Our ward went all out and I was impressed with the decor and activities for such a large Primary. The youth (YM,YW) put it together. We had a great bunch of youth! We all were a little sad that they don't do Trunk-or-Treating here though. Maybe next year we can talk them into it next year.
We made it to Cornbelly's this year and boy are we glad! Cornbelly's is a super family fun place that's open during the month of October. We spent 3 hours there in freezing (literally) temperatures! It was that fun!
Hay tunnels.
Pedal Kart racing.
The kids had a mini corn maze with the "Corn Snake". I love Reese's face. She was getting pretty cold at this point.
Caden had fun in the giant pile of corn and made a "corn angel" for us.
Can you tell they wanted to have their picture taken at every one of these?
After we warmed up by the fire and got some kettle corn popcorn and hot chocolate, we headed in to the 12 acre corn maze. We chose to do the 30 minute route and it took us about that much time to finish. They also had a haunted corn maze, but we chose not to do that one this year with the kids.
The kids were bouncing on some bounce castles when Reese heard her Little Mermaid song come on. She ran up to the stage, put on a princess outfit and started to dance her little heart out. It was the cutest thing.
Then her brothers came in with swords and fought and that was that.
Reese in Cinderella's pumpkin carriage.
I love Gavin in this picture. Reese wanted a picture inside the carriage with a driver. We forced Gavin up and he wasn't happy about it. lol
About this time the kids were getting pretty cranky and wanted to leave (we hadn't planned to be there so long and weren't prepared for such cold).
This place was pretty much the coolest "pumpkin patch" we've ever been to. It's gonna be hard to find something this cool when we get back to Texas.
On our way out, the kids noticed a whole other side to Cornbelly's and suddenly put aside their crankiness for another half hour of fun. But my camera battery died. Hay rides, cow train rides and pillow bounces... WE LOVE YOU CORNBELLY!
We woke up to snow, our first of the season, on the 25th of October. I didn't realize I needed to beat the snow to the pumpkin patch! I'll have to remember that next year.
School field is white.
The kids thought it was neat and that they would not have school. HAHAHAHA. We are in Utah my children, they never cancel snow for the cold white stuff!
Well, my baby girl is SIX years old now! I can hardly believe it. Gone are the ways of My Little Pony and Barbie is in full force. Reese wanted a Barbie birthday party and she got her wish. We went easy with the cake and just did cupcakes. 
Reese chose the theme, games, cake and helped shop for what she wanted for gift bags and decor for her party. It was all her. The girls played "Hot Pony". This was a big hit. We may have played about 30 rounds!
Finley and Chelsea were there.
Bean was there!
That's about how I felt with 11 girls in my home. At least they weren't boys!
We played pin the fashion sunglasses on Barbie. Christopher whipped up a drawing of Barbie (within a few minutes...does his talent ever end?).
Reese and I made a Fashionista Barbie (Reese's favorite barbies at the moment) matching game. It turned out to be really fun AND they got to take one home.
Not sure what Finley's take was on the game.
Another game was the "guess which piece of the Barbie outfit is missing" game. They had to guess what was missing and describe what the article looked like.
The girls got to fashion their own pair of sunglasses to take home.
Then it was time for cake and more singing!
Girl parties are so different than boy parties. These girls just sat around and talked and gossiped like it was a tea party whereas boys would have been making bodily noises, screaming and running and climbing over things. These girls were super cute. And Reese was the perfect hostess.
Present time!
After presents it was time for party blow outs while we waited for parents to come.
Christopher thought that he could take a nap after the party....Finley had other plans.