Pumpkin & Chili Festival

For those of you that know us, October is always an extremely busy month full of lots of fun activities. Well October of 2009 fell right in line. We were constantly on the go - and with the hundreds of pictures I took . . . let's just say it's going to take me a little bit to get caught up!

We went to a Pumpkin & Chili festival with my niece Brittany, her husband Ben and their two kids. Last year we went for the first time to this particular festival with them also and had such a great time, we've been looking forward to going again all year long. Finally the day came. We went earlier this year than we did last year and we still didn't get to do everything there. We ended up leaving a little early. We all got worn out & our allergies were going crazy! But well worth it!

We Love Sonic at our house & couldn't pass up the opportunity to pose with the Sonic drink:

Ryan got to spin the Sonic wheel of prizes and won his choice of anything off the table. He picked a Sonic football that has been going to school with him everyday since the festival:
Baylee won a super cool Sonic straw:

Family pics before we got too tired and dirty from all the fun. Here are the Harper's:

The Halls - thanks for going with us on this fun day!

They have the coolest go-karts there. Ryan remembered them from last year and couldn't wait to get on them again this year. You pedal them yourself. They set up a really fun & sometimes tricky course to ride on. By the time you get done you are actually pretty tired. There are two courses with different karts - one for families where two people pedal and up to four can ride and another course for single riders. Ben got to pedal his whole family by himself. Way to go Ben! I tried to take picture of them while I was being bumped around on our kart by Doug & Ryan. They were literally trying to see if they could bump me off the kart.

Doug & Ryan on the single go-karts:

Doug, Ryan and Ben waiting in line for the swings:

Ben playing airplane:

Ryan flying high:

Ryan shooting tennis balls at targets:

Ben & Baylee's turn. Halfway through their turn, their "strings" broke, so Ben improvised and threw the balls at the target.Ryan & Baylee on the airplane ride. He wanted to take Baylee on the ride. She was excited to go on the ride with Ryan but was more excited about getting the plane with the flames.

Last year we didn't eat there. This year we had to have some chili. It was pretty good. Here's Ryan with his hot dog meal:

Doug & I split this chicken and chili meal:

Ben & Brittany shared a hot dog and pulled pork sandwich with Baylee:

While eating, Payton let me take a bunch of pictures of him. What a cutie!

Mini golf time. I'm not sure how they think this works well, but all the golf balls are white! Ryan lost his in the bushes. It was really dark off the course. So I let him have mine. Then like two holes later he found another stray ball so we all got to finish the game. We don't ever keep score, we just go for the fun of it.

Waiting for our turn to golf:

For those of you that have almost given up on me posting here, keep checking back, there are plenty of more fun activities from October that I will be getting ready to post soon!