October 26, 2010

Palmer's fall harvest party

Every year our friends the Palmer's hold their annual Fall Harvest Party. Its always on a Monday. Usually the Monday before Halloween.  My children look forward to it every year.  It is sometimes better than Halloween itself. They live right behind my parents home and when you park down the dirt lane quite aways there is a tractor with a hay wagon on the back that comes to pick you up. My kids loved that. The Palmers have a beautiful place. It is pretty large and it fits everyone.

  Everyone was worried that the weather wouldn't hold up but to our luck it did. It has been raining all day long and then later on in the afternoon the rain stopped and the clouds parted alittle, enough for the sun to peak through for the sky divers.  To start the party right, Batman and Spiderman always parachute into the party.  The kids were going crazy.  I bet there are at least 200 + people at this gathering and they are waiting patiently for them to arrive.  Here is what we saw......
Then after the superheros landed another plane flew above dropping candy for all the kids to get. The plane flew over about 5 different times. Most of the time the candy landed right on top of us. Imagine candy dropping out of the sky, falling really fast and hiting you. It hurt and it hurt some of the kids. My niece Ava got pelted on her cheekbone and it also caused a bloody nose. But nonetheless, the kids had a great time. I apologize right now for the pictures.  Owen would not go with his dad and Lance ended up taking the pictures. So we will have to make do with what we have, which isn't much. Sorry!
It was really cold.  I was worried that the kids wouldn't stay warm enough but I think we did pretty good. Owen loved sitting in his stroller, as long as it was moving, and he stayed pretty warm and cozy.
There was face painting, food and tons of games for everyone.  Since it starts at 6 p.m. we don't stay late because Owen goes to bed at 6:30 and he will get pretty cranky. We stayed until 7 this year and he did pretty good.
We look forward till next year. Thank you Palmers! We had a great time!

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