Just down the road from us was a for real corn maze that we decided to check out. It was a 6 acre field of corn in a design that included the word "Livermore". It was pretty huge. I was amazed at how tall the stalks of corn were. When you see it from a distance it looks maybe 6ft high, but nope. This corn was at least 9 or 10 ft. We had a fun time navigating the turns. The only downside was that there were clue posts all over. They had trivia questions on them. That would have been fine, but they always included a super easy question for smaller kids to figure out. So, it took a lot of the mystery out of it. Towards the end we talked the kids into not reading the signs. Trial and error was more fun.
On another night, the kids's school had a Halloween carnival. Everyone got dressed up and we went to the school for fun carnival style games and prizes. They had middle schoolers there to run all of the booths and everything was free. It was so nice not to have to go buy a billion tickets for silly games. The principal was even in on the fun as she did the "fortune telling" booth. The library was turned into a big haunted house. It was fun to see the area transformed. Our kids did the cake walk and came away with a whole case of cupcakes!
This last weekend we tackled the task of pumpkin carving. Honestly, it's not my favorite thing to do. The kids always need help scooping out the guts and I usually spend a couple of hours combing through everything for seeds because eating the seeds is the best part. The girls are getting much better about doing it on their own. They required very little help this year. Neil surprisingly didn't want to get dirty and therefore didn't do much until it was time to draw the face on. It was such a nice day that we had been hanging out in the backyard. We had a fire going and we worked on the pumpkins on the patio. It was pretty fun. Yes, they are all in their jammies. I'm not sure why...
Ready for Halloween 2015
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