Goodbye to Halloween

Date: Nov 2nd

Per tradition we sent Halloween off with a BANG!

Yep we blew away the pumpkins!

Or I should say pumpkin.

The carved ones lasted two days in this hot weather

before they folded in half and peed out their insides all over.

No exaggeration.

And the worst part is they were still on my kitchen counter!!

Usually we just go to the wash by our home.

But on a whim we decided to load up the go kart and bigger guns

and head a couple miles north to the open desert.

I learned in 30 seconds this was a horrible place for Laiklyn to be.
She was EVERYWHERE picking up every piece of trash
and old bullet cases and putting them in her mouth.
Not to mention that massive scorpions the kids kept finding.
Ya that was enough for me
and she was immediately put in the go kart to hang out there instead!

Ryan and the kids set up the targets

Anden was mighty excited to shoot this beast instead of the bb guns

we normally use for this activity!

Reloading Station on the Trailer

Which quickly became Taylee's stage

We couldn't handle wrestling Laiklyn anymore and she got locked down with an iPad

Ahh finally I could sit back and watch the kids shoot

While periodically checking on the Tasmanian Toddler.

Yep she's still cool chilling with the iPad!

Anden decided to show me his cool moves without the guns

 Then it was time to just bash the pumpkins with rocks instead

Taylee might have underestimated the trajectory of rock ricochet

She lined up this rock much better

while Anden in the background had a whole higher level of expectations

Ok maybe good ole feet are better than boulders!

  

And one more with Laiklyn who was still hog tied in the car

And we also learned that Laiklyn must have turned the key on in the go kart

cuz the battery was totally dead.

You see she sneaks to the side yard every time she goes outside and climbs up in the kart

and pushes every button possible.

Lovely.

Good thing we loaded it up and hauled it with us! lol

The sun set too soon and so we headed out.

Since we were already in New River we stopped at 

Roadrunner Saloon for a real cowboy dinner

and to watch the action in the arena!

The kids were FREEZING (ok me too) in their short sleeves.

So we headed back home.

Once we were safely in the car with our butt warmers on high

we realized it was 73 degrees outside.

Um....ya we're Arizonan wimps!! lol