A wedding and Little Haunts.

Yesterday we attended my cousins wedding at the Draper Temple.

While standing in the waiting room, waiting for the bride and groom to come outside for pictures my daughter pushed me over.

It was very surprising.

I was embarrassed for a few seconds, then I laughed really hard for a long time.

Thanks heavens no one got a picture of that.

I did take lots of pictures of Chase posing. I like her poses.

From here on out whenever I am in a picture I will utilize one of the 4 below poses. No matter the occasion.

Today we went to Little Haunts at This Is The Place Heritage Park (yes it was on my list in the below post. I will now cross it off). The kids had so much fun, and Chase loved that she got to dress up in her witch costume. There was trick-or-treating at all the little cottage houses, train rides, pony rides, witch story telling and sing-a-longs, Halloween crafts, fun games for the kids, a little petting zoo, and lots of other equally awesome/fun things. We were there for a really long time....as in all of our friends left and 3 hours later we were still there. It is at that point I am ready to shoot myself. I was hot and tired of chasing around my children. But I suppose it was worth it since they had a good time. This place gets a thumbs up from me. Great place to take the kids for a fun filled Halloween outing.

Here we have Chase participating in a pumpkin rolling race. Who knew old fashion Halloween games could be so entertaining?

Chase the witch and her beautiful butterfly friend Teagan.

I didn't dress up Cohen, because lets be real, like he would actually wear his lion costume all day. We will be lucky if we can get him to wear it for an hour on Halloween.

Witch story telling and sing-a-long.

Its fall up in here.

It is fall and we are la la la loving it. We have been to a few different pumpkin patches, carved lots of pumpkins,baked fall goodies, read our favorite fall/Halloween books every night, and routinely watched our favorite Halloween movies (Hocus Pocus, Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, and the old Ichabod cartoon).

Chase rotates her old witch costume and new witch costume almost daily. Why not let her dress up every day? She loves it. We miss living by the Halloween House, but since my parentals still live down the street from it, we still find ourselves visiting it regularly.

Today as we were driving down 33rd Chase freaked out when we passed that little nursery that gets turned into a pumpkin patch every October. She insisted we stop. I thought, "Why not? I am not opposed to more pumpkins."

Oh. My. Hell.

The first few minutes there were great. Chase and Cohen were running around, Chase was picking out pumpkins, posing for pictures, loving all the cute Halloween decor they had. Then some guy that worked there walked up to me and was like "you need to come show your daughter this bride lady."

Not thinking anything of it, we walk over. Its this weird creepy Halloween bride (almost life size I might add), with her head down. This guy keeps telling Chase she needs to walk right up to this lady and look at her beautiful face. As I am sure you have guessed, when you walk up to the bride she puts her head up and screams in your face. Chase and I both screamed louder than either of us have ever screamed before in the history of Jamie and Chase screams. I started laughing, Chase started bawling. From that moment on she refused to even move. She was terrified.

I wanted to punch this guy in the face for thinking a 3 yr old girl would be into some zombie bride screaming in her face. (but I am not opposed to going back and purchasing said zombie bride when we have a house. I can only imagine the awesomeness of putting her in our yard, and letting her terrify everyone during Halloween festivities.)

I paid for my pumpkins, picked up my terrified girl, and we made our way out of there.

(and btw, I was holding Cohen through all this, and it did not scare him in the least. He did smack my face when I started laughing. Thats about the only reaction we got.)

Anyways, back to fabulous fall.

Chase posing in 2 yr old witch costume with her new pumpkins. Also, I enjoy white pumpkins.

Awesome pumpkin patch in riverton.

We are pumpkin carving fools.

THIS is the pumpkin patch on 33rd. Picture taken before my daughter was scared to death.

Halloween cupcakes.

Cohen enjoying a honey crisp apple, which can only be purchased during the fall months. They are the best apples I have ever tasted. If you have never tried them, go buy some immediately before they are gone. Also, if you didn't notice, he enjoys hanging out in Chase's doll stroller.

Our favorite Halloween and Fall books.

Talking witch.

Chase heading to Ella's house wearing her to small witch costume.

I have a list of a few things we want to do before Halloween is over. If anyone wants to join us we would love it:) These are all family friendly things that kids of all ages can attend.

1. Garden After Dark up at Red Butte Gardens.

2. Haunted Heber Valley Railroad ride. Saw on the news how fun this is, and its recommended for the whole family. Kids of every age. I guess there is also a great little pumpkin patch thats fun for kids near where the railroad is.

3. Little Haunts and Haunted Village at This is the Place Park.

Who knows if we will get around to all of that, but I am sure going to try. Anyone done any of these things? Are they as awesome as they seem?

Anywho. Thats all for now.

Happy Fall:)

Muscle Man.

This is a picture of Cohen flexing his muscles. Well, I guess I should say its the best pic of him I could get while he was flexing his muscles. He doesn't put his arms up, as most people do. He holds them to his side, slightly bent, makes this growling noise deep in his throat, and gets really stiff and intense for a few seconds. Like he is trying to flex every muscle in his whole body....forehead included. He scrunches his face up so his eyes are closed.

I love him.

He had his 15 month check up today. The second the doctor walked in Cohen started flexing his muscles.

It was classic.

The cabin {fall edition}

The 10 reasons why my favorite time to go to the cabin is in October:

1.The weather is perfect

2. Carving pumpkins

3. Leaves changing

4. Making carmel apples drizzled in chocolate (although you could do that any time of year, for some reason its extra enjoyable while doing it at the cabin in October.)

5. Riding the 4-wheelers in that perfect weather

6. Jamison being able to truly relax for the first time at the cabin. Ever since my parents have had the cabin Jamison has been in school, and every trip he has had to bring up homework. Well, not being in school anymore = being able to relax and totally enjoy himself.

7. Staying up late playing games and watching spooky movies. Hocus Pocus anyone?

8. Hot tubbing.

9. The kids digging up spooky buried treasure.

10. Watching my kids have such a funtastical time.