Halloween 2015/Goblin Valley

This year our trip to Goblin Valley landed on Halloween Day.  It was actually very fun.  The weather was absolutely gorgeous and the park was not very busy at all.  

Quote of the day comes from Afton: Goblin Valley, "It's where a kid can be a kid."

 The park provided pumpkin carving in the afternoon.  It was so fun to do this with the backdrop of the Valley of the Goblins.

We even made it on the Goblin Valley Facebook page.

With one of the park rangers.

 Grandma provided some fun props for the day.

Park even provided the candy!  

While we were carving pumpkins Grandpa, Dennis and the boys were out exploring the 2nd Valley. 

They didn't quite make it to the 3rd valley this time.  Guess we will have to come again.

We enjoyed the day playing and enjoying the beautiful park together.  

Grandpa and Grandma with the grandkids

A couple pics on the ride home.  Good bye Valley of the Goblins!!

We made it home too late for trick-or-treating, (oh shoot ;0) but with the promise to watch Jurassic World the next day.  Since we enjoyed an extra hour Saturday night with the end of daylight savings, we didn't  lack for sleep the next day either. It was a wonderful end for a wonderful month.  

On to November!!

Girl Day @ the Red Barn

Afton earned some bounce back passes for babysitting so the girls invited a few of their friends to go play at the Red Barn Fall Festival.  It was a lot cooler than it was last time we were out there, but they ran around enough that they were warm enough until we left.

Afton brought her friend EmmaLee

Khora brought her friend Maleena

Bonnie brought her friend Sister Rundell

 The girls picked out pumpkins this time.

Finally got these two to sit down long enough for a picture. They had fun together.

Bonnie said she was freezing to death so we bundled her up for the ride back. The silly girl makes me laugh.

They were sold out of apple cider doughnuts so we came home and had hot cocoa instead. It had turned pretty chilly by that point.  It was such a nice afternoon together with the girls.

Red Barn Fall Festival

The boys had Fall break this week so we started it off with a trip out to Rowley's Red Barn Fall Festival Wednesday afternoon.  We left as soon as the boys got home from school.  It was so much fun with so much to do out there.  There are apple launchers, a giant slide, giant hay bale pyramid, the pumpkin patch, giant sand box with scoop tools, an apple crate maze and cool bikes too.  

 We had time to get some ice cream and/or apple cider slushies before our ride left to the pumpkin patch and corn maze.

There are three different size corn mazes and each one has a game you play inside the maze. The large one is clue. You find stations that are hidden throughout the maze which include a suspect, tool and place. It turns out it is not that easy to do. The kids and Dennis completed their list however. They have been open three weeks and Wednesday was the first day they had any group complete the game with all 6 clues. It was a lot of fun.

Tractor bikes.

Giant Slide.

The apple launcher.

Giant hay bale pyramid.

Ride home.

When we were coming home we saw two sun-dogs in the clouds. Beautiful!  

We didn't pick out pumpkins this time, we'll save that for later.

Octobers