only one month later......

this whole blogging thing is harder to keep up with than i thought! exactly one month later.......i am finally posting again.  whoops.

it's been a crazy-busy month full of apple picking, corn mazes, pumpkin patches, trick or treating, and birthday parties.  oh-so-many birthday parties.  the last 3 weekends have been packed full of birthday parties, saturdays...and sundays.  we are birthday'd out.  after liam's second birthday this weekend, we will finally be done with birthdays.....well, at least for 2 weeks before it's hugh's.  :)


here are some pictures from our busy month:

jackson & his best buddy gavin. 
they are birthday buddies.
they were born on the exact same day... in the exact same year. 
so crazy and fun.

apple picking up at greenbluff

just couldn't quite wait....HAD to chomp into that crisp apple

some friends of ours introduced us to this cute little farm out in otis orchards -- ac starr farms.  they have tons of delicious fruits and veggies....and pumpkins.  and the best part -- it's only five minutes from our house.  much better than the 35-45 minute drive up to the farms in greeenbluff.  especially with 2 excited/impatient on the way there (tired and crabby on the way home) kids.  :)   

the farm had a little harvest festival this day.  they had hay rides, a corn maze, pumpkin launching, and face painting.  so. much. fun!

heading into the corn maze with their buddy luke.  and yes, somehow we did manage to lose jackson at one point...in the easiest corn maze ever.  eek.

love his "CHEESE" face

hay rides are the BEST

 

halloween.

jackson wanted to be a shark...again.  he is so fascinated...scratch that - completely obsessed with sharks.  about a year and a half ago i came home one night from coffee with a friend, only to find hugh asleep on the couch...and my 3 year old watching "the real life story of jaws" on shark week.  ahhh! his eyes were as wide as i've ever seen them, as he sat there taking it all in.  needless to say, i was not happy with daddy and was certain we would have countless nights of nightmares. 

but we didn't.  he never once had a nightmare and is absolutely fascinated with sharks.  now he has books and books about sharks and can spit out facts about all the differents kinds of sharks, where they live, how big they are, etc.  it's incredible.  maybe we have a future marine biologist on our hands. 

so when he wanted to be a shark again for halloween this year, i wasn't surprised.  it still fit, so it worked out perfectly.  liam was a monkey - which is oh-so-very fitting of his personality. 

trick or treating was so fun this year, now that both the boys were into it.  liam just stood at each door saying "treeeeat"  that's right....he didn't even give them the "trick" option.  :)



heading out to trick-or-treat

cousins - with my cutie pie little niece, addie. 
cutest little ladybug.  ever!