pumpkin patch

I love the pumpkin patch! We got to go to the patch this year on the 29th of October! We have never waited that long before but the weekends seem to be flying by! We didn't even get to the apple orchard this year! I wanted Krissy to come along but she was too busy in her social calendar to make an appearance this year. ;0)

The weather was lovely, sunny and not too cool. Dad, mom, Gideon and Gabriel went for a fun outting! Enjoy my pic's.

Farmer Gideon
Love the mohawk!
Never too old for the ride
Gabe sit down so I can take your pic!
Face painting!
Trying to take turns

At least one of my boys will pose

They loved to goats! We spent
so much time with them!
One does it both want to do
it!

My favorite picture of the day
my boys enjoying the hayride

I love memories like these. I wish we had more days that were this much fun all together as a family. I can never get enough. Next time, I'll do better getting pics of mom and dad! You'll see the pumpkins in our Halloween post!

My Super Hero

We got to watch the movie, "Green Lantern," last night at Uncle Rick and Auntie Cheryl's house. It was a good movie, for me, I was so tired that I had to go to bed in the middle of it. But before I went to bed, I got to catch a moment of precious innocence.

My youngest son Gabriel, 6 year old. Is watching this movie and at times it's scaring him so he's hiding his eyes but he is dying to see the Green Lantern super hero. Finally it happens, the green lantern flies through the air and we all think to ourselves it would be cool if you could fly.

My son believes we can fly. He believes that he can grow up to be the Green Lantern. He can't wait and is excited for it to transform him. He doesn't doubt any thing, even if someone tells him differently. He will be a super hero some day.

My husband and I exchange a smile with each other. We know the impossibility of it. But we don't say anything. In fact Dj says, we'll have to start saving for our super hero outfit. ;0)

I hope my boys feel this way with the Lord. I hope they believe me without doubt. This is the way it should be even for us with adults. But we know that it is possible.

homemade is the best!

I don't generally like to drink. When we come to my brother in laws we all have a little something. I have tried many different wines as my hubby likes them so much but never found one that tasted good. Except for like boones farm and as an adult I refuse to drink that or the wine coolers!

My brother in law has been trying his hand at making homemade wine. This batch was a homemade bottle of pomegranite and it really tastes good! If more wine was like this, then I would drink it.

I bought this chocolate to go with it, tasted pretty good together!
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chiggers, I think not

A week ago my hubby thought he got bite by chiggers. So having had them before he let it run its course. Lately his legs have been swelling and looking red and weepy. I finally told him he had to go to the doctor! I made the appointment. Soooo glad I did!

The doctor thought he got into some kind of plant causing the rash. Now its be come infected. The paperwork says staph infection... The doctor prescribed Prednisone to help swelling, cephalexin for antibotic and hydroxyzine to help him sleep.

So I am very happy to finally have gotten him treated! He seems more upbeat cause there is an answer.now to wash all the bedding etc and lysol like crazy everything!

Baking Fiend

Last week I was off on thursday and friday for the Jewish holiday, Sukkot. I had monday and tuesday of this week off due to conferences and my school did not need me to come in for those to work. So what did I do with my time off??? Aside from hanging with my family and getting to do things with them that I don't normally get to do, I baked! I love baking versus cooking. I love sugar!

Thursday Night
Special K Bars!

Saturday Night
Lemon bread! See the yummy glaze on top!

Sunday and Monday yes both nights, I baked
Chocolate chip cookies! Everyone's Fav

I have never baked the lemon bread before and I gotta say that recipe was wonderful! I loved it. It was very tasty especially with a real lemon versus the lemon juice. And the glaze was awesome! I might have to remember that for other recipes where a glaze would be lovely!

Special K bars are my old favorite. I like making them without the butterscotch chips! So much better in my opinion.

And when asking the kids their favorite cookie, they of course say chocolate chip! my hubby likes them a little crispier, I like them a little more cakey and the kids love the dough.

I hope I haven't gained ten pounds! It's been soooooo long since I've baked, I am not going to worry about it. I'll enjoy it. Then when I'm working again, I'll stick to the routine of not baking.

Bonfire Days

Lately the weather has been very cool! Perfect bonfire weather! I love that in our area we can have a fire pit and do a bonfire any day of the week! This weekend we had two bonfires and invited the neighbors. I also love our relationships with our neighbors! It was a very good time.... kids with marshmellows burnt by the fire. Jumping on the trampoline in the dark. Good memories.....

library

I used to go to the library as a child for a place to go....I didnt have a love of reading then, in factI really disliked reading. Idid try, I read sweet valley high books and when I was younger it was the Ramona books. As an adult, I have never really gotten into reading. For book clubs, I just wanted to be a part of the social interaction so i forced myself to read big books like the
Davinci code. I can read pretty fast, not sure how I do it, maybe it was to get things over with faster!

Something happened to me this last summer. I discovered that I could lose myself in a book. i could disappear from my very stressful life. the books had to be fiction of course. it helped me get through my side effects from medication and the constant ups and downs of my hubby. i have loved reading! so much in fact that i get bummed when the book comes to an end. i miss the characters and the story line. then i venture to the library and get another!

i started with romance, danielle steel and nora roberts. love it! recently i picked up jodi picoult. oh she is good! really good! i finished the pact. wonderful story. so today my family and i went to stillwater library. on a sunday! i couldnt even wait til monday!

i got another jodi picoult book, keeping faith. i cant wait to start. while there we saw the library has added some new kid stuff. funny when i was a sahm i was at the library every week for something to do with the kids. the past three years i've been working and it seems we never go. or very rarely. the kids had a blast doing a puppet show... a lot has changed in these three years.

we all had a blast....at the library....who would have guessed it!