Cornbellies

While Daddy was hunting in October the rest of us had a chance to have a very fun outing. Aunt Annie and Uncle Jason took a weekend trip down to Salt Lake and we met up with them (and Uncle Jason's sister Anna and her family) at Thanksgiving Point's cornmaze, Cornbellies.

Cornbellies was one of the funnest places I have ever been to with my kids. There were a ton of things to play with and do as well as the cornmaze.
The kids rode bikes, and ran on this spiderweb....

and Aunt Annie rode the mechanical bull.

While I was taking this picture and watching Annie's stupendous ride the kids had been playing in a mini corn maze. I saw Levi go in and never saw him come out. I thought that I had been watching him closely, but apparently not. He escaped at some point and when we went to move on I couldn't find him. I got the whole crew searching for him as I went running back to the bikes and all over the area where we had been. Several people saw me running back and forth and asked what color shirt and how old and started helping us search. He had been gone for probably a good 3 or 4 minutes, which to a Mom seems like an eternity as you know that every second you can't find your child could be that much farther that someone is taking off with them. Finally Anna called for me that she had found him. He was about 100 feet away in the complete opposite direction that I had thought he would have went. Ironically as Anna and Jason were searching Anna heard a lady behind her say, "I need a mama!" When she turned around there was a nice lady with Levi in tow searching for his Mom. Relief and shame/embarrassment swarmed over me as I took my sweet little Levi-man in my arms. I hadn't even made it 20 minutes before loosing a kid in this crowded place. (That's right, I rock!) From then on I assigned Ellen to be Levi's buddy and we all kept a little bit more diligent watch on the children, especially mine.

After we found Levi we headed to the big ball volleyball over hay bails,

and climbing on hay bail pyramids.

Eve was sporting this scene for most of the time. The only difference was if she was being packed by Jason or Annie.

Finally, we headed into the corn maze. Since we had the child loosing experience in a place that wasn't meant to loose your child we decided to buddy up the kids in the maze. Ellen and Trevor were great buddies and held hands during pretty much the whole thing.

My kids were very excited to be doing the maze. They especially liked the bridges.

We had fun pretending to be scarecrows...

this was the best that Ellen and Trevor could do for scary faces.

After about 20 minutes my kids started to whine, a lot, and got very cold so we quickly found our way out and bundled up to head on out for more fun.

We went on a tractor-pulled train ride and ate popcorn...and got tuckered out.

The kids favorite part I didn't even get a picture of, but they loved the jumping pillows. The coolest looking things ever and they were a ton of fun. They had an air pillow for kids of all sizes and they played there for at least 20 minutes. We ended the night there, very late, and headed home.

A couple of days later we were able to head in to Lehi to Anna's house for family dinner. It was more good time for the adults to chat and the cousins to play.

We also had time to let the little girl cousins get a little more acquainted.

Eve was getting close to crawling and was trying really hard to get over to Kat to play with her. She loved Kat's binky and wanted to touch her face.

Kat thought that all of the moving Eve could do was pretty cool. Annie and I are still determined to make these girls good friends.

We had so much fun getting to see our family and law-laws and take the opportunity to have a little fun and discover new things about the area we are now living in. Something we would love to repeat next year.