The Tangrens

Then we were racing daylight to the Red Barn. We got there just as a wagon load of people took off to the pumpkin patch so we decided to go into the barn to check things out in there. We found the winners from the annual biggest pumpkin contest.

And climbed a mountain of hay bales.

Twilight was falling as the hayride came back to take us out to the patch. I tried to get a picture of us all in the wagon but it was just too dark to get a clear picture at that distance. I tried anyway.

By the time we got to the pumpkin patch it was entirely dark. We had thought that they'd have flood lights on the patch but nope we were let off of the hay wagon into the darkness. But it didn't matter in the least to Hyrum he ran right for the ghost face hole picture op.

and the pumpkins on a fence one too.

Then made a beeline for the crate maze.

Then we went back to pick a pumpkin in the dark. Thank heaven we had Derek's phone that had a flashlight app but we didn't truly know what the pumpkins looked like till we saw them in the sun the next day. While we waited with our pumpkin we looked at the different star constellations in the sky. It was perfect because Hyrum was in the middle of a space month at preschool.

Before too long the tractor was there to take us back to the barn. To me, who's been on a few haunted hayrides in my day, it was kinda spooky. Every time we slowed down for any reason I totally expected to have something almost fall on us or someone come running at us dripping in fake blood or with a chainless chainsaw. The boys, who didn't have any of these things going through their heads, were not scared at all and thought it was GREAT!

The next day we went to a birthday party of one of Hyrum's friends at Jumpin' Jacks. Hyrum had been looking forward to this party for WEEKS. Ever since they brought the invitation that was complete with a grass head lion that Hyrum got to paint.

As soon as we got there he took off his shoes and was gone he made a beeline for the biggest slide in the building. He and the birthday boy were peas in a pod climbing and sliding away.

Noah took a little while to warm up to the slides

He just ran back and forth through this. Then he discovered the slides. Derek took him up with him and I assumed that Noah would go down with him too until I saw his little self screaming down the biggest slide by himself. And he LOVED it. I ran over thinking he'd be crying and he was laughing. Apparently he wouldn't let Derek take him down. He wanted to go by himself.

He even tried to climb up himself as well. He got farther than we thought he would.

Hyrum and Noah checked out all of the slides and had a GREAT time. Most of the time in between slides Noah would run over to a little table with a bead wire toy that he was equally enamored with. Hyrum never stopped.

After the party we had a BYU football watching party at the house for the only game they were showing on BYUTV. They won which was expected but it was fun to actually see them play since we are too cheap to pay for ESPN.

The next day, all too soon, they had to leave but we can't wait to see them in a few weeks at Thanksgiving.