Happy Mother’s Day

 

Happy Mother’s Day!

We all got a lot of relaxation in today.

I am so thankful for my little ones, and the hubby who made my Mother’s Day fantastic.  I enjoyed a wonderful breakfast out this morning, and played outside with my kids and my garden for the rest of the day.  I even had some visitors at the end of the day, which opened up our evening to a great meal, outside, in the perfect weather. 

I hope your day was as wonderful as mine.

To the Creek!

We have a creek that runs along the back of our property.  Recently, we have created a path to it.  The kids love the path.  They have yet to discover how much fun it is to play in the creek, but I know that will come over the years. 

Tonight, after work, instead of heading in straight for dinner, the warm evening air and sunshine kept us out.  We went to the creek!

On the way there, we had so much fun finding things

A pine cone, two “flowers” (AKA weeds, but to the innocence of a child, it’s a flower), a large leaf, and

A four leaf clover!  Corinne found it herself, amongst a LOT of clover.  She picked it out in less than 1 minute! 

I have it in between some wax paper in a book right now.  I’d like to frame it and hang it in her room.  What a token of luck! 

Good times in bloom

Life.

Puppet Show Time.

Row, Row, Row your boat time.

Alpaca open house time.

SHE walked up to them all, no problems. HE clung to me and only pet them while holding onto me.

Bloom time.

Family time.

Halloween Review

Dear blog,

I's been a while, again. I hope these next few posts hope you feel like I am keeping you up to date.

Halloween, 2008, Review

We had a great time on Halloween this year. It started early in the month, as my previous post talked about. We had pumpkins gallore between this trip to the patch, the field trip with Corinne's school to the patch, and some pumpkin gifts from friends. What do you do with so many pumpkins?

Painting them is a great option.

I have lots more painting pictures, but since I made the two of them strip down to minimal clothing...not a great idea to share on the WWW!

Trick or treating was a hit this year. We were visitors of a very friendly neighborhood, and boy did they go all out. Corinne got into it this year, wanting to run from house to house. She walked into any house when they opened their door too far! She also had NO fear of the scary houses. One was all decked out with smoke, lights, a moving ghost on a wire across the front yard, scary noises, etc. She had to walk through a tunnel with spooky lights to get to the house, and she went right up. No fear (ever). However, Nathan, he held my hand tight and didn't want to go anywhere near the noises. I truly feel that HE will protect HER one day.

The best part of trick or treating....checking out the loot on the return to the house!

A wonderful fall day!

Hello all!


Today, I got to spend the day sewing with my sister, and what a great day we had (thanks Grandma and Grandpa!). Although she didn't get much sewing in, I think she had a great time finishing up another project - staining a piece of furniture. And, I got to get a lot further on the quilt! All is done but the binding - final pictures to come soon!


How many of you have been enjoying fall? I don't know about you, but I think it feels so nice to have a crisp breeze in the air this time of year. Something about the coolness of the air, the leaves showing their colors, the angle of the sun, makes it so nice to be outside this time of year! My sister and I also got to get a great run in today, and it was a great treat to enjoy the air, the city, the leaves all on foot.

So, being that it's fall, I thought you'd enjoy the pictures of a trip to the pumpkin patch.

Searching for the perfect pumpkin.

Found!

(Yes, she picked out that outfit herself! I could not get her to change it...that girl has her own sense of style)

Hmmm...

This is it!

Attempt to get a group picture #1.

Attempt to get a group picture #2.

More Summer Fun

I have yet to share some of the great stories and related photos from our trip to PA in early July. Below is a handful of pictures from that whirlwind trip!

We went to Hershey Park, PA, on July 4. What fun. The kids, obviously, were looking forward to a fun time!

Yeah! We are finally here! Let's have some FUN!

Waiting in anticipation for really fun rides. (Holding balloons, of course.)

And enjoying the rides when they got on. Lots of enjoyment. Corinne in the middle, Elissa to the right, and Ryan to the left. They all loved it. Look at Ryan! Can't you just eat up that smile?

We also took a train ride on a real steam engine train! I knew this would be a winner. We have a few train lovers in this house!

Isn't he a big boy, mounting that train stair all by himself?

This was before the train took off. That little hesitant smile should give away how much "fun" we had on that train ride. It started out GREAT. But, we had a meltdown in the middle. Not just a small meltdown, no, the big, all out, I am mad and going to let everyone on this train know it and too bad you are all stuck on this train with me. With nowhere to go. And no no way to make me happy. Nada.

Luckily, in the middle of the train ride, there was a place called Cherry Crest Farm. What a lifesaver! And, what a fun place to go! They had live animals, two huge jumping pillows, one for adults and a smaller one for kids. I have no pictures of that because, well, I was just having too much FUN jumping on that thing. Talk about AIR. They also had a large corn maize, a farm tour, games, and other fun, outdoor, things to do. And slides built into a hill that were the length of a snow tube ride. Again, no pictures. Too much fun going down those on a burlap sack! Corinne said this was the best part of the whole trip. She went down the slide, by herself, countless times!

We all held live, day old baby chicks! I wish I had a camera of Ryan's little GRAB of the chick. He picked one up like it was a baseball. Poor guy.

Yes, a good time was had by all.

A trying day

Ahh, the days of summer.

Don't you just wish that you could live these again, as a child?

That's one of the big pluses about being a mom. I get to re-live a lot of things, like summer.

Seriously, do you think she needs those arm floaties? And yes, our dog thinks the pool is her personal water bowl.

I've not posted a lot these past few weeks. We've been busy. And, my kids have given me a strong dose of patient-testing, especially with the young one cutting 4 eye teeth at the same time. Today I tried to step back and enjoy summer through their eyes. I had some smiles today, and am sharing them with you. This was the best part of my day today (other than naptime).

On the crafting side of things, it's been as slow as my posts this month. I have one work in progress going, and a finished project awaiting a photo-shoot to share. With someone always hanging on my leg, or screaming when I get out of site (this separation anxiety thing is really starting to wear on me), I couldn't get a moment to take the photo today!