Halloween

Halloween in Salt Lake City is way different than the Halloweens we had back in Raleigh. Then again, Utah is very different than Raleigh. 

Our neighbors have ghosts holding hands. 

We went for a hay ride to pick out some pumpkins at the pumpkin patch. 

We carved pumpkins at home on our deck and lit the fire pit for some post-carving s'mores. 

Jeff made his classic face on a pumpkin, Kyle carved a monkey, Emily a wolf howling at the moon, and I carved Darth Vader and Yoda for myself and Aaron. 

Octoberfest at Snowbird

Snowbird knows how to celebrate. They host Octoberfest up there each year for several weekends. We had to partake and of course enjoyed ourselves there again. We tasted the tastes of Octoberfest and followed that up with a walk on the mountain. It was cook because it was really fall colliding with winter. 

Track out

Kyle and Em were off for the better part of September. This was essentially their summer break. Kids on this track actually get June off, but the new school year starts in July so they didn't get the June break because that was technically last school year's break when they were on a different track. 

Anyhow, we had some fun over their break. We went ice skating several times. We sure were missing Simon there. The second time we went, our friends came along with us and they all ended up skating for 3 hours (with breaks of course). 

We also visited a pumpkin / fall farm with friends. The kids had a blast seeing the animals, riding the slide, burying themselves in corn, jumping on the magic pillow and panning for rocks. 

All the kids buried in corn

Aaron pushing Annie on the swing