Harvest Festival

On October 31st, commonly known as Halloween, my friend Shannon invited us to join them at their church for a Harvest Festival, in place of the normal Halloween trick-or-treating. I was thrilled for the idea, being I'm not so into the actual holiday since having kids and researching it's background. Kent wasn't going to make it home in time, so us ladies just took the kids. It was freezing cold and got dark in a hurry! But the toddlers enjoyed playing some games and getting candy. Naturally.

 Miss blue eyes loves being worn in the front pack.

Jaxon Willard and Shayla Jade

Baby Rhianna Alexis

 First things, first! Climbing the straw bale pyramid

 Quickly made his way to the top!

 Waiting to see if Shayla was going to join him...

 She wasn't coming, and then a guy randomly dropped a big scoop full of candy on the lower bales, then she came running ;) Jaxon was funny and didn't just take any ol' piece he saw, he made sure it was a kind he liked!

 You can see with his once piece and her bag full, who gets candy often and who doesn't :P Shayla didn't care a bit what kind it was!

 Begging them to pay attention and smile..I asked for them to show me their teeth. Shayla gladly pointed to hers :)

 And on to the games. Jaxon was pumped to get to use a 'shoot gun'. If they hit the target they got more candy than if they didn't. Of course he had to hit it!

 This was just a bunch of straw spread out with candy mixed in. Once again he was being picky, but did get a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup for his Dad!

 It had been advertised that there would be a bbq there, so we went hungry of course, but something fell through. We had to hit McD's drive thru on the way home! I was amazed at all the parking lots having trick-or-treating things set up sponsored by radio stations and such. Better than most neighborhoods these days!

 And I purchased myself a caramel apple for 25 or 50 cents, now I can't remember for sure!