Thursday, October 23, 2008

Bewitched!

The question of the hour is, how many blogs have you already read with this same entry about visiting the witches at Gardner Village last weekend?? I can say that because 1) we Utahns love to blog about what we do and 2) I do believe that every family in Utah visited Gardner Village last weekend. Buffy and I decided to take the boys last Friday because the boys were out of school for UEA weekend. We had no idea that it would bo so crowded that we would feel like we were at Disneyland. But, the boys didn't care and the place was so decked out for Halloween that it was worth it.
Here are the boys posing with their first witch (notice the fourth green face in the back.) We took the boys to get their faces painted and Henry was in no way going to let someone paint his face. He decided he would be okay with someone painting his hand though and he opted for the pumpkin. Colton went for the full-faced pirate and Dixon a pirate skull and crossbones on his cheek. (The Clark boys can always be counted on to choose something pirate themed.)

The picture of the three boys above is my favorite for two reasons. First, Henry looks as though he is trying to cover his privates, but what he is doing is showing off the pumpkin that was painted on his hand. Second, it's hard to tell from the picture, but they are standing in front of a witch reading the paper in an outhouse. It was pretty funny.


The last thing we did was to take a hayride with the witch you see in the picture above. She told a very bewitching story as we were pulled around a swamp on the hayride. It was so much fun. It ALMOST made me like Halloween as much as Christmas. I think we will go back next year, just not over UEA weekend.

3 comments:

The Bayly's said...

I can see Henry is into the "cheese" smile phase. You gotta love it. It sounds like you guys were much more adventurous than Teag and I. No hayrides or face painting for us! Our kids will most likely suffer because of our decided hatred of line waiting. Such good moms.

Buffy Clark said...

I had so much fun with you....hope it is a new tradition we just started!!!

Christi said...

Sounds like a great tradition! Jim & I used to take the kids to see the scarecrows in Park City, we miss that. You should check it out if they are still doing it, nice Sunday afternoon activity.