Iona

October was a busy month, but we wanted to get up to Iona to visit Grandpa and Henry's grave one last time before baby comes.

We thought it'd be fun to go to a pumpkin patch and carve pumpkins while in Iona.  Apparently, pick your own pumpkin patches with activities for kids and such aren't really a thing in Idaho Falls area.  We thought there would be several since there are tons of farms, but I guess they don't grow pumpkins!  We finally found one and enjoyed the activities:

She was scared to come down- Dad to the rescue!

Riding the train!

The kids' hay bale maze:

The activities were good, but the pumpkins were not.  It was so picked over and most of what was left in the field was rotten.  The pumpkins weren't grown there, but placed (there were cut corn stalks) so I'm guessing southeastern Idaho isn't a good place for pumpkins.  We ended up going to Albertsons and buying pumpkins there!

Hattie was super excited about the idea of carving pumpkins, but soon lost interest when she realized it was more of a grown up job.  And she refused to touch the pumpkin guts, the part she could have done!  So it was mostly an activity for me and Kurt.  They turned out well though!  Hattie loved having them on our front porch:

And of course, we visited Henry.  We were distraught to find his headstone filthy upon arrival.  So we got some supplies from Grandpa's garage and cleaned it up.  My amazing 95 year old grandpa helped, so Henry and Grandma's graves are now both in great shape.

Some Halloween decorations for our sweet boy!

Happy Halloween Henry!