Pop Goes the Monkey

Halloween was pretty hectic this year. At 4:00 the family came up to my work for some Trick-or-Treating there. Sandy has never been inside my new office, so that’s nice. Cassie was so funny cause she wouldn’t get within five feet of anyone passing out candy. And no matter how much we prodded, she wouldn’t say “thank you” much less “Trick-or-Treat”.

After my work, we had to be a Trunk-or-Treat at our church building at 5:30. Funny story, on the way back from my office, Cassie asked Sandy for a sucker. Sandy said, she could have one and handed Cassie her candy bucket. A few minutes later Sandy heard Cassie giggling and looked back at her, only to find that Cassie had shoved as many suckers in her mouth as she could. Little white sticks were going in every direction.

After the Trunk-or-Treat, we headed home so that we could give candy out to the same little monsters we saw at the Trunk-or-Treat. I took Cassie around the block so she could gain some valuable Halloweening experience that is sure to come in handy later in life. We started out going at the same time as Cassie’s friend Winston. But Cassie was a little bit slower so she kept losing sight of him. Then a few minutes later we’d see him again and she’d get so excited and demand we followed him until we lost him again.

After the last of the tikes came knocking on our door, my mom, Sophie, Michael and Emily came over so they could see Cassie and Peter all dressed up. Cassie had a bit of a sugar buzz, as I’m sure the vast majority of American children did. She was bouncing all over the place and somehow kept showing up with more candy she had hoarded somewhere.

On the whole, it was pretty fun. More pictures are provided below for your viewing pleasures.

So I finally got around to plugging in our old family PC. He’s been gathering dust for the past six months or so and since we have four other computers, I haven’t been pressed to get him operational. But I finally plugged him in and was able to copy all our family photos off of it and onto our media PC.

Anyways, with Halloween approaching in a few short days, I thought it might be fun to break open the archives and show off Cassie’s first two Halloweens.

2006

In 2006, Cassie was 3 and a half months olds and about as interesting as those flour babies they make you carry around in middle school. So here she is, dressed in a glorified potato sack:

2007

The next year, Cassie was a walking, babbling star. She also was (and still is) quite opinionated, and there is one thing we know for certain: she hated her Halloween costume. For the most part, she screamed and screamed until we took the costume off. Then she happy again.

Tune back in this weekend for Cassie’s and Peter’s latest Halloween adventures!

Sandy came and brought the kids up to my work tonight so that we could drive over to Thanksgiving Point. They’ve got a lot of fun stuff going on right now. We decided to do their Barnyard Boo since Cassie’s still pretty young and we had to lug Peter around.

We did the the Barnyard Boo last year as well with Sam and Jessie for Cadence’s birthday. It’s pretty fun for the little ones. There’s a lot of random activities and lots of animals to look at. It’s fun because Cassie knows how to say the names of all the farm animals, but this is the first time she’s seen them all in person while knowing what they are.

She’s pretty bashful around them, though and she never really wanted to get too close. She also didn’t want to try the pony rides again this year. She just likes to keep her distance and name the animals from afar. She does pretty good with the names and sounds, but for some reason she thinks pigs are really pirate piggies. Weird?!

Cassie and I went to the pumpkin patch at the South Ridge Farms in Santaquin today. It was pretty fun. We took a ‘hayride’ which really means a trailer being pulled by a tractor. The hayride pulled us down through their orchard’s to a pumpkin patch filled with pumpkins of every shape and size. We picked out one for for each member of the Thomson clan.

The weather was pretty cold, enough that we saw a small amount of snow on the hayride. As you can see, Cassie didn’t appear to be enjoying herself at the start. But we bundled up and she did fairly well once we arrived at the pumpkin patch, she cheered up and seemed like she was having a good time.

See more photos below: