Fall Fun

There are a lot of fun things to do in the fall.  It seems like we are always on the go in October enjoying the cooler weather.  

The best thing to do in the fall is jump in the leaves of course!  Charlotte and her new friend, Everett, have a blast playing together and burying each other in the leaves.  

The next tradition we always do in the fall is go to a corn maze.

The maze at the American West Heritage Center is always the best one.  This year we tried to go through the maze without a map.  We mostly just ran around searching for the next right corner to turn on.  Finally we pulled out the map and found out where we were.  The kids still wanted to do it without the map so I just kept a hold of it just in case.  We had a blast.

The American West Heritage Center also puts on a Fall Festival every year and we love going to it.  While there we learned how to shuck corn, make apple cider, and see all of the animals.  

We also got to play on the fun yard games they had near the corn maze.  This year, along with the fun hay fort, slide, and other yard games, there was a corn catapult.  The kids loved trying to get the corn to fly into the buckets.  Colby even tried to shoot the corn over the hay barrier.  We told him to be careful and not hit anyone on the other side.  

We love riding on the trains and ponies too.

This year Charlotte and Logan were the only ones that wanted to ride the ponies.  Emily would have but she is too old now and Colby is too cool now.  Oh well, the two littlest had a good time. 

Finally we learned how to make corn husk dolls.  Once again Logan and Charlotte were the only ones that wanted to make them.  They had a good time making their little dolls and they turned out really cute.  I guess we are starting to out grow the Fall Festival but we will still go for Charlotte and Logan.

Russell did not draw out for the deer hunt this year but his dad did.  We headed down to St. George so he and the boys could go hunting with Grandpa Farnsworth and Uncle Tyler. 

It was a lot of fun to hang our with my boys, Tyler and my Dad. We went up to Pinto area first and saw one really small two point early in the morning. I was kind of bummed. We got up early enough, but we could not find the road we were looking for, so we got to the area later than we expected. I bet we would have seen more if we were there before first light. Oh well it was a great time four wheeling and trying to find the thirty point buck. We next went up to Enterprise where Dad wanted to try out. It was a great area and a lot of fun trails. Dad was tired, so we found him a great shady spot and the rest of us went hiking up the mountain. We found a really cool overlook and the boys found a really cool hide and seek place.

They had a great time four-wheeling and riding around searching for deer.  Unfortunately they did not see any bucks so they didn't get deer.  That seemed to be okay with Grandpa Farnsworth because I don't think he really wanted to get a deer.  One crazy thing they did find though was a huge tarantula!  While out in Enterprise, they went to the Holt Cemetery to see Great Grandpa and Grandma Farnsworth's grave.  

During October I did another mileage challenge.  I participated in the 35 Mile Breast Cancer Challenge.  I needed to do 35 mile of walking, running, or riding in the month.

At first Charlotte and I were walking the dog about every day but we couldn't get enough miles in with her little legs and walking takes a long time.  Then my doctor said that it would be okay if I started riding my bike again.  This was great because I was able to add more miles for this challenge.  I have definitely missed riding my bike.  The best part was riding around and seeing all of the fall leaves and fields.  The rides were much slower and more leisurely than before but still great.  I was able to achieve my goal of 35 miles this month and raised $225 for Cancer Research in the process.

Another fun thing we have been doing this month is a little bit of hiking.  

We have lived here for 5 years and we have never been on the Blacksmith Fork River Trail until now.  We have definitely been missing out!  This was a good little trail that Russell and I took Charlotte and Truly on while the other kids were at school.  We walked a little over a mile up the trail and back.  The trail keeps going up the canyon so we will have to go back with the kids and go further.  

We are enjoying the Fall and the nice weather.