The Witches!

One of our favorite Halloween traditions is to visit the Witches at Gardner Village! We have done this every year since Brooklyn was born. It's gotten harder to find a day to go with Brooklyn in preschool. Last Thursday, I was looking at the calendar trying to decide when to go. Then I watched the news and the weather convinced me if I was going to go to the Witches I had to go immediately. It's no fun in the cold.
We decided to take a trip as a family on Friday night. We got there around 5:30 pm and knew we had made a mistake. The place was packed! It was Witches Night Out! Everyone was decked out in their costumes, mainly witches, and here we were wearing our normal clothes. :) If I were driving, I would have turned around and gone home, but Marty was committed. We found a place to park and hiked into the village! It turned out to be a really fun night!! And the weather couldn't have been more perfect. The kids didn't need their jackets until the end. We did the best we could to just enjoy it as we normally would and it worked out really well. We took a ton of pictures and I loved a lot of them so I had to share!
Brooklyn has been giving us a fake smile lately for pictures. We figured out if we tell her to laugh, she will let out a giggle and then we get to see her genuine smile.
Walking around.
There were several new witches this year. Brooklyn loved this firefighter one with water that blew over the bridge.
Pretty cool!
I love all the wagons.
This witch was like the Princess and the Frog, which Brooklyn loves. Eliza was a little unsure.
No fear though, she went right over and sat down (hesitantly!) I think all the witches walking around were what really made her nervous.
This is my favorite witch because it's the same one every year and we always get a picture sitting by her. I had to sit with the girls to show them it was safe.
Then Eliza was fine to sit by herself.
Well, if Eliza can do it then Brooklyn had to as well. Wow! Brooklyn hasn't sat by this witch alone for the last two year.
Daddy and his girls.
Marty wanted to play in the leaves. Do you see his mischievous look?
Watch out!
They all got into it and really enjoyed themselves. I enjoyed taking the pictures.
Eliza trying to get all the leaves off her.
The bike witch is another favorite.
They were selling these hats, but we just posed for a picture.
That's it!
The girls had a fabulous time!!!
Haha, as were were walking back to our car, Brooklyn decided she needed to take a picture of Marty and I. She sat us down and this is what we got.
And this...
Ah, finally! It's actually a really good picture. I had to laugh though. It was another fun fall family night!