Fall Fish Fry

One of my favorite fall traditions is Aunt Peggy's fall fish fry.  This year Justin didn't get to go because he had to work...so that was a huge bummer.  But it was very fun, none the less.

They had rigged up a hay wagon to pull behind the lawn mower!  The kids thought it was a blast and Aunt Peggy told them they could throw the straw.

The kids also did a scavenger hunt where they found a treasure!

Here they are dancing in the sugar shack

Pumpkin Patch

Trista and I like to do several different things with the kids every fall, one of which is go to a pumpkin patch.  Last year we went to Stoney Creek and Tuttles.  This year we just went to Stoney Creek (although we vowed not to buy pumpkins there because they were so expensive last year.)  This is the only picture I got that day because it was a very bad day for me and I wasn't in the picture taking mood.  That morning (a Wednesday) I woke up and was stretching in bed and something popped in my neck.  The pain was terrible when I'd try to hold my head up so for about 20 minutes I just laid in bed with my head in my hands moaning.  I almost had Justin stay home from work that day because I really thought I wasn't going to be able to pick my head up.  My arms and legs were all tingly...it was nuts!  But after I calmed down a little I found that if I held my head tilted to the right, the pain was at least bearable.  Of course, that was one of those days for Justin where he couldn't miss work so I just had to suck it up.  Ty had his 6 year check up that morning (of course) and I didn't want to miss it since he was on break from school that week.  So I just toughed it out and took him to his appointment.  I'm happy to report that he is a very healthy little dude, aside from having humongous tonsils that may need to be taken out eventually.  After we got home from the doctor's office, we had about an hour before we needed to leave to meet Trista at the pumpkin patch.  The boys wanted to go play in Cooper's yard (the new neighbor boy) while we waited (even though he wasn't home) and I told them that was fine.  Stupid move on my part.  I should've known better but I was so miserable that day and had found a warm sunny spot to sit in the yard and had my head positioned just right so it wasn't killing me for the first time all day, and I just wanted to sit there for a little bit and be comfortable.  Big mistake!  When time to leave rolled around, I hollered for the boys to come home and lo and behold when they came back they were both COVERED in MUD!!  And I don't mean they were a little dirty....I mean covered in thick gooey sticky MUD...it was dripping off them!  That was one of those times for me that all mom's have where you really think you are losing your mind.  So I had a little nervous breakdown...but once I collected myself and got the boys changed...off we went to the pumpkin patch....where we didn't even look at pumpkins :)

Planes

Justin is gone this weekend at a musky school, Which his work is providing for him as a stress reliever. They're awesome!  Elisha was at the fire station on , Trista and I were bored and decided to take the kids to monkey Joe's and to the movies to see "Planes."  Ty did a great job and absolutely loved the movie!  Dallas and Ellie got a little bored about halfway through and spent the second half of the movie walking up and down the aisles and talking to each other. Needless to say Trista and I were ready to go about three quarters of the way through the movie. But overall it was a great time!

Old Engine Show

Last year we missed Conner Prairie's old engine show. Justin's dad gave him one of his old engines for his birthday and now Justin has one of his own to enter in the show. The boys had a really good time shelling and grinding corn. They also had a curiosity fair going on at Conner Prairie so the boys got to see some cool things there.  We walked around the Conner Prairie exhibits and checked out how things worked in the old times. Ty Dallas and I all got to milk the cow for the first time too!

Ty lost his fourth tooth that weekend as well. He stood up to show me how loose it was and then sat back down  a few minutes later he had it in his hand!   The tooth fairy brought him four quarters this time for his fourth lost tooth. 

Birthdays

Princess Ellie turns 3

Ada is 10

 

Apple Picking

We absolutely LOVE where we live.  One of the many advantages to our location is that Tuttle's orchard is just down the road!  So Dallas and I took advantage of a beautiful fall Wednesday morning to go pick some apples.

So far I have made a big batch of homemade applesauce, which seemed to be a hit.  Apple butter is up next.

David and Joliaph

Here are a few Bible stories the boys told me they learned at their preschool. Ty told me that he learned about Noah and the flood and also Joneph. I chuckled and asked him what happened to Joneph, did he get swallowed by a whale?  He looked at me like I was crazy and said, "No."  I said did he have a lot of brothers who threw them in a hole?  Again he looked at me like I was crazy and said, " No, Mom. I don't remember what happened to him."  I thought that was a fitting response since I don't know what happened to him either. Then it was Dallas's turn to tell me a Bible story. His was about David and Joliaph. According to Dallas in that story David killed Joliaph with a stone. That's a good start....