Autumn Acres

Saturday was Fall Fun Day sponsored by our church. The church paid for our admission to Autumn Acres and a lot of fun was had by all! I won't bother captioning for each picture (yes, I know, I took a lot. And I'm not even posting all of them).
Ephraim

Grandpa & Ephraim

Emmet

Daddy & Eliza

Mommy & Eliza

The slide was probably the favorite part for the boys.

Grandpa & Ephraim

Emmet

Ephraim at the slingshot with apples.

Barrel rolling--not for just anyone.

Ephraim, Emmet, Grandpa, Eden & Eliza

Emmet at the "slingshotter".

Ephraim at the corn cannon.

Grandpa and Eden

Corn pile!

Eliza posing in the sheep's head.

Let's go to the hay bale maze!

Daddy & Eliza

Eprhaim, Crazy Grandpa and Emmet

Uh, can you get us out of here!

On the hay bale maze!

Emmet

Ephraim

Eliza and Eden

What a great time and the weather was perfect!

Sundays!

After church on Sunday, and after quiet time/nap time, we went outside. The weather was beautiful and we had a chance to get outside and enjoy it. We took a hay rack ride with the kids. Below is a view of the cows in the pasture.

Our driver on the Cub tractor:

Eliza being silly on the ride.


A touching moment between sisters.

Mommy & Eden.

Emmet (who can't seem to lose that chocolate ring around his mouth).

Ephraim and Eliza taking it all in.

Ephraim

Emmet

Eden (saying "cheese").

Eden again.

No, this is not a bicycle built for two!

Are we crazy or normal?

Whew! It seems like we've had a lot of instances of "Are we crazy or normal" just in the last week!

I think it all started on Sunday when Emmet wouldn't get dressed for church (this is pretty normal). He ends up being the last one and I have to dress him. So, that's what I did . . . I put his church clothes on him. Two hours later, halfway through church, I notice that his pants are a little bulky and that's when I notice that I had put his church pants ON OVER HIS PAJAMAS! WAS I NOT THINKING?

Then on another day last week, Ephraim is getting undressed from school and says, "Hmmm, guess I had two pairs of underwear on today." HE DIDN'T LEARN THAT AT HOME! ? !

Took all four kids to Target by myself last Saturday morning. Come home and find out that the bathroom sink faucet had been running the entire time. Guess I better add that to my checklist of things to check before leaving the house, AS IF I NEED TO ADD TO THAT LIST.

Tuesday, I decided that Emmet need to go to the doctor for an infected Molluscum and I get a call back from them at 3pm that we can get in as soon as we can get there. Well, that leaves no time to change clothes or clean up. I scooped everyone up and we left for the doctor. We totally showed up AS IS. Eden was wearing boy shoes and her shirt looked like we'd used it as a kleenex all day (WHICH IS TRUE). Eliza's hair was an absolute disarray and she had some crusty food it in. AND THEN THERE'S EMMET. STILL IN HIS PAJAMAS AT 3PM. He had breakfast and lunch remants on his cheeks. Ephraim was dirty from school and stickers all over his t-shirt. AND I DIDN'T LOOK MUCH BETTER THAN ALL OF THE KIDS COMBINED.

The other night Emmet comes out of their room shortly after going to bed and mumbles something about pajamas. I decide to investigate and there stands Eliza, in her crib, WAIVING HER DIAPER AROUND AS IF TO SAY "NA, NA, NA, BOO BOO". Yes, she completely undressed herself.

We may not be perfect but our kids are loved and they know it. We may not always be clean but we have a lot of fun getting dirty. We may do some crazy things but we make a lot of memories.

Everybody loves a parade!

It was Frontier Days last Saturday and a small parade went through town with plenty of CANDY-THROWING!

The boys were armed with their ice cream buckets to stash their candy.

The girls preferred to watch in the wagon. That was fine with me since I had brought the kids to the parade by myself. I wasn't sure if I would regret that or not, but everyone did well.

And the inflatables were free!!!!!!

Crazy, Crazy!

Eden was being silly on the swing. And then Eliza joined in. Lucky for me, I had the camera outside with me.

(If you have a keen eye, you may notice that there is a little boy in the background "taking care of business".)

Eliza with her kitty.

Eden showing off her war wound. Can you see the bite bruise on her upper arm. Yes, that is a mark from Eliza! I thought Eliza was done with that habit but it has occurred twice in the last week!