Halloween

We tried the night corn maze again this year.  We went with a few friends.   It was a muddy mess.  The kids had a good time, not all of us were able to find all the stations though.  This is at the farm we usually get $1 pumpkins from but they didn't have them this year.  Apparently it was too soggy to get to the back field.  

We went to do the night time corn maze again!  It was muddy and nasty, but we all had a good time!

Landon and Dillon

Aidan and Dillon

We had to go to a different pumpkin patch then usual this year.  It was nearby and the kids still had fun picking out pumpkins. 

It was really nice to have the shop this year. No need to haul the kitchen table out of the way.  We set up a propane heater and carved pumpkins out there.

We straightened Kayda's hair as part of her reaper costume.  She looks so different!

Despite COVID our kids were able to trick or treat.  Some people were adamantly against it.  A friend of ours kid actually got yelled at.  If you don't approve, turn off your porch light.  That's the unwritten rule for trick or treating.  Apparently a coworker, also one of Kayda's teachers, lives up there.  He created a candy chute.  He sat up in the room above the garage and slid candy down a decorated pvc pipe.  It was really cool and fun for the kids.  Carson was hacker, Dillon arranged with friends to be "gangsters", Kayda and Ivy were reapers together.  We went up around CJ's neighborhood.  They swear they have the best trick or treating... we also live in an area with few houses so we had to find somewhere else.  We may just go to our old neighborhood next year.  

Leelan, CJ and Dillon

Visiting Vegas Friends

Covid quarantine sent us out of state again.  This time to visit Theresa and Davin.  Kayda's best friend Ari moved to Vegas a couple of years ago.  They became even closer after she moved.  They video chat and text regularly.  So when we found cheap airfare we scheduled to go visit.  It was just a long weekend situation.  We actually went down Thursday night and I did my classes from there on Friday.  

They took us to a few places on the strip.

Us with Theresa and Davin

The kiddos with Gibson and Ari.

Brian and the kids did the Coca-Cola tasting.  Most were not to their liking, some were foul.

We went to the conservatory.  The figures are all made with real plants so that was fun to walk through.

We went and watched the fountains at the Bellagio.

We spent Saturday on the boat on Lake Mead.

We saw the Hoover dam.

Then they took us to some cliffs to jump off.  All of us went off the highest cliff.  I thought it was interesting that they had their kids wear life jackets.  We just went with it so it didn't cause problems for them.