Apple Picking

We took the apple kids picking this past weekend. We were having incredibly warm weather for October and picked apples with shorts on, something about that just felt off. The kids had a great time!

Island Lake State Park

The sun was shinning and it wasn't too cold out, so we took the boys up to Island Lake State Park to do a little hiking.  The boys had a lot of funning running and throwing stones into the water.  They can't wait for some warmer weather so we can stay out longer.
 

Pumpkin Painting

We had The Scotts and {some of} The Mongomerys over to paint pumpkins on Saturday.  The kids, and adults had a great time. 

What's Our Favorite Place to Visit....

The zoo of course!! It's even more special when we can go with Papa, Papamom and The Scotts.

Update

Updates:

The McFarland's have had a busy few weeks...here's what's going on....

Owen: The little stinker is about a week away from his second birthday. He is such the opposite of Aiden at this age. He's a curious little monkey that gets into things and insists on doing things on his own. Last week I took him for a hair cut and he sure does look like a big kid now. He has no fear when it comes to climbing the tallest slide at the playground and going down all by himself. He LOVES to be outside and swing or play in the dirt. His favorite thing in the world would have to be a ball, and throwing anything he can get his hands on. When Aiden was his age I would ask him, "Whose baby are you?" Aiden would promptly reply "Mommy's". I've started asking Owen the same question, his reply has been...."I a big boy"....

Aiden: He has been enjoying soccer, he has practice every Monday and games on Saturdays. Somehow he ended up on an all girl team but that hasn't bothered him a bit. We've been working on being a bit more aggressive and trying to get the ball, it's such the opposite of Aiden's timid personality so it's been a bit tough. Aiden is a whiz with my IPhone and has more apps on it than I do. He can even search through the app store and find which ones are free so he can download them. Gary's Grandma gave him $5 for Easter recently and he asked me to put in the bank so he could buy more apps.

Gary: He's had a rough few weeks and been down for the count with colitis. He has more tests today, so hopefully we get him well and back to his old self. He's even managed to rub in the fact he's lost 25 lbs in the last few weeks. Not the way he'd want to do it but he still rubs it in.

Lindsey: All I can say is aggghhhhh. I'm ready for the craziness of the last few weeks to slow down a bit. This single parenting I've been doing since Gary has been sick stinks...so far these last few weeks I've dealt with two clogged toilets (thanks Aiden), and cutting the lawn only to have the front wheel fall off and then run it over...

Pumpkin Carving

Aiden has been excited about carving pumpkins so we decided to carve ours Sunday night. Hopefully they do not rot before Halloween.

Daddy and the boys getting serious about their pumpkins


Aiden was excited he got to use a kinfe....I wasn't so excited!


Owen sat and watched most of the time with his little pumpkin


Everyone working away


Aiden actually liked cleaning the "guts" out, which really surprised me.


Mommy being silly!


Our finished projects. Gary did the haunted house and the bat and Aiden and I did the ghost. You can't see it but Aiden colored all over the side of his pumpkin and helped me trace the design on our pumpkin.

Halloween Fun.....now with pictures!

What a great night for family and friends. A bunch of us got together at Mom and Dad's for some pizza and drinks then headed out for a haunted hayride. ROAR!! The hayride was a little lame and not so haunted but it made for some great laughs. Afterward we headed back to the house for a big bon fire! Thanks for such a great night everyone!!!

Cheers!!


Alicia


The girls...


The girls and their moms...


Waiting in line for the hayride


Two tired boys!

Our beautiful bon fire....look at those colors