Pumpkin Patch

Mom, the boys, and I headed to the pumpkin patch today.  This weather has been unbelievable.  It got up to 80 degrees today.  The one bad thing was that those little black bugs were out and biting.  They were annoying.   I would love to say that we had a blast, but actually the boys were kind of crabby, not very good listeners, so we had to cut the day short.  It was fine, just not what I had hoped for.  Oh well.  They fell asleep pretty early and slept hard during the night though. ;)

There is always so much to do here.

   

 

 

 

 

 

I stopped on the way home and pulled over into a field because this row of trees was absolutely beautiful.  The boys thought I was crazy. 

Crack! and Color Dash 2012

Last night the older three boys were playing outside while Lucas and I were inside making dinner.  I was in the bathroom helping Lucas when I heard this noise like something was hitting the window.  I hurried into the kitchen to find….I’ll let you make a quick guess here of which one of the boys was involved with this….yep…Nolan was throwing (well, actually gently tossing) rocks at the window to get my attention.  Through the window I yelled at him to stop throwing rocks and to come inside to talk to me so I can hear him.  I turned around to go back and help Lucas in the bathroom and I heard a CRACK.  A rock was thrown (not gently tossed this time) at the window and cracked it.  He obviously didn’t like what I had told him.   I had one scared boy.  He got to hang out in his bedroom for most of the evening and he will be giving us some of his money to pay for it.  (which he told me he didn’t care about because he doesn’t get to spend or use his money for anything anyways.  Lord help me. )  Ugh…….walnut with a heart in it, walnut in a heart in it, walnut with a heart in it….(I was whispering this to myself many times throughout the night).  If you have no idea what this is about and want to find out –go here.  It will make you smile.

 

 

This morning Diane, Kristin, and Kristin’s friend Maggie, and I did the Color Dash here in town.  I’ve always been interested in the Color runs that I’ve seen or heard about and was excited when I found out they were doing this in town this year.  All proceeds from this Dash are going towards the production of a Feature Film shot in Southern Minnesota that will show the after-affects of suicide. Once the Film is complete the producers want to give it to every single High School and Jr High across the Country for free.  It was a fun time.  The weather was beautiful.  We all started out squeaky white clean. 

 

They had color stations with people throwing colored powder at you and many times people would also roll on the ground to get the color. 

 

At the end  we all threw up our bags of powder.  It was a fun experience, and always fun to do things like this with the ladies.

 

I Love the Fall

Kind of eerie I know, but every day to work and on our way home we drive by a cemetery.  This cemetery has the most beautiful trees in the fall, even the boys make comments about them.  One afternoon I pulled over and we drove through it so I could take some pictures.  The boys were fun, they helped me find some pretty ones. 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday Yaya!

We hope you had a great day!

Happy Birthday Grandma!

We got to spend a lot of time with Grandma on her birthday.  She was a trooper and watched both Jacob and Connor’s football, even though it was cold out.  Then Grandpa and Grandma came over to our house and Grandpa helped shampoo our carpets and Grandma got to play with the boys.  Then we went out to eat at the Red Lobster.

 

Mom and dad took the boys home so that Matt and I (and Connor bought his iPod touch) could look at TVs.  We made a new purchase and got a new TV, sound, and entertainment center. 

Story about the ride over there.  Nolan started asking questions about heaven.  Where is it?  What does it look like?  How do you get there?  Do you get back alive?  Does it hurt when you die?  Tons a great questions.  It was a neat conversation and Jacob and Connor chimed in with a few answers as well.  I think Connor at one point told Nolan that you get to heaven by believing in God and Nolan responded with “Like David did when he fought against Goliath?!”  Gotta love the minds of kids. 

Thanks for spending your day with us mom.  We love you! 

With Fall comes Football

Are you ready for some football?

So our family is a little sports crazy I know. but we we enjoy it so.  It’s something we can all share in and have fun with.  I love watching football and enjoy it even more so now that two of the boys are having fun with it.  Jacob is in a mini Husky camp on Saturday mornings for about an hour 1/2 and goes through different stations working on drills and skills.  He is loving it.   It’s been kind of chilly the past couple of mornings, but we make the trek out there.

 

 

Connor is enjoying playing football finally this year and it’s been fun watching his growth and improvement after each practice, scrimmage, and game.   Today he made some great tackles and he got a Pick 6 (which I just learned is what they call an interception and run for a touchdown).  This mama is still learning.

Partay

Connor had his family birthday party today.  This will probably be the last one.  It gets too hard, and he’s probably getting too old – though he’ll still have a friend party.  He wanted deep dish pizza and wings, so we ordered those.  I kind of liked the fact that I didn’t have to slave away in the kitchen, the side dishes I made were easy.  

 

 

The weather was pretty nice, a little windy, but warm so we hung out outside as much as we could.  The kids had a football throwing contest.

 

  

 

 

He got some great gifts, and quite a bit of money along with an iTunes card. Hmm….what ever would he use that for.  We finally gave in and told him that he could buy his iPod touch if he would like. He is paying for all of it though.  He’s been saving up.

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday Bud!  We love you!