Halloween Fun, Part 2: Kerber's Dairy Farm and The Disney's Store Halloween Dress Rehearsal

Vash's preschool takes an annual trip to Kerber's Dairy Farm, and as long as you pay, all the children in the family can come along. Which means, this ended up being a really fun day trip for me and the kids.

We spend a good 45 minutes playing on the equipment with the other children from the school. And Vash was such a good protector! Some of the bigger kids kept cutting in front of Rhyla for the slide, so he stepped right up behind her, held out his arm, said "Here you go Ya-ya," and wouldn't let anyone by until she could climb up and into the slide's mouth. I almost cried, I thought it was so sweet. 

They had a much longer slide that went all the way down the hill, but they had someone monitoring that one so there wasn't any cutting allowed. 

Placed around the fields, they had a handful of these cutouts to pose with. They tried to smile, but unfortunately the sun was in their eyes.

Vash found a creepy crawly and just had to touch it. Rhyla wanted to look but said it was too spooky to pet.

Another cutout. If you could hear Vash in this picture, he'd be saying, "Ooooh, I'm a ghost-est!"

And if you could hear him in this one, he'd be saying, "No Rhyla! You're not a spooky Ghost-est! Get down!"

We got to take a hayride out to the pumpkin patch and they let us pick one pumpkin each. It was pretty bouncy and several of the other mothers asked me if I thought I'd get bounced into labor. I just laughed because one, my babies stick around until they're due, and two, that's an old wives tale. (Unless you're on a yoga ball which, if bounced on vigorously enough, theoretically could break your water and start labor.)

And after the hayride, everyone got ice cream. Vash picked the yellow one before I could even tell him it was going to taste like birthday cake. He must have liked it though because he ate it all!

And Rhyla picked pink before I told her it was cotton candy. She put quite a dent in it, but it was a lot of ice cream so it didn't get finished. (For the record, I enjoyed a pumpkin cheesecake ice cream. It was fabulous. Wish I had some right now....)

And the kids just couldn't wait to decorate the pumpkins, so Grandpa brought over some paint that night and we let them at it. (They were too little to carve, but I think they liked the painting better anyways.)

Especially since they got to do it all by themselves.

Vash was sure to give his pumpkin hair and a face. But the back side, he said, got all sucked up in a tornado and looked like a hot mess. LOL. 

Couldn't help myself. I painted Jack Skellington on my pumpkin. Craig said he was creepy but I think he's cute.

Left to Right: Rhyla's, Vash;s, Mine.

When we finally found a Disney Store in the area, the first thing I did was ask them if they did the free Halloween parties like the stores in AZ did. While they didn't offer as many, they did in fact do them, so...Guess where we went.

First stop they let you make a bag; your choice of either Mike or Sulley from Monster's Inc.

Both kids chose Sulley; I love that Rhyla's looks a bit like a Picasso/Groucho Marx because she used the horns as eyebrows. LOL. They did a good job.

And then you trick or treat around the store and they hand out a healthy snack (dehydrated apples), a set of stickers, and some collecting cards. I thought the kids would want to stay and participate in the parade around the store, but they were tuckered out and ready to go home after hitting up all the stations.

Best part of the evening? When all the workers were super impressed that both my children knew most if not all of the words to the Grim Grinning Ghosts song and were singing along while walking around.