Halloween 2014

We love us some Halloween. Brian reads tons of spooky stories to the kids...mostly ones from his childhood. We watch tons of scary movies. We usually do a corn maze and a haunted house. Its second only to Christmas for us. Manti attempted to put a damper on it all. There is just nothing. We had ambitions of going to a corn maze in Richfield that we found online. We bundled up and drove 45 minutes to Richfield. Followed the GPS and we were out in the middle of fields, but they were plowed fields. Not a corn stalk in sight. We ended up going to Taco Time and coming home. The kids were super bummed so Brian headed right back out with them and told them he was taking them to a Haunted House he heard about in Mount Pleasant. That was another 30 minutes the other direction. All the website claims made it sound awesome. It was in an old historical building. They waiting in a huge line and paid $10 a piece. It lasted all of about 7 minutes and was nothing compared to the haunted house they did last year in Salt Lake. They were slightly pacified. We ended up in Salt Lake a couple weekends later and Grace and I ran to Walmart while Brian took the kids to the Castle of Chaos in Salt Lake. It's a little unusual for kids our kids ages to go, but they love love it. Castle of Chaos did not disappoint at all...something about getting locked in coffins at the end and after waiting a while not know what was happening the floor dropped out from under them and when they landed they were being chased by a chainsaw man. I was so relieved they got a little taste of Halloween fun. Next year we'll just have to make a weekend trip to Salt Lake and do both a corn maze and a haunted house in the same weekend.

We had a rodeo queen, the dark knight and tinkerbell. I took my camera to the Droubay Halloween party and forgot it so I just have a couple and some taken with Meg's camera.

Meg was a rodeo queen because she loooved the rodeo we went to this year and would love to be an actual rodeo queen.

Adin has been batman a time or two in the past. He was specific about wanting to be the one with the black bat, which some research taught me was the Dark Knight. He was really annoyed that people thought he was batman and kept correcting people everywhere we went.

Gracie was tinkerbell because we all love comparing Grace and Meg at similar ages. With their birthdays only a few months apart they hit a lot of holidays around the same age. 

We went to a pumpkin patch in Gunnison to get our pumpkins. It was fun to pick from tons of varieties and colors. They happened to have a little hay bale maze that the kids had some fun in.

Trick our treating here was somewhat of a bust. Manti City does a trunk or treat on Main Street. People come from all the neighboring cities. I was told it was packed and to avoid it. We walked down to check it out really quick because we thought it would be a quick way to get a bunch of candy. Not so. It was the lamest thing I'd ever seen. You stand in this slow moving line that moves up and down main street and walk by cars and get candies. You literally stand in line...not just any line....a huge line. It was so ridiculous it ticked me off. We tried to trick or treat neighborhoods and it was really hit or miss. Since the trunk or treat is so popular most people don't plan for traditional trick or treaters and so it was hard to find candy. It was pretty brutally cold out so Gracie only did a couple houses. The first one we went to, Gracie waited for them to open the door and when they did she just walked right past the lady and into her house leaving me and the kids on the porch. It was pretty cute. I ended up taking her back and putting her to bed with the plan on handing out candy. Literally one kids came the whole night. Pathetic. Thankfully, Brian's friend from the ward, was their last stop and since he hadn't had any trick or treaters either he dumped his bowl of candy into the kids bags. They thought that was so awesome that any lack of candy from other houses was forgotten and I'm sure that will live on their memory forever. I've got to start thinking of a plan for next Halloween and I'm fairly certain it will involve getting out of this town and finding some traditional trick or treating. :)