This past Saturday we took the kids to the Family FUN Fest at Pattersons farm. A good time was had by all:) They had fun slides that were really long and not too fast, a tree house slide, a playground kind of in the forrest, a playground covered in hay that was being thrown everywhere, a tractor to play on, a kid corn maze and a bigger one as well, yummy food-we liked the kettle corn, yum, anyway, the kids loved it and could have spent the entire time going down the long slide! The hay throwing at the playground got old really fast, but other than that we had a great family afternoon:)
This was taken obviously afterwards, I got the pics a little out of order. Tyler had a soccer game before we went to Pattersons and was completely zonked out for the ride home.
Heres shimmying (is that a word?) up the pole on the playground. We had a hard time convincing him to change into pants after his soccer game, hence the hay poking everywhere out of his shin guards.
Tyler showing off at the slide with his backwards skills:)
Halle sliding down hanging onto her apple. They had big bins of apples you could eat, it grossed me out because everyone was just reaching in and picking up apples and then putting them back, you never knew how many people had touched your apple, ick, we all ate one anyway and nothing happened to us:)
There was a tractor that took you out to the fun fest, the kids thought it was cool and that it looked like the tractors at Grandma and Grandpa Pearsons:)
Here we are at the corn maze. It was a little muddy in places but the kids had fun trying to find their way out.
They had all of these pumpkins for sale as well as a huge pumpkin patch. Halle had fun touching every single one, knocking them over, and trying to roll all of them, she made me tired just watching. We had such a fun saturday as a family, Chase has been hard at work in school so it was nice to have an afternoon to be together!
Yesterday Tyler came home from school and told me they had started talking a lot about leaves. He ran into the house and straight into the backyard picking up different leaves, then plopped them all down on the kitchen table showing them to us. We put a piece of paper over the leaves and rubbed over the top with a crayon to make a leaf picture, they really thought that was fun. Tyler then asked if he could rake the leaves in the backyard, and I was more than happy to get him a rake and let him have at it. He raked and raked and raked! He kept shouting into the house for us to not look out the window until he was done. He was out there for over an hour just raking away. The other day he got run over literally by two big boys on their bike and got pretty scraped up on his elbow and knee (you can kind of see his bandages) which didn't make the raking any easier. I was so proud of him for keeping after his job he started, I just love this little boy:)!
Here is the big pile of leaves Tyler had when he was all done! Way to go bud!!
Heres what Halle did while Tyler raked:) She started helping Ty rake for awhile but I'm pretty sure he shooed her away after she messed up his pile one to many times! She loves this sand box, and despite sand everywhere (in their hair, clothes, in the house, really everywhere) it is worth it for the fun they have in it...it just means extra sweeping and a gritty tub:)
I just thought I would add these last 2 pics. This is a tutu (spelling anyone?) we made for Halle awhile ago. She has no dress up clothes and it is her favorite thing to do! We will be raiding all stores after Halloween for dress ups, if anyone wants to join me. 
She loves this tutu and wears it all the time. She tells me she is so special and a princess everyday, and she is! I hope she never forgets it:) My friend gave Halle these little ballet slippers that her little girl never got around to wearing, so cute...thanks Audrey!!
