The Holidays Blurring Together

I know it's a week before Halloween but we have already been thinking about Thanksgiving.  So this year, we're going to have Thanksgiving at our house.  And so far we have 8 attending.  We'll see how this goes.  It could be clash of the families or it could turn out great.  I'm hoping for the latter of the two.

Karate Halloween Party

Last night was the Halloween party for the karate studio.  They had music and fog machines and candy and food and games and candy and a costume contest and some more candy.  We had fun and didn't leave hungry.       For the pinata- the kids had to punch it with sparring gloves.

Krystal's Fall Festival

Rionn's school doesn't do a Halloween party.  Well they do but not like the ones when Cole and I were in school.  Where we had a costume parade and cookies and candy.  But instead, Krystal had a fall festival.  And costumes and games, and face painting, and food, and pictures, and a scary maze.  We had a blast and came home with a lot of candy.

Mojave River Trail Days

Over the weekend, I got to take some buckles to the Mojave River Trail Days.  And since it was on the way to grandma's house, it wasn't way out of the way for our day either.  After dropping off the buckles, we walked around the booths.  Rionn got a much needed new cowboy hat.  We watched a blacksmith making horse shoes. 

We also got to pan for gold.

We got only fool's gold.  But that's better than nothing, right?

He also got to ride a pony.  The lady gave him a choice of riding a pony named Barbie, or one named Harry Potter.  He, of course, chose Harry Potter.

 And watched all kinds of steam engines doing what they do.  

I also let him take an old fashioned picture.  I was a little worried about spending so much on one 8X10 photo.  But it came out great.   He first wanted to be a train robber, then decided he was going to be the sheriff.  

Over all, we had a great time.  We even watched the mounted shooting while waiting for the photo.  And while it was more than hot and slightly humid, we made it till lunch.