Agua Linda Farm and Halloween

After getting a groupon, we took the boys to play at Agua Linda Farm. It was lots of fun with animals and little kids hay maze and tractor ride. It was also just so fun to be around trees again. We miss great natural trees!

Woo-hoo, John Deere trikes!

  

Jumping on the hay bail pyramid

The boys spent lots of time feeding hay to the sheep and goats. Especially Joey. I think he's a farmer at heart

Running through the kiddie maze with Dad

Fun tractor ride out to the pumpkins

 

                                      

It was so fun to do the sac race with the boys

                                                 

We had lots of fun with the Halloween package from Grandma and Grandpa Gurr. The boys loved decorating--the house, and all the yummy cookies!

Trunk or Treat at chruch. I'm so glad they wanted to use last years Halloween costumes again. They are so low maintinance with Halloween. We get at least 2 years out of every costume!

                                     

                                                            Batman Kimball and vampire Joey

 Joey got himself into a little bit of trouble for his behavior at home (a very common occurrence--he just can't stand to have parents. He loves us, but it drives him insane that he is a kid and has to listen to his parents. I can't even imagine what the teenage years will be like). Anyway, so he had to spend the first 5 minutes helping to pass out candy. He actually enjoyed it and still got a lot of treats after his sentence was served :)

 Above is our funny Bishop as an Indian and his Cute wife as a pilgrim. One funny story about this Bishop is that soon after we moved here, he was in desperate need for Peter and I to go help another couple in our ward one night--a help that only we could give, but it was last minute and we needed a babysitter to be able to help. So when the Bishop called and asked us to help, he offered to babysit the boys while we were gone. The next morning in church Kimball points at the Bishop on the stand and shouts, "that's our babysitter." He keeps asking when the Bishop can babysit again. He doesn't know that Bishops don't usually babysit :)

                                      

 The boys wanted to make their own bat caves and wear their costumes

                                       

                                     

 At school in their art class the boys made sugar skulls--a first for me and them.

 Halloween Sugar Skull Tradition (for Dia de Los Muertos--Day of the dead). The traditional Mexican sugar skull is placed on the home altar or the tomb to honor a deceased loved one. It decorates the altar and make it a happy place for the spirit to visit. The name of the loved one is usually written on the skull with icing in the market by the sugar skull maker. You can customize your skulls with characteristics that you remember –– like a tin foil pipe for Grandpa Joe who smoked a pipe on the porch after dinner.

 On Halloween, the boys had their school parade. It was a cute tradition I had never seen. The parade started with the 2 kindergarten classrooms starting off the line. Then they would walk through each grade's classrooms, adding on the kids in each room until the whole school was in one big parade line. The parade ended with each kid getting a treat from thing 2. It was really fun to watch.

                                               



                                              

 After the 1/2 day at school we went to a friends house and we made the traditional "witch's brew" root beer. I grabbed the wrong extract and dumped it in (Peter had gotten peanut butter extract), so with an extra root beer extract bottle and the some peanut butter extract, it ended up tasting like cream soda :)

The for dinner we made our little tradition of southwest meatloaf muffins topped with mashed potato ghosts.

 We had fun trick or treating in our little neighborhood after dinner

 Dad confiscating all the "bad for your teeth" candy. Surprisingly, our candy-a-holic son Joey willingly gave up the bad candy because he wanted to help his teeth. Dad was very proud :)