Skeletons and Pumpkins

Today two of my favorite fall festivals fell on the same day.  Since we didn't want to miss either one, we hit the Day of the Dead Festival at Cheekwood for the morning and then headed to Franklin's Pumpkin Festival for the afternoon.  We had a lot packed into one day but it was a great time.
   The Day of the Dead Festival was just as I hoped it would be.  All the beautiful Mexican art and colors, wonderful crafts, and tasty food.  The girls decorated sugar skulls, enjoyed a Mexican lunch, made print art, tissue paper flowers, and skull masks.  Noelle loved the dancers and Natalie loved picking her favorite chalk drawing with Dada.  Afterwards, we drove to Franklin for the very crowded Pumpkin Festival.  It was fun seeing all the creative costumes but it was so busy and to our great sadness, we missed the chili tasting; our favorite from last year.  We did though get some frozen yogurt at Sweet Cici's and ran into some friends from school.

   Tonight the girls get to have a babysitter and Mom and Dad will actually attend a "grown ups only" Halloween party.  It should be awesome!  More photos to come!

Halloween Fun

We returned for the second year to Ghouls at Grassmere.  It was just as amazing as last year and the girls were just as brave.  We went on the haunted hayride and then hit all the attractions including the Mad Science Lab, the Gypsy Maze, and the Trick Or Treat Trail.  This year we all dressed up.  Dada was a scary skeleton, Natalie was a black cat, Noelle was a monkey just like last year, and Momma wore a hat covered with eyeballs.  One lady in the Mad Science Lab told Natalie that she was a vampire and Natalie promptly told her "No you are not!  Vampires don't exist!"  Very funny.

Today I took the girls to another event we did last year which was the Music and Molasses Festival.  The weather was in the 80s compared to last year in the 50s!  The girls were happy to again partake in apple bobbing and petting the animals.  They also got to play with some instruments.  This year, they were introduced to a new food; the ever popular frito chili salad.  Both girls gave it a thumbs up.  They also shared some corn on a cob.  It has simply been a perfect fall weekend.