Play date at Warriors

Still catching up on October! a couple weeks ago, my friend Shannon set up for the Mom's Club kids to have a fun play date at Warriors State Park with one of the rangers! He talked to the kids about wildlife and took them on a fun little hike! Then he spent the rest of the time showing the kids how to roll down hills. Fun afternoon! Love living in such an outdoor friendly region!

Hike with the Thomsens

The weather is finally cooling down and the leaves are changing! We took a little hike with our friends, the Thomsens, one afternoon. After the kids got used to actually having to walk a ways, we all had fun! Ha! Marshall still doesnt seem quite ready to hike on his own quite yet so he spent most of the time on our backs or shoulders. We hiked along the top ridge at Bays to the radio towers. I think the kids thought the towers was the most exciting part! And having lunch together afterwards, hehe. So fun to go on an adventure with friends! 

Family Pics 2016

Back in October my good friend Heather was able to snap a few family pictures for us. I totally loved the venue we picked! I had no idea that the grounds at Allendale Mansion were so gorgeous! Helps to have a photographer with such a wonderful eye, as well. It was semi-stressful, as pictures with kids always are, but I'm so glad Heather was able to capture some great shots! Thank you thank you Heather!!

And finally, a few outtakes, lol.. Trying to get those gosh darn kids to smile was rough! 

Carving pumpkins

I ended up grabbing another pumpkin a few days after we went to the patch just from the grocery store so we could have two to carve. Marshall picked to have a cat and ivy picked a witch on a broom. Sam did the dirty work beforehand, then he carved the witch and I did the cat. I think they turned out pretty good! Kids loved the whole event.

Pumpkin Barn

A couple Saturdays ago, we drove down to a little pumpkin patch just south of Johnson City called the Pumpkin Barn. This place was SO perfect for finding the perfect pumpkin in October. First of all, they had a gigantic barn FULL of pumpkins of all shapes and sizes. I didn't know that many different types of gourds existed! It was quite beautiful, actually. Kids thought it was SO cool. They also had a big tractor and a carriage that the kids liked climbing on. Then behind the barn, they had a huge pumpkin patch that you could take a wagon out and clip your own pumpkins from the vine. So we wagoned the kids out to the field and looked around until we found one we liked!

Our spoils from the day! I couldn't help myself and had to get some of their little white pumpkins they had! We painted our white ones and will carve our big one on another day.

Our pumpkin painting sort of carried over to plate painting. Complete with sunset mural as well as Frankenstien and jack-o-lanter variations and Van Gogh Halloween moon mural. Hehe: