All Things Halloween

 I made a trip to Once Upon a Child at the end of September in hopes of finding a Halloween costume for P. I wasn't looking for anything in particular, but it turned out that my selection in costumes his size was pretty small as it was. However, when I came across this one - I knew this was it. :) 

A clown fish! No, he wasn't specifically Nemo since there is nothing particularly Nemo about it, but in the end that's what I told people he was. I just wanted it because he loves fish and I had never seen a fish costume before. He was really excited about trying it on and sported it for most of that evening.

Naturally, we wanted to visit the pumpkin patch for some fun pictures. P is obsessed with pumpkins right now which makes it even better. 

I am amazed that Ryan got a decent picture of him in this cut out board. He seemed kind of freaked out by it and even after I showed it how it worked he wanted nothing to do with it. Oh well.

 

We had a really great time. Following the pumpkin patch, we ate dinner and headed to the church to join Ryan for YM/YW pumpkin carving contest. P was pretty unconvinced of the fun of gutting a pumpkin. I couldn't convince him to put his hand in it.

He did help move a few seeds from my hand to the bowl, but after touching one or two, when I held out my hand to him, he would simply flick them into the bowl rather than try to pick them up. Whether he was grossed out by the feel or was just annoyed at how slippery they were, I couldn't quite decide.

A few days later we had our ward Trunk or Treat. I was proud of myself for doing at least a few decorations, but that pride disappeared the moment we got to the church. I hadn't stopped to think that it was going to be dark and you couldn't see my decorations at all. That... and there were several people who were REALLY into it that had lights, music, and fog machines. Kind of put my bats and spiders to shame... not that you could see them anyway. Hahaha.

For dinner they had potluck soup and pies. I brought my "No Fuss Potato Soup" which is pretty much awesome. 

Unfortunately P took a really short nap that day and was pretty dang tired, but he always perks up around other kids. He was thrilled at the idea of free candy, though it took a lot of convincing for him to leave the candy in the bucket. He just wanted to pull it right back out. The suckers especially. 

There were a few games going on inside, and P stopped by one to watch a few kids do a relay. At one point of the relay, the kids were supposed to put a candy corn on a spoon and crawl under a table and take it to the next kid and feed it to them without dropping it. P watched this, then went straight to the bag of candy corn and started helping himself. Cheater! Lol.

We had a great time. We all came home tired and happy and P went right to bed. 

The Wednesday before Halloween I went to a party hosted by the group that did the corn maze. We made little pumpkin crafts, played with toys, and ate some yummy Halloween treats.

Aren't people so creative?! Seriously... if I had brought treats, they would have been store bought cookies. Ha! The party was cute and I P had a great time running around with the other kids.

Halloween night we went to the mall. I had been told by many sources that it was going to be "crazy," "chaotic," and a "zoo." So I was definitely expecting the worst. And then I remembered... this is Wyoming.  

Granted, there were a lot of kids there. However, it was totally organized and pleasant. Everyone just walked in a nice line around the mall going store to store. Sometimes I have to remind myself that there are almost as many people in Utah Valley as there are in the entire state of Wyoming. So yeah... I don't think our definitions of chaos are same. However, that being said, I am growing more accustomed to the slower pace of things here, (much nicer pace I might add) so when I go home, I really do feel like things in Utah are chaotic. Haha. 

Anyway, Pierscen loved it. He made out like a bandit. Especially in the sucker department which is a favorite for the little guy, so there are no complaints there. 

He also had a great time learning to rope a calf. Hehe. I love it! I sent the picture below to my dad and he responded, "Only in Wyoming do they teach fish to throw a lasso." :)

We had a really great time. His pumpkin full of candy is tucked away out of sight. I think it will last us a while. Happy Halloween! Hope everyone else had a great time too!