Country Western Fall Festival

Saturday we attended the Country Western Fall Festival at the Quinn Fam Farm. It was a great event as always. We started by getting everybody dressed in their cowboy and cowgirl duds. I couldn't get a great picture of everybody together. I did the best I could.

We started the afternoon out with the kids riding horses. A family friend brought his horses for the kids to ride. Landon, Mia, and Logan were in heaven. Cy acted like he wanted to ride, but changed his mind as we got closer to the horses. Logan made a new friend with Amy. He is such a ladies man. We were very thankful to Bill and Amy for helping the kids with the horses.

Mia made a new friend too. She had a butterfly land on her hand. She was able to walk around with it. She named it Bella. She finally put it on some flowers, but it flew back to her later and landed on her arm.

Karen had great games planned. The kids had to find two dozen eggs hidden in a pile of hay. The adults had two very interesting games. First we had a manure throwing contest for distance. Thankfully they provided us with latex gloves. Then we had a riding lawn mower race. It turned into riding lawn mower bumper cars while dodging flying manure. You never know what to expect at the farm.

We also took a hay ride back in the field and the kids searched for pumpkins. They then decorated their pumpkins with Mr. Potato Head looking eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.

We had a great dinner with Chicken n' dumplings and all the fixins'. We ended the night by the bonfire roasting marshmallows and making smores.

We had five very tired children and two worn out adults!! We all slept great!!

Read to Succeed

Friday was Read to Succeed day at Landon and Mia's schools. They both dressed up as their favorite book character. Mia was Fancy Nancy and Landon was Jack from the Magic Tree House books. After Mia left for school, Landon said he thought her class would be jealous because she was so fancy. He thought she did a good job picking out her outfit. She would dress like this everyday if I would let her. Landon had to find something as close to normal as possible. I don't know how long the glasses actually lasted at school.

Soccer

We are in the middle of soccer season. Both Landon and Mia are playing this year. They seem to love it and are doing very good. It keeps us busy, but I love it! I can only imagine the balancing act that will have to take place when we have all of them in sports. I guess it is a good thing I enjoy sports. I have yet to remember to take my camera to their soccer games. Maybe once the half marathon is over and I am not rushing from a long run to the soccer field I will remember my camera. Hopefully I will have a post with pictures of my two soccer stars soon!

Logan and his animals

Logan loves to play outside with this tub and his animals. He often fills it with water and plays with the animals. For some reason he does not like to keep his clothes on when he is in the backyard. This particular day it was a little chilly outside. I usually leave the back door open or window open so I can hear him playing. I knew he was having a good time, but I didn't expect what I saw when I looked outside. He said he was cold so he just got in the water with his animals. Whatever keeps the boy entertained!! He has a great imagination and loves his animals (or I should say Landon's animals that he lets Logan play with).

Happy Birthday Mia

On August 22, Mia turned 6. She had her entire day planned. She wanted chocolate donuts with sprinkles for breakfast, she told me exactly what to put in her lunch box, and we had a party at Chuck E Cheese that night. She was so excited about her birthday!! It was a great day!

Mia is turning into such a great big girl. She is such a good helper. She loves school and especially reading. Dancing, singing, and dressing up are still her all time favorite things to do! We love our Mia!!!

So far behind

In an effort to keep other areas of my life in order, I have put blogging on hold. I will attempt in the next few post to catch up a little.