Halloween

We met our friends, the Bradley's, at the pumpkin "patch" on Monday.  We went to the same farm that we pick berries at, so I thought for sure we'd be able to do the same with pumpkins, but I was wrong.  For some reason, it's just not as exciting to pick out a pumpkin from a pile of them.  BUT I realized while we were there that Colin doesn't even remember going to a pumpkin patch!!!  They didn't have anything like this in Yuma, so I was thankful to at least have a farm to go to.

Colin and Finnley

Colin stole Ben's running hat and wore it the entire week :)

Eli and Elias

Alison and Noelle

Just days later, this farm that is only 10 minutes away, was in the danger zone for the fire.  I've yet to hear how it fared, but fingers crossed it's okay because it's one of our favorite places.

Halloween day, I wasn't sure they were even going to let kids go trick-or-treating because of the smoke.  Classes had been cancelled that day and most Halloween events has cancelled as well. 

Colin helped me cook two pots of chili in the afternoon.

The Bradley's came over for dinner and the kids played some games.

Alison made a "knock down the ghosts" game:

Darth Vader, a Marine, Slumber Party girl and a beanie boo.

 We went outside a little after 6 to start trick-or-treating.  The streets were basically empty, but the husbands took the kids to some houses and Ali and I parked ourselves on the corner of the street to give out as much candy as we could.  In just a few minutes, we saw a giant smoke cloud and Ali's phone was going bananas with neighbors calling to tell her that it was right behind their house and firetrucks were going by.  She called Adam (also a firefighter) and sure enough, the fire was just over the hill in front of our house.  He was calm, so the rest of us stayed calm and the kids finished trick-or-treating.  I bought a massive amount of candy, basing it off of life in Yuma, and only gave out a few pieces.  Apparently everyone else in the neighborhood did the same thing and dumped their candy on the kids.  One man, literally put an ENTIRE bag of snickers in Eli's basket.  I have never seen so much candy in my life.

The kids said it was their favorite Halloween ever.  It's all about the candy.  Give a kid a full size candy bar for Halloween and their life is complete.