I love the weekend before Halloween. There are an abundance of fall-themed activities, the weather is gorgeous and the neighborhood decorations and fun and festive. Finn and I made the most of this past weekend and hit the pumpkin patch, participated in a costume 5K, trunk or treated and Finn went to the Renaissance Festival. He wore his costume on three separate occasions and our house is already full of candy and we haven’t even made it to actual Halloween night!

Here’s a little weekend recap. It was the best!

FRIDAY: HALL FAMILY FARM

I picked Finn up from school on Friday and we loaded up the car to head to Hall Family Farm. This was our third visit in as many years and it’s become a fun fall tradition.

Finn made a beeline for this year’s new activity – the Goat Walk. I’m still trying to figure out what a ropes/zipline course has to do with fall on the farm but Finn had a blast and that’s all that matters. He was pretty fearless up there!

Next up was the hayride – we love this one so much.

And we finished with the corn maze! This was our first time attempting the two-mile adult maze instead of the kid’s version and we gave it our all. We decided to bail once it got dark (there were lots of places you could sneak out) because little bellies were hungry. We’ve set a goal to master it next year!

SATURDAY

We had an active start to Saturday! I pushed Finn in the Running Scared 5K and Finn participated in the Monster Mile race. This is our second time participating in this race and this year was fun because the gym I work for was the host location and a sponsor. Many of my co-workers and clients were out there. It was a beautiful morning!

Finn couldn’t decide on a Halloween costume this year and we were getting down to the wire. He told me to surprise him so I went with a police officer since he wrote that for what he wants to be when he grows up on his first day of kindergarten board. He loves it when I dress up with him so I wore orange scrubs and was a prisoner. He got such a kick out of it and adored his costume.

The race went well! Crazy how a 5K feels like a walk in the park when you’re a few weeks out from a marathon.

I may or may not have distracted Finn with talk of donuts as he was in his final stretch of the Monster Mile race. We popped over to Beyond Amazing Donuts where Finn had a chocolate sprinkle donut and I had the most divine sweet potato cinnamon roll. It was their regular cinnamon roll pastry but topped with fresh sweet potato, vanilla icing, caramel drizzle and pecans. Omg it was so good.

After a quick shower and outfit change at home, we ventured back out with freshly baked chocolate chip cookies in tow to watch my friend Lina’s son participate in a tennis tournament. She’s the one I went to visit in Pittsburgh so it was great to see her two weekends in a row. It was the boys first time meeting and they were fast friends.

Back at home Finn got his full police costume on and I couldn’t get over how cute he looked. This costume was a great Amazon find and super great quality for the price. It came with so many fun accessories.

We walked over to our swim club’s annual trunk or treat and made a quick lap before a storm rolled in.

Needless to say, all the creatures in the house were ready for bed on Saturday night!

SUNDAY

On Sunday morning Finn got back in his police costume one more time (I offered for him to wear his Charizard costume from last year but we are fully bought into police officer) for an outing to the Renaissance Festival with his former nanny and her nieces and nephews.

Finn was THRILLED to see everyone (he grew up with these kiddos!) and they packed an unbelievable amount of fun into their time there. He came home all smiles and big belly laughs. We sure are lucky that he’s loved by many.

I made a big pot of homemade spaghetti sauce on Sunday afternoon and we wrapped up our weekend with a family dinner that was full of knock knock jokes.

That’s a wrap. I hope you guy are also enjoying the fall season!

QUESTIONS

What are you favorite fall family traditions? 

What are your kiddos dressing up as this year? Do you like to dress up? 

Have you ever run a dress up race?