Halloween 2020

I wanted to take the kids down to the corn maze in Sumner sometime before Halloween.  We talked about doing it on a school day and just pulling the kids out a few hours early, but Jason didn’t want to miss any school or try to be online in the car so that left us the day of Halloween.  The bonus of holding off was that Carly was able to come along as well.

 

I thought for sure it would be crazy crowded since it was Halloween, the last day of the season, and it was a BEAUTIFUL fall day.  We got there fairly early, around 10am – after picking up some Chick-fil-A in Covington for breakfast and were surprised to find that it wasn’t busy at all.  Yay!

The theme for the corn maze this year was Peter Pan and the goal was to find all the Lost Boys and then find your way out the maze to collect your prize.  

The kids completed it much quicker than I expected – less than an hour.  We took a few pictures around the farm and raced the rubber duckies down the water shoots and then headed out.

We decided to hit up WinCo since it was so close by.  Those kiddos that stuck their heads in the crocodiles mouth (see pictures above) got to pick out some candies out of the bulk bins.  We also hit up a few other food joints including picking up our free BonBites from Cinnabon (nothing to rave about) from this week’s T-Mobile Tuesday promo and then $5 lunches at Café Rio in Kent to celebrate their reopening after being closed over 7 months due to COVID.  None of us were particularly hungry but we couldn’t pass up some good deals on food.  We also stopped at Crumbl Cookies so I could pick up a box of cookies for my two friends who are quarantining due to catching the virus.

 

Abigail called to chat a bit this afternoon before heading to the BYU game that night – looked like my “nerdy” daughter was getting in the Halloween spirit as well.  

Love seeing Abigail at the game with an old friend from our days in Auburn

Drew and Katie were looking forward to trick-or-treating with our neighbors.  I wasn’t 100% sure we’d be trick-or-treating this year at all but it sounded like enough of the neighborhood was planning on it that we forged ahead.  Lots of houses found ways to minimize contact by creating candy shoots or by setting up tables of candy so kids could just take one right off the table.  There weren’t as many houses participating and less than the normal trick-or-treaters, but it was still a great night – again beautiful weather.  Drew’s little buddy even proclaimed, “it was the best Halloween ever!”

Meanwhile back at home Jason was hanging out with his friend Aubrey.  They made some chocolate chip cookies and watched a movie while Justin and Aubrey’s dad watched the BYU game – a now annual Halloween night tradition.  We had very few trick-or-treaters on our street this year so there were minimal interruptions while watching the game and lots of leftover Halloween candy.  

I’m going to take it as a personal success as a mother that at the end of the night my teenage son proclaimed that “if it wasn’t for COVID it would have been the perfect Halloween” and ignore the fact that he was likely only referring to the wonderful weather, loads of candy and extra hour of sleep we’d be getting (end of day light savings).