Halloween Fun

A few weekends ago Lainey spent the night with us. We went to Craft Warehouse for some Halloween craft supplies and the girls got choked by a witch:

Kennedy and I made a quilted table runner for the top of the piano. Last year we made one for Christmas and she was a little leery to run the sewing machine herself. She took off this time and quilted the entire top. We stitched on the binding and it turned out cute.

Last Christmas when we were at Bob and Vicky's she inspired me to decorate for Halloween with pictures of the girls in their costumes from years back. Vicky had a bunch of Christmas-themed pictures of her girls as they were growing up as her Christmas decorations and I thought it was so great.

Shane made some decorations for Halloween out of scrap hardwoods he had in the garage. I love the owl, he's so cute!

Aunt Nicole came to visit us this weekend. She helped decorate the haunted house and played a round of Apples to Apples:

We drove to Grandview to check out a new pumpkin patch. And naturally, Isabella decided to wear her Easter hat to it:

The whole way there Kennedy taught Aunt Nicole her latest rhyme, something to do with Ice Ice Cream Cream...they practiced the whole way there:

Debbie and Don also drove out that day and brought Mason and Brady. When we arrived the big kids went to slingshot apples at targets and Isabella climbed the hay bail pyramid:

We then went in search of a perfect pumpkin. I didn't get any good pictures of Debbie that I think she would appreciate showing up on this blog :) But, I thought this was a cute one of Isabella and her Papa:

After finding the perfect pumpkins, we took a tractor ride through the apple orchards.

When we got through the orchard, Debbie and Don bought us all hot dogs and soda. We sat at picnic tables enjoying the sunshine, blue skies, and fresh air. I thought this display was beautiful:

The boys had to leave early so after they left we went to the animal part of the farm.

Isabella, Nicole, and I went to the petting zoo. Isabella loved the alpacas with their big brown eyes. She also loved the piggies but could really only pet Clarence the Cow. After she was a little bored with the petting zoo, she said "Get me out of this farm."

Shane took Kennedy for a pony ride:

After the zoo we decided to go through the corn maze and SERIOUSLY about 2.5 hours later we found our way out. Farmer Bill had been kidnapped and the corn maze held all the clues to find out who did it, with what weapon, and where.

Kennedy was ready to keep going and but Isabella needed to go to the bathroom so we had to find the exit. We had found all but one clue and after 2.5 hours of walking in a maze ~~I had never been happier Isabella needed to go to the bathroom~~ I was a little sad we were so close to solving the mystery and weren't going to be able to.

When we got home we carved the pumpkins we picked: