knew and then came back and answered the door for trick or treaters. It wasn't exactly what I had planned for the evening, but I think Miles had fun anyway which was the point. He got a few pieces of candy to give to Dad too!

Eating leaves along the route (don't you know leaves are WAY better than candy!)

More interested in the Halloween decorations at houses than getting free candy