Saturday, October 31, 2015

Halloween Fun

We had fun all week getting ready for Halloween. We had a church party, spirit days at school, and then finally it was time to go trick-or treating.
Ready for the church trunk-or-treat.  Jaren is a shark, Camrie and Taryn are cheerleaders, and Dayton is a glow in the dark stick figure.
He hated the hood on, so this is one of the few we have with his hood on.
 Taryn got to dress up for a Halloween party at pre-school.
 Pumpkin carving time.
Jaren's first time participating in the messy fun.
 Everybody's excited.
 Camrie is always our first to dive in.
 Taryn did a great job cleaning out her pumpkin this year.
 Dayton's least favorite part is the guts, but he was tough and did it anyway.
 Jaren tried his best.
Getting as many seeds as possible to cook for Dad.
All done. They each got to draw a picture of what ever they wanted on their pumpkins and here are the masterpieces.
Finally time for trick-or-treating.  We were so happy to have cousins visiting to go get lots of candy with us.
Tayla, Cole, Camrie, Taryn, Dayton and Jaren.  Ready to go.  Dayton was too big to be dragged down by strollers, so he went off with his friends.  He must have run the whole time because he had more candy then everyone combined, but he was a good brother and shared.

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Stay-Cation Park City

We surprised the kids by taking them on a little stay-cation to Park City.  They got to miss school and we found a great hotel with a pool and hot tub. We had no plans, we just wanted to swim, relax and play.
On our way to the hotel.
One of the reasons we picked this hotel was because it had an indoor pool.  Turns out it was a pool with a roof, so not quite as inside as we were hoping for. The pool was heated, but the air was very cold.  But nothing was going to stop us from swimming.
We did however spend lots of time in the big hot tub.
Jaren was not a fan of the pool, but loved the hot tub. It was so steamy most our pictures did not turn out.
On Friday we spent the day at a corn maze fall festival park.
There were all kinds of fun random games, rides and things to play with.
Dayton was such a good brother to take Jaren.
This was really all Jaren wanted to do, plat with and throw little rocks.
We played in the corn maze for a good hour.  Dayton would run around and tell us which way to go.
Jaren kept trying to eat the corn.
Taryn was a little tired by this point, so she made Jaren walk so she could ride.
It didn't take much to get her up and playing.
Someone (Kyle) kept throwing corn at me, I kept running and hiding, but it didn't matter. Then I found Kyle and Taryn up on the look out throwing corn at me and Jaren.
A big jumping bubble.
Action shot of Dayton.
Bounce house.
Cinderella carriage.
Taryn was a little reluctant to take this picture. She was careful to not get too close.
This became a family favorite.  Kyle brought Jaren here while I took the other kids to play on a bunch of things.  We met up with them and everybody played in the "corn beach" for a while.
Hay ride.
Spooky haunted house.
More games.
Some how Dayton always gets picked out of the crowd to do things.  This time it was to square dance with the worker.
Pumpkins.