More Fall activities

We went to Vesperman farms a few weekends ago with the playgroup I go to. The playgroup is though the city so they have lots of fun activities. It was on a Saturday so Ryan got to come to. There was pumpkin carving, a hay ride (without the hay), a pumpkin patch, animals, corn maze, making scarecrows, and roasting hot dogs. We didn’t’ do all the activities, but we had a nice time. Kaitlyn loved being outside and especially the animals. Some of the kids there started feeding a lama grass. It was pretty fun to watch. Ryan was so excited to be right there with the animals too. When we retire, I think he would love to live on a farm or a ranch. He just loves animals so much, and so does Kaitlyn. Here’s Kaitlyn helping Dad feed the Lama. She really wanted to, but got scared. Eventually she did it and then loved it and didn’t want to stop. It was so cute.




And this animal has four horns! I thought it was pretty crazy.



Kaitlyn



Emily, she was not very excited about this.



Our family on the “hay” ride



Kaitlyn loved it, especially when a Dog came up and ran next to us



The girls and I with a pumpkin. I was pretty disappointed with the pumpkin patch. It was just pumpkins thrown on the ground, and most of them were gross. We ended up not getting one, because we already had some at home.



All in all it was a nice time. Great to get out of the house and be outside with the family.

Grandma Dalton sent a Halloween package and inside was this cute Halloween outfit for Emily.



We love getting packages in the mail! We just got another package from Grandma D. Grandpa D is in the Philipines for work right now, and Grandma D went there to spend time with him. They sent all sorts of fun stuff from there. I got an AWESOME salad bowl set. They are each individually made out of wood and they are gorgeous! We miss you Grandpa D. and are so excited you’ll be back when we come home for Christmas! Yay! My mom also sent us a pakage. Kaitlyn got a new blanket and one we left when we visited, but her favorite was two cute little dolls that were in there, and of course the Yogos! Mom sent me some books to read too. I love to read.

The girls and I got to do lots of things for Halloween this year. It’s just so much more fun with kids. On Friday I got their costumes out and tried them on them to make sure they fit, and then decided to run up to Ryan’s work to visit him and show off our beautiful daughters. All the girls in our office just love our girls. They love it when we visit, infact when they do special lunches at the office they invite the girls and I to come along too. We’ve been very blessed to have Ryan work at this firm. On Tuesday we went to playgroup and got to go dressed up there too. They had lots of fun Halloween treats that people brought in. It was lots of fun. Then on Wednesday we had Library time and the girls got dressed up again. And then finally Wednesday evening we went trick or treating. I almost missed it because where I grew up you don’t start until about 6 or 6:30. When Ryan got home from work at 5, he asked aren’t we going trick or treating tonight? I said yeah, probably in an hour or so. I had just put dinner in the oven and wanted to eat first. Well Ryan told me all the trick or treaters were already out. Infact most are done by 6:30! Good thing he came home! We quickly got the girls dressed and reaced outside. Kaitlyn LOVED it. How cool is it that people just give you candy! I think she remembered the easter egg hunt (we used the same bag that night) so when she saw the bag and the candy, she knew it was going to be a very fun night! We just went around our block, but still got a good a mount of candy. Ryan would have loved to go to all the houses, but Emily was getting cold so we called it a night. Here are the girls dressed up. This was before Library time, wich was good because after trick or treating Kaitlyn’s cow was covered in candy!






And the girls with Dad at the office



Kaitlyn loved her cow. If you pushed the nose on her tummy it mooed. Great. She loved it so much she insisted on wearing it on Thursday too. After that it was COVERED in food, so I hid it in the laundry. I hope it all comes out. I was pretty proud of myself, our costumes cost nothing this year. I bought Kaitlyns at a garage sale before she was born, and Emily’s was from a baby shower that my dads work gave him for her. She was an Elmo Cheerleader. I love the irony that we live in the Cow state, and I bought a cow costume before we even thought of comming here.
We live near the fire station, so we stopped there, and they passed out glow in the dark necklaces! Kaitlyn loved hers. This was her playing with it in the house.