Shades of Autumn Festival at Stades Farm

It is the Shades of Autumn Festival at Stades Farm, and let me tell you this place has so much to do and see!!!
The corn bins ROCKED!!!! I wish we could have stayed in there all day long!

Uncle Peter and Auntie Jeannine took us to this Farm this farm after they had discovered it a couple weeks ago. They thought we might have fun there...hmmm I wonder if they were correct???

The big haybale maze. We decided walking on top of the bales were more fun!

Amelia and I were a little scared of the ginormous pumpkin shooter, so Auntie Jeannine took Amelia to a say place far away from the shooter. (It actually wasn't loud at all!)

Frank the combine!

Here is the pumkin cannon/shooter/chucker thing!

Hay wagon ride out to the pumpkin patch! Yee-haw!

All aboard the pumpkin train!

Choo-choo!

That was so much fun!

(More sideways pics...grrrrr!)

Time to head home!

Azoosment Park at Santa's Village

Today was a perfect day to spend outside and play in the North Pole!

Amelia needed a little push to make it all the way around the track using her little arms to pedal the little engine.

There were two "jumpy" things to go wild in!

Enjoying the beautiful fall flowers and decor while wearing shorts and t-shirts!

James chose to ride in this flying jet since Uncle Peter is a fan of NASCAR!

"Honk, HonKKKK!" The best part of all of these kiddie rides is...the adults can ride along too! ( I have a pic of Diane and I riding on one of the trucks but Blogger is being a pain at the moment.)

Check out those HUGE tortoises!

An albino SKUNK! So, surprisingly cute!"Look! Santa's reindeer!"

Nana shared stories of Daddy sliding down this very same slide just about the same as James is now. James had a blast zooming down the original "Santa's Historic Slide" built in 1959!

"Not another picture, Mommy!"

Midge O Racers...zoommmmm!

This was an original Kiddieland classic dating back to 1953!

James figured out that by lying straight down on his back he could actually get air flying off the slide!

Roto Whip, another Kiddieland classsic!

This ride at first looked very intimidating to both James and Amelia, so we walked up to it a couple of times before actually getting the nerve to take a ride. The nice man operating the ride told us that if we needed him to stop at any time just say so. Well, I am glad we braved the ride, because it was so fun! James rode it five times in a row! Nana took took back to back rides with Amelia and decided that it would be in the best interest for her to sit the next one out, which upset Miss Amelia. So, she decided she could ride all by herself! She was the only one on the ride!

Thanks Nana, for another fun adventure!

3 Going on...to the Chapel?!

Today, we had our annual photo shoot with Miss Amelia and her Mommy's wedding dress. She was rather...let's just say...in a mood. So, Daddy and Grandma Judy came up with option B, hold the dress up infront of her and Papa bribed her with a candy pumpkin treat for a smile. Ah, the joys of being 3 and stubborn! Oh well, I guess you can still see her growth compared to last 2 years!

Happy Birthday Sweet Pea!

HAPPY ST. PAT'S DAY!

A Leprechaun Was HERE!!!!!

When Amelia and I woke up from our afternoon nap, this is what we found...

The house has been ransacked by a leprechaun!!!!

Everything was everywhere! Chairs on top of tables, toys sprawled out on the couches, Mommy and Daddy's pillows thrown on the floor, our blue chair tipped over out on the deck, the kitchen turned upside down and all of the outside toys that the "Z Family" helped us put away earlier dumped all over the entire backyard!!!! What a stinker that itty-bitty leprechaun was!!! Mommy said he must have been looking for gold all throughout the house inside and out!

I wanted to start helping Mommy clean up this mess, but when I lifted up a jacket from the floor, a green shamrock was hiding there! The leprechaun must have left it behind, I wonder if there are more? Amelia was on the phone leaving a message with Daddy to inform him what was happening here at home.

While we were starting to clean up the yard (again) our neighbors Jeromy and Addy stopped by to visit, they too were shocked by what was going on. Then, our dinner guests, April, Brooke and Baby Cody trotted on over just in time to see our mess. They were so kind by lending a hand in the clean up. Thanks neighbors!

Sure enough, while we were flipping things back over and putting things back in their proper places, we found many shamrocks!

What a crazy evening we have had!

Swinging, Bubble Blowing and Kite Eating?

Today, we had the lovely "Z Family" over for a nice playdate. This was our second day in a row of warm, spring-like air. Ahhhhh!

Look at us little kiddos pushing the big kiddos!
Heather found this clever lunch idea that Mommy thought would be a fun for us to share with our friends. It was kite sandwiches. Well, they for some reason did not go over very well, maybe it was because this was our first time eating outside in a very, very long time and it was just too nice outside to sit down and eat. Oh, well... at least they looked pretty cool!

BUBBLES!!!

Thanks for hanging out with us on this beautiful, St. Patty's Day!

Gems and Gold

This afternoon, we found some new treasures in our "split pea" sensory bin...
Gold and GEMS!
(Thanks Joshua for sharing some of your cool gems with us!)