Syracuse Pumpkin Walk

Addison thought these pumkins were funny.


Breeley standing next to her pumkin.

Bree wanted her picture taken with the Kung Fu Panda pumpkins.


After EIGHT YEARS we finally got smart. We went to the pumkin walk BEFORE dark. It was lovely. It was warm, there was no line, we didn't feel rushed, we could stop for pictures. It was lovely. Breeley's pumkin originally had a witches hat on it. She was sad that it didn't make it to the pumkin walk with her pumkin. But she got over it soon enough.
We love to go to this pumkin walk and even though we will no longer have Kiddie Kollege pumkins, I am sure it is a tradition we will continue.

Breeley's trip to the Dairy Farm

I wish you could see all the flies that were on the food. All the dark on the corn was solid flies.

It was gross. Flies were everywhere near the baby cows.

Bree wanted her picture by the baby cows.

LOVE THAT GIRL!

She tried hard to be brave enough to feed the cows a carrot.

She tried really hard.

Breeley's preschool had a field trip to Hamblin Dairy Farms. It was a lot of fun. She enjoyed looking at the cows and was very cautious of not getting dirty. It is always so fun to go on this field trip.

Black Island Farms

Ready for the adventure.
Abell brought his best bud Eric.

Breeley was so excited to pick out her own pumpkin.

Hagen and Addison were excited to go on the hayride.

Breeley brought her baby. She said her baby had fun and stayed warm.

Hagen's pumpkin

Addison's pumpkin

Abell's pumpkin

Bree's pumpkin was so big she could barely hold it on her lap.

At the beginning of October we went to Black Island Farms for FHE. It was super fun. We first went on a hayride to pick out a pumkin. The kids had fun searching far and wide for their perfect pumpkin. After the hayride we played on the slides then we entered the corn maze. The maze was fun but very very long. We entered without a map and wandered around for what seemed like an eternity until Breeley could stand it no longer. And truthfully I had had more than enough of it. We ran into some of the worlds finest corn cops, and they guided us out of the crazy maze. The boys all had a blast and I am sure we will return next year.

We are ready!

Getting the H1N1 seems inevitable.

I just want it to know I will try my best to kill it before it gets us.
My kids were pretty excited to have their own bottles to take to school.

Red and White

Addison and Hagen are celebrating Red Ribbon Week.
Today is Crazy Hair Day!

The carpool! (minus the kindergartner)

All boys.

All crazy.

Hagen had been asking all week for me to go to the store and buy red and white hair color for crazy hair day. Red and white are his Strikers team colors, so he wanted to get those colors so he could also use it to color his hair for some of his indoor soccer games.

Finally last night at about 7:30, I could put if off no longer. Hagen and I ran to Wally world to buy some hair color. When we found the hair color section of the halloweeen costumes they had the white, but no red.

Hagen was pretty sad.

We looked around for a stray bottle somewhere and didn't find one. We asked a Wally man and he said they might have some in a different location.

We looked.

We found.

Hagen said "I can't even describe the feelings I had when I saw that red can. I am so happy!"

I am so glad we found it. This morning he and Addison were so excited to go to school!

Living with Boys

As I laid in bed last night, I looked up at the ceiling fan and knew.

I knew that I would be safe.

Mr. Lego Man was watching over me.

Addison

Addison has been a little sick. Not really sick, but sick enough that I didn't want to send him to school with a slightly weakened immune system. (Who knows what he might catch) Anyway, last night while I went to young women's this is what I came home to. Addison laying in bed watching tv, with a wet washcloth on his forehead and the throw up bucket next to him. Adam was taking good care of him.

Me: Oh Addi, are you not feeling good? (Thinking he has become more sick while I was gone.)
Addi: Not really. (Not taking his eyes off the tv.)
Me: I am so sorry. (With really sympathetic eyes and my head slightly tilted.)
Addi: I just don't know how this is suppose to make me feel better. (points to wet washcloth on his forehead.) (Still not taking his eyes off the tv.)

I just laughed and took it off. Explained to him that sometimes it helps. It obviously wasn't helping him this time.

Crashing the hunting trip

Over fall break Adam took the two older boys hunting. They left on Thursday afternoon. The next day, I thought... well we can either sit around the house and play games together, or we can sit around the trailer and play games together. I asked Addison and Breeley if they wanted to stay home for the weekend or go camping for the weekend? They both yelled for camping. So I started packing and literally throwing things in the car so we could leave as soon as possible. I was able to get ahold of my dad on his truck phone and tell him we were on our way up. But he kept it a secret from Adam and the boys so they could be surprised. It was a great weekend. I am so glad that we went up there. I enjoyed the time with my family and I was glad I could have hot chocolate and warm food ready for the boys when they got back from their hunting hikes.

Everyone was happy with the way the weekend turned out.
We drove through a river!

For kinda a long time!

We played games while the older boys were hunting.

We also made necklaces and bracelets.

We took rides on papa's four wheeler.

Breeley got lots of extra rides.

We played with sticks.

We played with hats.

We took turns shooting guns.

Everyone took a turn pulling the trigger.

It was fun.

Some of us are better at it than others.

(Not one of my shots hit the can. Darn it!)

I love my family!

He's got school spirit... How 'bout you???

This week at WPJH is spirit week. Abell has had so much fun with it. He has dressed like a twin with his best friend Eric, worn mismatched shoes, dressed like a super hero, and today was 70's day. He made a late night call to Katie to see if she still had some of their halloween costume supplies still around, and she saved the day! He was super excited to wear the fro wig to school. Abell is loving Jr. high!