Fall [was] in the air

We finally made it to the Sweet Berry Farm fall festival this year. I've been meaning to do it for about the past 3 years and we've never gotten around to it! This year, I made it a Girl Scout outing, so I had to go! We had 2 of the other Daisies join us with another mom, so that was fun. The kids always enjoy horseback riding, hayrides, and games. They also painted pumpkins, which we realized we had left behind only when we were halfway back from Marble Falls. Luckily, we warded off any major meltdowns by reminding them that we could do our own pumpkins at home for Halloween. Phew!

For Halloween, we had another princess on hand. This time, she was accompanied by Spider-Man. They made a perfect team, along with 3 witches, a black cat, Bo Beep and her sheep, all from the neighborhood!

Both kids participated in the 1K fun run at Abby's school for their annual Fall Festival. Such serious competitors!

Later in the morning, Will won the cake walk and picked this huge cake decorated as a pumpkin. Had we thought about it more, we might not have chosen to START the festival there, but who could know we'd have to carry around a pumpkin cake all day?

Part of the festival is a kids' auction. Kids put tickets in bags for each item, to be selected by raffle later that day. Abby preferred to play the games with her tickets, but she did put 1 ticket in each of two baskets. Will put at least 7 tickets in the "Cars" extravaganza basket. He didn't understand why he couldn't walk away with it then and there. For 3 days, he kept asking if anyone had called to tell us that he won the basket. 

And then, the call came. Abby had won the Barbie basket. Great. I tried to be nonchalant about it when I went to pick it up but, of course, I had to take him with me. And, of course, the other 3 year-old boy who actually won the basket had to be in line right in front of us claiming his prize. Poor Will lost it all over again. I reminded him about winning the cake, but somehow that didn't make it any better. Life just isn't fair sometimes. Especially when you're 3.