Monday, January 16, 2023

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone!  As usual, we made the annual pilgrimage to the local pumpkin patch, BiZi Farms.  Karina (and some random boy) made it to the top of the hay pyramid.


Xiao enjoyed riding on top of the saddle and you can practice lassoing a calf.
He also ground some corn.


Karina had fun feeding the goats.  Some of them get super pushy and the little ones sometimes stick their heads under the grating!

They tried the elephant ear.  This time it was not super good...tasted like a deep fried tortilla.
We took a ride on the tractor pulled wagon out to the pumpkin patch.  The cousins from Denver were in town too.
Everyone made their selection and their other cousins who semi-recently moved back from Alaska were there too.
And we washed off the dirt and grime off of the pumpkins.  It was a fun but very wet trip!
A couple weeks later, it was time to carve the pumpkins.
Just the buys decided to carve this year.  They did their own guts this time.
Xiao decided he wanted to carve a spider into his.

Gabe's, I think, was some creature from Minecraft, which is a computer game he plays.

Here they are in their costumes.
Gabe's costume was a last minute purchase.  The selection had been pretty picked over and he wasn't interested in being something scary.  So panda it is...and he was very happy with it!
It was a pretty rainy Halloween evening.  We first walked around our new neighborhood.  Lots of folks were not around...

Lucky came along, but maybe after a while wished that he didn't.  Eliana made him his costume--his wings.  He's supposed to be a fruit fly.  He didn't really have a say in that.

We then went to our old neighborhood and the first house we visited was that of our old neighbors.  It was great seeing them.  They have known all of our kids since they were born and have watched each of them grow up.    They had a pretty elaborate set up on their porch, with a fake life sized skeleton, a huge hairy spider and even a fog machine.
Emily took Gabe to go trick-or-treating with a friend from school while Karina and Xiao trudged on.
In the end, everyone got tons of candy.  Especially Gabe, who trick or treated for the longest.  After 2 hours, he came home sopping wet but very happy with about 10 pounds of candy!  Wow!


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