Palmer's Fall Party

It was that time of the year. It has become our family tradition to go to the Palmer's Fall Party.  It is a great event that our friends put on each year at their home.  It isn't Halloween until we have gone to the Palmer's party either in our home.  Our boys look forward to it every year and this year was just as good.

Can you tell what Ellie was for Halloween? Grandma was so kind to stay behind and watch her while she slept the entire time, by the way. Thank you Ellie!

I miss the days when I had control over what my kids could dress up as. This year they really wanted to be Power Rangers. We said "No way!" So they settled for ninjas instead. It's doable.

 Owen still has to say in what he gets to be. He is a cute little tiger this year.

 My neice Olivia was the cutest little monster I ever saw. Isn't she just so sweet?

We all met up at Grandma and Grandpa's house.  They live just down the road from where the party started.  So Grandpa pulled up to the back of their house and we loaded all the kiddos up into the back of the truck and drove down to Charlie Horse Lane.  There is always a hayride waiting to carry all the people back to the place.  My kids loved it! Owen loved that tractors were involved.  I am not sure where his fasination for tractors started but he was in heaven.
Every year Batman and Spiderman parachute into the party.  The wind died down just in time for them to make their appearance.  All the kids went crazy.  When I say kids, there are probably at least 200 kids there.  All waiting for them to land, so they can run up and see the superheros.  So they did it again this year.  It was so fun to see. I don't think Owen really got into it but the other ones sure did. Our good friends who live next door met us there and their children drew pictures for them and I think Batman and Spiderman were alitlte suprised with that but loved it just the same.

They always have Chili and cornbread to eat, but since that doesn't sit to well with a nursing mom and little kids tummies we had dinner with Grandma and Grandpa before the party started.
There were a lot of things to do there.  After the superheros land the wicked witch of the west flies over in her little plane and drops candy off for all the kids to run and find.  She flew over about 4 times and each time the kids went crazy.

Here comes the plane

 Can you see all the candy it was dropping off?

 Even adults did too.  Sometimes you had to duck in fear of a hard candy getting you in the face. Believe me it happened last year and my neice got a black eye because of it.
It was a litte chilly this year so we headed back home after the candt was collected. W were all okay with that and it was bed time.
Another great year. Another great tradition. I love this time of year.