Friday, October 17, 2008

Party in the Patch

Our town, Brentwood, partners up with a few other neighboring towns' Parks & Rec departments to host Party in the Patch every October. There are carnival games, a huge bounce house, a bonfire with storytelling, firemen handing out candy, a hayride...all the cute small town things. It was our first test run of this year's costumes.

I can't stand how cute she is...

Our warm and cozy monkey

Watching her brother collect candy in the haunted graveyard.

This was something called "Money Hunt" where they hid coins donated by a local bank under hay and the kids had 30 seconds to find them. Nicholas ended up with 5 nickels. I think he was more interested in throwing the hay around willy-nilly than collecting the money!

It really was the biggest bounce house we've ever seen

I was amazed that she kept her hat on almost the entire time!

Yes she's eating a hot dog bun. It was carnival nutrition at its finest.

Nicholas liked all the games that involved throwing things (shocker). He got two of the three milk bottles toppled over. But for some reason he completely didn't get Ring Toss. He kept trying to throw the rings vertically instead of horizontally (if that makes sense). Clearly we'll have to practice up for next year's Party! :)

1 comment:

Rachel H said...

The kids look darling! O was that same monkey last year, so Nosy will wear it this year. Super cute...although it's awfully warm for a Dallas Halloween!