Pumpkin Patch Baby!

Alls I have to say is that it was a beautiful day filled with lots of great friends, kiddos, tractor rides and pumpkins. I was bummed that we didn’t get to do slides this year but we just ran out of time! It was so crowded and poor D was eating hay he was so hungry! McCollum family, we missed you – last year was so much fun with y’all! Picture overload commencing . . .


D just couldn’t get enough of his little pumpkin!

Wordless Wednesday: New Foods!

Can you guess what we tried?


It was one of Maddie’s “first favorites,”


. . . . tacos! Well, just the meat – you get a few more teeth buddy and I’ll upgrade you to a soft taco, deal?


Yeah I think baby blue-eyes loved it!

Surprise!!

For Donny’s birthday (and mine) I planned a weekend getaway for the two of us at the Homestead. I arranged for us to have dinner Friday night, breakfast Saturday morning, golf Saturday afternoon, dinner the night and breakfast Sunday morning before heading home. Donny’s parents were brave enough to keep both the kids for the weekend. I kept this surprise for 5 weeks people. I had all kinds of precautions set up – decoy golf round on Saturday (thanks Chris), plans for that night, so that I would know for sure he would have no idea.

Here's how it went down:


Hilarious right? If you have never been to The Homestead – it is amazing. We really lucked out with some great weather and it was beautiful because all the leaves are starting to change. I mean look at the pictures and tell me you aren't impressed?


Saturday we played golf at . . . .the Cascades! One of the top courses in the nation – Donny was to excited, just watch:


The course, like everything else is amazing. The day started off a little overcast and breezy but ended up being amazing weather. The golf was challenging for sure – some hole we lost our ball because of all the leaves, other times we just didn’t know where or how far to hit it because we had never played – we are ready for next time for sure.


My lie on the tenth hole – I out drove the fairway down into the hill. Fortunately we played with a guy who takes pictures of birds and stuff for fun so he was willing to capture this moment on my camera.

We had an awesome time and came home full and well rested. Sunday was a cold rainy day which meant I couldn’t convince/drag Donny out to play the Old Course – ha ha. We picked up the kids who had an absolute blast at Mimi and Pop Pop’s and headed home. Thanks to everyone who was in on/helped with/and kept the surprise a secret!

Donuts with Dad

I love Maddie’s MDO School. She too would tell you she loves it, she would also tell you “I cry at school today.” She has cried every morning when I dropped her off – except the first day where she kind of looked around wondering who all these big kids were (and there are some big kids). Anywho, like last year, they have a “donuts with dads” day. The dads get to bring their kids to school, eat munchkins and do a craft – super adorable right?

Here they are last year – that’s as good as it got.

Here we are this year:

and some rather cute ones here too:

Phew . . . peace at last!

Like sister like brother

Is that how the saying goes? Kind of like ‘like father like son’? Well anyways, all I know is it really bothers Maddie that D likes to play inside the refrigerator. And I have to laugh because that was totally Maddie’s “thang” for a good couple months – do y’all remember?

Do you think they look alike?

Maddie calls these D’s “Go Dog Go” PJs.

D has also cut his second bottom tooth. Of course he wouldn’t cut them both at the same time – that would just be too natural. However he is leaps and bounds ahead of Maddie who cut her bottom two teeth when she turn one, yeah. I tried to get a picture of said “toofies” but I go mauled over . . .