Trick or Treat!!

Halloween is so much better now that I have wee ones to dress up and take to all the Halloween events. We started out the Holiday by going to a Pickin' Patch to get our pumpkins.
I will say trick or treating is a lot different from what I did as a kid. Maybe it's this small town I live in. But, kids do not really go door to door. There are neighborhoods in Ocala and out in Homossassa that have door to door but, that was a little far to drive for some candy. When Kalen and Lucas get older and really understand Trick or treating then we will probably take the trek out to a good neighborhood. But for this Halloween we enjoyed what our little town had to offer.

Sunday night we got the little mister's dressed up to go Trunk or Treating. There were a few available so we went to the one across the street at the Middle school and then to a friends church. For those who have never been Trunk or treating it is an event put on mostly by churches to provide a safe way to trick or treat. Many have it set up like a festival and have food , games, and bounce houses. All the cars line up and the people handing out candy Decorate the Trunk or truck bed and hand out candy. Some people are super creative and make getting the candy interactive. Kalen seemed to enjoy getting free candy. He wasn't to keen on saying "trick or treat" but most ppl got smiles and laughs out of him. His favorite was when people had their puppies with them. He gave every single dog pets!

Halloween night we headed into town for an event they call Trail of treaters. You start at the Chamber of Commerce and then Trick or Treat your way up and down the main street in town.  The various businesses pass out candy to all the trick or treaters.  After making our way to all the stops we headed to Sonic for .50 cent corndogs, the Halloween special.

Helping Gut the Pumpkin

Having a Taste... Nom Nom Nom

Lucas as Jack the Monkey

Kalen as Captain Jack Sparrow

Sweet Dreds



Our three pumpkins

Halloween Day

Trail of Treaters

Where's my candy?

Kalen and his friend Stover

Little Mister's First Halloween







Happy Halloween

Pumpkin Pickin with my Pumpkins!

On Saturday we decided to drive into town and go to the Pickin Patch to get some nice pumpkins. I already bought a cheap carving pumpkin from Wal-Mart because I was not exactly sure what to expect at the patch.
You pay two dollars for anyone over three to get in. This gets you unlimited hay rides around the farm, a sunflower field to run through, and a corn maze to get lost in. We first hopped on the hay ride to check out where the best pumpkins might be. Kalen really seemed to enjoy the ride, he was looking everywhere and pointing. Lucas was strapped into the Bjourn with daddy and enjoyed getting a great view of everything.
Next we headed to the corn maze. It was funny to watch Kalen go through. He wasn't sure at first and stayed behind me. I was able to get him to go out in front of me and he just pushed the leaves out of the way and kept on truckin' through. Towards the end I ran way out in front of him so I could get some pictures of him.



Hay Ride



Lucas with Daddy

Heading into the Corn Maze

He needed a little break

Off to pick out a Pumpkin

Time to actually go pick our pumpkin. We got our wagon and clippers and put Kalen in the wagon to head out and find a nice pumpkin. There were lots of pumpkins still out there and you had to lift the actual plant to find some of the good ones. We had never actually been to a patch that you could actually go cut the pumpkin right of the vine. Next year we want to go earlier because they grow so many cool pumpkins; green, speckled, white, yellow and some others. But everyone seemed to have picked all those unless we just didn't look hard enough. Kalen wasn't too sure of what we were doing and was more interested in pushing our wagon than picking out a pumpkin. So we got two one for Kalen and a smaller one for Lucas.
Before we left Kalen played on a hay fort where he became a little dare devil and was rolling down it and climbing all over it. I was also able to get a few pictures and pick some beautiful sunflowers. We tried to get a family picture but Kalen wasn't having it. This may have been due to him being soaking wet! He decided to hop, fall into the water mill, clearly ignoring the do not touch sign :)!

Found Kalen's Pumpkin

Helping Mommy push our wagon



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Got our Pumpkins

On the very top of the Hay Fort

Playing in the Hay





Time to plow the field

The best family pic