Life goes on: Annual Halloween Pumpkin Patch with Friends

We started Saturday morning with some quick cleaning in the house and breakfast. Dan headed off to work for a few hours and we headed out to Sam's Club and the Halloween store for groceries and costumes. We were out the door at 10:30 am and had to get our groceries bought and our costumes picked out, drop them back off at the house and head to the Pumpkin Patch to meet our friends at 1pm.
Katelynn had decided last month what her and Junior were going to be for Halloween already - Princess Peach and Mario from Mario Bros. I had a talk with Katelynn that morning and explained to her how cute I thought her idea was that they would match, but that if we got to the costume store and Junior found something else that he wanted to be that she would need to be okay with it, but she could still be Princess Peach. She said that she understood. I sometimes wonder if she really does or she just says that so that the "serious" talk can be over with?
We found Katelynn's Princess Peach costume almost instantly after walking in and found her size so she was all set. Junior found a display of Lightning McQueen and Cars costumes and I really thought for a second that he was going to ask to be Lightning McQueen. Katelynn quickly pointed out that she spotted the Mario and Luigi Costumes and directed him over to that display instead. He took it like a trooper and I asked him who he wanted to be and he said "Mario". We found his size and then headed over to the adult section. Dan has his costume from last year that didn't get worn so he will be a copy this year. I was looking and looking and looking some more for a costume for me. I am sorry, but almost every costume in there is not something that I could dress in and take my kids trick or treating in. First off - I would not be dressed appropriately and second I would freeze - well - every piece of me off walking around! I finally did decide on something at Katelynn's urgency to get out of the scary Halloween store. I tried it on when I got home and it is definitely a no go and needs to go back. At least the kids are taken care of!
It was already getting late by now to head home to drop off groceries because I took to long at the costume store. We got home brought everything in and I threw together a quick lunch we could eat in the car and we were off within 15 minutes of being at the house. We did end up showing up late, but it was fine because so was every else.
We met our friends at the Pumpkin Patch and the kids were so excited to see each other. They ran around and played and played on the playground equipment and checked out the animals at the petting zoo piece. It was in the 80's and hot, hot, hot standing outside. There was also a face painter at the Pumpkin Patch and the kids decided they wanted their faces painted. We said that was fine and got in line. We stood in line for our kids for what seemed to be 3 hours, it was really probably close to 30 - 45 minutes, but it took forever. We let 3 of our kids get their faces painted and the 3 youngest had to miss out because we were all done hanging out in the one spot. We headed into the Corn maze which is always interesting with 6 little kids and 3 moms who may or may not be paying attention. We of course let the kids lead us around and they had a blast, but it always gets that point where we have over stayed our welcome in the corn and we just want out. I think that we were more successful this year than the last time and found our way out relatively quick. After that we took some pictures of the kids by the pumpkins. I had a great spot all picked out that would have been great lighting, but it also put the kids in a terrible spot to look up at the camera because they were looking directly into the sun. After some cries and screams from the kids after trying their best to look up we quickly moved them to another spot. Sorry kiddos! We took our pictures and it was apparent that the kids were pooped. No naps and running around for 3 hours will do that to them. Us moms decided that next time we need to remember to take pictures first because the kids get all sweaty and dirty from running around. It was a great day and it was so nice to get to see my girlfriends and hang out for a few hours. My kids were zonked on the way home.