Pumpkin Pickin'

Today we went to the same pumpkin place we went last year. Here's some pictures!

Pickin' out pumpkins!

Being silly!

Posing for pictures

Maddy and Jaycob! Abygail wouldn't sit with them.

Long Walk to the Beach

Daddy took the day of of work today and we decided to go out and check out this beach that we've heard so much about! Little did we know it was a mile and a half trek down to it! Good thing we threw the good stroller in back just in case!

This section of the trail you see was pretty uneventful, but sections of it we had to pick up the stroller over the tree roots or 'creek's as Jaycob called them!

I don't have any pictures down by the beach because it was just too bright down there, non of my pictures showed up!

Gardens

Took all four kids to the Gardens today! The weather was more then beautiful for a walk in the gardens!

We had never been in the bathrooms here before and I couldn't believe how much work was put into the walls. ALL of the walls were tiled like this....


Aby insisted on standing under this bark painting. And I thought this one little tree standing in the sunlight was really cool!

And kinda like the bottles we did last year, we did a craft that will be displayed later in the year. This time it was decorating sticks that they will, I think, turn into a snake. Jaycob and Abygail painting their sticks. Then Older Brother's and Older Sister's sticks. And the two bottom ones are Jaycob's and Abygail's!!

Gardens

These pictures were requested, but I'll finish this post later...

What Are These Plants?

I'm no green thumb... SO please tell me what kind of plants these are and what I should be doing with them! I just know this first one grows back like a weed! I pulled them all up last fall and within two weeks they were back with flowers and all!!


This one I didn't pull up last fall. But come this spring it has all kinds of new growth coming in... The one on the other side of the bed is 3 times bigger!


Just tell me what they are and what I should be doing with them! Please? Anyone?

Thanksgiving Day

This year we went to Uncle D and Aunt T's for Turkey Day! All the family was there and we had a blast just enjoying the day! It ended up being quite warm out at a balmy 67 - 70 degrees most the day :-0

While we waited for dinner to cook we all headed outside to play! Abygail loved the slide! I really wish we had the place for a swing set.

There were only a few trees in the very nice yard and it just happened to have dropped most of its leaves recently! Perfect for leaf piles and such! So first all the kids gathered a decent amount of leaves with just their hands.

Then we had Uncle D scare up a few rakes for us and the little pile soon turned into a very large pile!

Where's Older Sister?? She would borrow down into the pile of leaves and have all the little ones (Jaycob, Cousin L, and Abygail) cover her!

And just when they would give up hope that she would ever come out she would pop up like a jack in the box. All would laugh and be crazy and it would start all over again!

After so much of this game the leaves became so spread out and crunched up that they were useless to really hide in. So they just started throwing them at each other instead!

No more pictures Mom!! I just wanna hang out!

Fall Leaves Fall

Today we made fall trees or at least tried to! All Jaycob wanted to do is make the leaves "fall Mama". So it really doesn't look like there are any in his tree. But we tried! I did draw the tree trunk, but he drew all the grass! And you see the long black line on the right? With the one little leaf on top? That's his tree!! He drew that all by himself! He was so proud of his tree that he asked me to take a picture of it!!

And of course Abygail then wanted her picture taken too!! Look at that proud smile on her face!!