We try to partake in as many fun Fall activities as possible...pumpkin patches (always more than one!), the Pumpkin Walk in Ft. Thomas, Halloween parties, Trunk-R-Treat, carving pumpkins and of course trick-r-treating!
We went to the Halloween party at the Highland Heights city building - always a fun time! Alli & P were there this year with Grandma...and Aunt Nikki & Uncle Steven stopped by for a bit, too! Max decided to be Spider-man for Halloween this year and Lucy was super excited to be Wonder Woman. But when the day of the city building party came, Max decided not to wear the Spider-man costume...he didn't like the ski-mask style mask.
He wore it for a few minutes for a pic but that was about it. Pretty cool, if you ask me, but I can see why he didn't want to keep it on. He actually tricked me into buying a new mask that he said he'd wear...but no dice. We dug out a mailman costume Charlie had passed down and he was the cutest little letter carrier you ever did see!
Lucy was a gorgeous little Wonder Woman! One of the draws of the costume was the "lasso of truth" but of course the costume didn't come with it...my mom found this one at Sam's Club and picked it up for her and Lucy and I went to a Halloween store to find the lasso...it was a little harder a task than I expected and we ended up getting a whip that she was happy with.
We fastened a loop around to make it a lasso and she had endless fun lassoing her poor little brother.
It was pretty cold and very windy that day but we didn't let that stop us from going on the hayride to the little pumpkin patch they had set up. The kids got to choose a little pumpkin to bring back inside to paint.
Pumpkin patchin' fun - Benton Family Farm with Auntie Ema, Lukey & Ellie:
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| In their matching Jack Skellington shirts! |
The Stallkamps left earlier than us because Lukey wasn't feeling his best but we stuck around to eat giant pretzels for lunch, explore some more and destroy the white shorts with Kona ice!
Another patch - Neltner's Farm:
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| Cute cousin love |
Lucy loves the corn maze...and I hate the corn maze! It makes me very anxious being trapped in one and GranJan knows this - so she partnered up with Lucy and the two of them headed deep into the maze while the rest of us lingered closer to the entrance. I was still in there with Max, Luke, Ellie & Ema longer than I preferred, but nowhere near as long as the two crazy girls!
Maxy was set on choosing out the largest pumpkin that he could actually pick up!
Carving pumpkins...Lucy and Max were both really into goop scoopin' this year.
Gotta love these goop-scoopin' faces!
Dave did most of the carving - he surprised us with the Marshall from Paw Patrol but Lucy asked me to carve a Jack Skellington and picked out the Boogie Man pattern from a book for Dave to carve and also asked him for a Wonder Woman once since that was her costume this year - all looked amazing!
