Season Fun

We have had a lot of seasonal fun this year!  A fun hayride and decorating pumpkin time at Cousin Nate's birthday party were some of the highlights!  The girls really had fun with their cousins and friends with the seasonal theme.

So, we had to get out the pumpkin seeds of another pumpkin and toast them while decorating two sides of the pumpkin, one for each girl.

Next, a little dress up time.  The girls wanted to have princess for this year, both of them!  No other costume would do.  So, they dressed up as princesses and we went to our church's fall festival.

Riding the train was one highlight, also the girls did a lot of bouncing on inflatables.

So big to see both of them in one ride all by themselves!

Next, some fair type activities to win candy prizes.  The girls did this for quite a while.  Much neater than trickortreating in my book!

And, a neat touch, a horse ride for each of them.  We did this last to save the best for last!

Happy Trails!

October School Activities

Wow, school has certainly been busy!  With both in some sort of school, we have had a lot of activities since the start.  One activity was Nicole taking home the "class pet," Buster, for a weekend.  We took him to an event at the state park for a kid type fair day with some little games with prizes.  Buster, Nicole, and Natalie had a lot of fun!

The next event for Nicole was farmer day.  She had fun dressing up as a farmer.

And, after farmer day was the first field trip to an actual animal farm!  Here she is getting ready to go on the bus to the farm on that special day.

Back off the bus!

At the farm, the main event was riding on a horse-drawn carriage around the farm to look at a lot of different animals while a guide talked.  It was a lot of fun!

Mommy had fun with her special youngest one!

Then, we saw some displays of farming implements and different types of wagons, some reproductions and one was an actual one (no kids allowed to touch that one!).  This one was a reproduction of one at the Smithsonian.

The whole class had fun going, although one little girl didn't want her picture made.  Here's the rest of the field-trippers!

Next, it was time for Natalie's fun day at school.  Grandma & Grandpa were there to help and enjoy too.

Natalie sang a song with her class for a competition, then we were free to do rides, bouncies, and eat.  It was a lot of fun to go around with both girls and see them have fun!

Then, Natalie wanted to have a feather.  I don't know if I quite understand this latest fad...makes me think of Yankee Doodle.  However, it was fun and helped raise some money for the school.  Nicole had her face painted while Natalie had a feather!

Then, back to a Harvest Party for Nicole.  It was fun to celebrate the season with her classmates (all of them, this time!).  She made a really cute paper bag pumpkin and a neat placemat.

Happy times!