Chuckin' chickens and outhouse golf

 We are always trying to find new things going on in the valley that we have never been to.  So was the case with the Cowboy Country Festival in Goodyear.  This is only its second year and so it was really small, but the great part was it wasn't crowded, the people running it were really nice and the kids had fun.  The highlight of the day was that they got to ride the horses.  They have only ever rode ponies in a circle and never around an arena, they LOVED it!

 After the horse ride they tried to knock down cans with mini marshmallow shooters.  Every time they would shoot a marshmallow out, Hudson would start laughing hysterically.  It was the funniest thing and it had us all laughing.

 Then they ran their energy out in the small maze chasing each other and racing through it...

 Hudson just wanted to sit and play with the straw and pull it out of the bales piece by piece and then throw it and grab a new piece.

 He would crawl over to a bale and say "Ball!!!" and point at the pumpkins. Then stand up and start pushing the small pumpkins off the edge and watching to see if they would bounce. "Oh Ball!!!" he kept saying over and over pointing at them.  We finally had to put him by some big ones that he couldn't move because I was worried he was going to bust some of the small ones and then we would have to buy smashed pumpkins.  Ball is his favorite word right now.

 Hunter located a beauty of a pumpkin that we all agreed had to come home with us.

 After pumpkin picking we headed over to play some games.  We played musical saddles....

 Then we "chucked chickens" into hula hoops.  It was great that the rubber chickens made noises when you tossed them and then when they hit the ground.

 How about a round of "redneck horseshoes" using toilet seats.  Deke was all about this game.  It was actually pretty challenging.

 We ended off with some outhouse golf trying to land our ball into the toilet.  Ave thought this was hilarious and kept trying and trying until she got it.

 We loaded up our pumpkin and headed over to grandma and grandpa burch's for dinner.  It was fun to try something different and I have to hand it to this little festival they had some creative ideas.  Just so nice to be able to be outside doing stuff as a family.  So glad fall is here.