Happy Halloween!!!

Here are some pictures of the last few days leading up to Halloween. We carved pumpkins, painted pumpkins (most of the paint ended up on Olivia), made cupcakes, had a party at daycare and of course went trick or treating. Olivia was exhausted tonight and fell asleep in seconds!

Olivia and Ian got the pumpkins ready to carve, they were really dirty!

There were also some little mini pumpkins to carve, those were way cute.
Olivia loved painting, as usual, and lots or well most of the paint was on her!
My favorite pumpkin face! I love using the stem for the nose!:)Time to clean up those hands.

OOOOh, look at all the pumpkins! "Can I blow out all the candles now, Daddy?"

Then Olivia and I had a project to do some snacks for her daycare party...we made cupcake monsters. Olivia was a great little helper, she taste tested everything! The marshmallows were her particular favorite!
Finished product...
Almost ready to go out trick or treating. We were blessed with beautiful weather and Olivia was so ready to go, she didn't even want pizza for dinner! Here she is posing with the pumpkins.And finally...home with the loot. What a great time!

Sun Maze

This weekend was a great weekend for a fall outing. The weather has still been great and so we opted to drive north of Calgary to the Bowden Sun Maze. Now, I was thinking that this place would have a pumpkin patch seeing as how I searched "you pick pumpkin patches" in the area and this is what I came up with. In the end it did not have a pumpkin patch but it was a lot of fun. There were you pick flowers and you pick potatoes, we did get a few flowers, I was not about the pick out potatoes!

Look at how silly we are! And then this one of Olivia is the best... So, into the maze we go, Olivia ran ahead, at times I was thinking we would NEVER get out of it. It didn't seem to bother anyone but me. I wondered, would anyone come to get us at the end of the day if we still weren't out? Alas, we got out and all was ok. Like I said, no one else seemed to be worried... There were also some donkey's at the little farm and a little calf named, Lil Orphan Annie. Olivia unlike her mother, really enjoys petting all there animals, which is great, and it is an event she can do with daddy. Olivia got her face painted like a little kitty cat and then off she went to the mini maze for kids where she had a great time running around and jumping off the bales of hay.

When we were leaving, our little kitty cat found a kitty of her own to pet and rub its belly, the cat liked Olivia too, he jumped into the car when we opened the doors! So, it was a great day, the drive was a little long but we survived. I just wish there had been a pumpkin patch, maybe we can find one for next weekend!