Late October Happenings

Welcome to the second half of October! Have you ever seen a turkey in a tree?  Well I did!

I didn't think they could fly this high!  But look up in that tree in the center of the picture!

Tom Brady also had his 600th career pass touchdown in the second half of October! Can't beat that!  (Literally!)

Our realtor Craig, who lives here in Ashland has a big Halloween display in his front yard and it was EPIC.  

Grant was ready to head into the Morrison house Halloween maze!

It was delightfully creepy!

Feed me Seymour!

Grant had better watch out - he's about to get taken out by the Grim Reaper!

Nothing delights Todd more than creepy baby dolls.

I liked this jumbo sized skeleton that stood watch over the prisoner AND the guy sitting in the electric chair.  The best part was that there was a button you could click and actually electrocute the poor guy.

Clowns are a SOLID NO for me.

The best part of visiting Craig's haunted front yard was that when we went through the corn maze, we saw a shadowy figure lurking behind the corn.  Lo and behold! It was Craig, dressed up like the Grim Reaper!  After he scared the crap out of me, he chatted with us for a bit before going off to scare some more people.  Then he came back and tried to stalk our car!

The last two days of October are always an adventure in our house, especially when they fall on a Saturday and Sunday.  The last Saturday of the month was Grant's 12th birthday and he wanted to go to Urban Air and jump on all the trampolines with the crew.  Here we have AB, Kelsie, Grant, Aidan and Natalie trying out the obstacle course.  Total last minute decision to go here.

Who's that handsome guy up there near the parent's lounge? (No. He did not slide down the corkscrew slide!)

Grant enjoyed jumping into this big pillow. AB had been doing flips into it!

Grant and Aidan did some free style jumping.

AB took everyone on in the fighting foam pit - only Natalie was able to knock him over!

He leveled Grant!

Natalie seems to have passed out from having too much fun while Kelsie looks on, and AB is still standing after beating Grant who fell into the foam pit!

Each kid took a turn flying around the facility - first up, the birthday boy!

Natalie had a turn, too!

Kelsie was our best acrobat - she really knows how to kip!

The crew hanging out at Urban Air for Grant's birthday.

Grant is getting some height here!

The kids had to take a slushie and snack break after all of that fun.

Of course, we also had cake and ice cream!  Every year, Grant asks for chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, partially because his sister doesn't like chocolate anything.

Grantie got cards and money from friends and family!

Kelsie gave him Robux and he wanted very badly to make this face when I took this picture.

Hey guys, I got Microsoft Flight Simulator Deluxe Edition!

And a joystick to go with it!

WHAT a goofball! (You know he makes these faces on purpose, right?)

But the big gift was a new super powered telescope!

On Halloween, we spent most of the day cleaning up the yard.  Let me just enjoy this for a hot minute until the rest of the leaves fall down.

Alas, it was time to get ready and go over to the Tally house for pizza before going trick or treating!

The Tally kids are the cutest!  (No, Bob the Minion isn't a part of the family.)

Brendan was left to clean up the pizza, which the kids destroyed.

Happy Halloween from all of the neighborhood kids! (And Erin too, photobombing in the doorway!)  The costumes were amazing this year!

Of course, this was totally random and NO WHERE ELSE except Metrowest, and ONLY during the most important hour of the day (6-7 pm).  The kids got soaked, but didn't care and kept on trick or treating.

Of course, we had grand plans to set up the screen and play the second half of the Pats game, but the rain had other ideas.  Once the rain moved through, the game was over, so we played Halloween songs and videos (such as "It's Halloween" by Yo Gabba Gabba, a major Bailey throwback.)

And we're on to November!