The Apple Farm.... Or Not.

So I was at work one day and everybody was talking about the Apple Farm. It was supposed to be SO MUCH FUN; apple picking, hay rides, free apple cider, etc. So, on Jason's day off, we got the kids all ready (red shirts for apples... cheesy, I know but I just can't help it!) WE found the address and were on our way. So we found it and were like "hmmm, is this it??" There was a steel building with one little thing of apples for sale in the front. It had a very small apple "orchard" with a few dozen trees. And there was a girl working in the small gift shop. Totally lame. THey had some pumpkins scattered in with some of the apple trees. So, when we discovered that some people are very easily entertained... but not us, we decided to go to wheeler farm instead so that Christian wouldn't be disappointed. Thank goodness we did that. It was set up so cute with scarecrows and stuff. Plus we got to see the baby pigs and get chased by geese. Next time we are definitely skipping the apple farm and going somewhere more trustworthy! Oh, and the red shirts looked dang cute!

Carving Cheap Pumpkins:

We had everybody over to our house to carve pumpkins. It was so fun. The kids crack me up when they are cleaning out the goop. Christian liked it, but it freaked Jace out a bit. I found the coolest thing for Christian. It was long light brite things that he could hammer into the pumpkin. It was perfect because of his current obsession with tools. Although, next year I will but 2 of those to share. Not much else to explain. I did make some darn yummy pumpkin seeds afterwards. Didn't Owen do a great job on his black widow?

The Crying... I mean, Pumpkin Patch.

The pumpkin patch is one of our favorite thing every year. So I planed it all out, with coordinating shirts for the kids, and psyched christian all up. So, we got there and it was extremely busy. It took us over a half hour to get a wheelbarrow, and that is because I stalked someone and followed them to their car. So anyway. I put Owen in the wheelbarrow with Christian and asked C to hold him. He totally refused and was being a brat... What? A brat. I know. Hard to believe. Anyway, I told him that if he wasn't going to be a good boy that he would have to get out of the wheelbarrow. So he kept letting Owen fall, so I took him out and he freaked. WE told him if he wouldn't stop crying, we would leave and not get any pumpkins. Needless to say, I carried him out of the pumpkin patch kicking and screaming because we wouldn't buy him a pumpkin. So here are some pictures that make my kids look better behaved than they actually are. (Owen was an angel- thank goodness).
But one good thing... we went and got pumpkins at Macey's for WAY WAY cheaper a couple of days later. So I guess Christian's little temper tantrum saved us about ten bucks.

Slacker!

Okay Okay... I really didn't realize it had been 2 months. Sorry Mom.
I was going to do another update, but so much has happened, I think I will do a bunch of separate posts. Hopefully, I can get caught up in a couple of days (yeah right).
So The first thing I want to share is that Christian (and Owen) went bowling for the first time. The best part about that was we all had matching bowling shoes. We were totally snazzy. Christian got bored pretty fast, but Jason and I had fun. I found out that Jason is a closet bowler. I just kinda waddle up there and toss the ball, he actually has a technique. Hmmmm... I wonder what else I don't know about him?