Pumpkin Patch

While we were up in Delaware, we went to the coolest pumpkin patch just over the Pennsylvania state line called Linvilla Orchards. Tractors, pumpkins, and doughnuts...oh my!

Moments later, a duck would mistake Nielson's pudgy little fingers for his afternoon snack. Not a pretty sight.

This is what happens when Mommy leaves the children in Daddy's care while she ducks into the store. Candied apples? Are you kidding me???!?

Nielson literally swimming through the mulch at the playground. When he wasn't channeling his inner Michael Phelps, he was eating said mulch.

Here's proof.

Go Grandmom Judy!

Weekend in Delaware

We were finally able to get up to Delaware for a weekend! Ellie has only been begging to go for eight months or so. It was Doug's 20th high school reunion on Saturday night so we drove up after the Irvington Farmer's Market and got there in time to drop off the kids at Grandmom and PopPop's and head straight to the reunion. In our haste, I forgot the camera but it was a great night. Doug was able to see almost all of his friends from high school and it was great for me to be able to put faces to names! His school is amazing...looks like a college campus. We took the kids back the next day so they could see where Daddy went to school. I DID remember my camera this time!

This was originally a garage...

for this place! This is the building where the reunion was held. There is a center courtyard with a huge stained glass ceiling. It was beautiful.

Backyard Fun

Nielson loves to ride in the wagon...

usually!

Ellie wearing her "spirit day" t-shirt

Where good toys go to die...our sandbox

Hudson having a heart to heart with Rogue.

Wings and Wheels

or "Ings and Nails" as Hudson likes to call it. It's an air/antique car show they have here at the local airport. As you can see, the big hit of the day was the inflatable slide, followed by the flying lawnmower (yes, it's real) and the extensive display of John Deere tractors (no Hudson, you may not sit on those tractors...this isn't Lowe's.) Doug was partial to the T&L Barbeque lunch and Nielson liked the funnel cakes. Ellie was happy to have her best friend, Olivia there. They had their horseback riding lesson together that morning. It was a beautiful day!

Reasons why it was an (almost) perfect evening

Everyone liked the dinner I made.

Dinner included fresh avocado and barbeque chicken.

My kitchen didn't look like World War III afterwards.

We played with trains and nobody fought.

We had a raging dance party and nobody fought.

Nielson discovered he can turn around in circles and thought that was so funny.

We played grocery store and nobody fought.

Ellie and Hudson put socks on and ice skated on the hardwood floor as Ellie attempted to teach Huddy how to point his toes. Priceless.

We raced cars on the hardwood floor and nobody fought.

Al three children had a bath, brushed their teeth, read stories and went to bed. Wait..except for Hudson. He's my holdout on the couch.

No tv, no computer games. Just playing. For hours.

I am so lucky.

Why wasn't my evening perfect? Doug's not here:(

You snooze, you lose

Too bad boys, the best of the best has been taken off the market this week. Try picking up the pieces of your shattered lives and move on.

I am so happy for you, Amy!

What Heaven Looks Like....

if you're a John Deere-obsessed two year old! Hudson is having a hard time adjusting to life without Ellie during the day, so the birthday fairy and Santa got together and decided to come early this year. He truly is in John Deere Heaven (as long as the battery holds out!)