The Fun Before the Fun

Our Pre-Halloween Festivities included these fun events:

Pumpkin Regatta
We invited some friends to join us this year,
planning our trip up to Salt Lake based on the times listed
on the website.  Well, the website lied.  We arrived early but we
still missed the racing.  Oh well.  We had fun anyway.  We got
to see an encore race and the kids sat in a giant pumpkin, then
they played at the playground.  Oh, and we all got out of the house.

Jaker's Pumpkin Patch

This is our favorite pumpkin patch.  The kids love it every year,

and it's free!  (This year they started charging $1 if you go during

certain days/times.)  We were some of the first to arrive in the morning

so we got a private hay ride.  The kids loved checking out all the cool

animals, and of course the corn pit was a favorite.  While my friend and

I were with the young kids in the corn pit, the older kids had lots of fun

playing tag in the hay maze and the hay pyramid.  No pics, though.

(It's a wallaby.)

The Pumpkin Walk

The kids always like going to this little event in Orem every year

too.  I wasn't feeling the Halloween spirit very much this year, and

the kids were largely on their own to put together costumes from

things they found around the house.  Eliza put together this Princess

costume.  Cat was a mixed-up, nerdy athlete.  (She's wearing/carrying

items from four different sports.)  She later said she was the opposite

of Eliza, haha.  I waited in line for a loooooong time for a free

caricature sketch.  The kids went off and played the various games

and came back to check in with me.  Then we did the doughnut on

a string together, and admired the cool pumpkins on display.

Luke was Bob the Builder.  (Jack wasn't with us this
time because he'd had a behavior issue.)