Autumn 2014: Pumkpins and Hay Rides and the Like

We are going to quickly recap what has happened in the last part of 2014.  It seems my norm for blogging these days is playing catch up, but I really do want to share our pictures and adventures and my cute kiddos faces.

We actually had quite a packed Autumn.  Most of our excursions centered around pumpkins and dressing up and Halloween because, well, we love Halloween around our house.  It is celebrated all month long.  I might be just as sad when we have t take the decorations down as the kids are.

Kenny is part of a Master Gardeners Program through Mizzou.  They put a on Fall Festival at their demonstration gardens in Jefferson City.  There was food and games and booths and hay rides and face painting.  I got no pictures while we were actually there, Drats! But it was exceptionally fun. It really was a wonderful, and fun activity to take the kiddos to.  This was both of our boys first experiences int he world of face painting. I was a bit nervous that they might freak out or want to wipe the paint off the minute it got on or something, but they did great.  Shiloh chose to be Spiderman so, naturally, Eli wanted to be Spiderman too, but "a Bdoo piderman mom!"  He couldn't handle how much it tickled when they started to paint the lines on his nose so he didn't get his finished, but he didn't seem to notice.

One of our neighbors a couple of miles down the road throws a Halloween party and dinner every year.  We just recently started to get to know them and they invited us this year.  We had a blast!  They did a hay ride, pumpkin carving, a Halloween themed dinner, and s'mores around a bonfire.  We had such a fun time getting to know a few more of the people that live around us and the boys enjoyed all of the tractors and food and kids.  It will definitely be something that we make a tradition out of.  Shiloh still talks about it.

Shi wasn't much into carving pumpkins.  He was off playing on the massive playground they had, but E sat there with me and Ken almost the whole time.

Love that smile!

Silly Daddy

Ours are the small four pumpkins on the bottom left.

Like every year, I made the boys' costumes.  We went to a town Halloween dinner put on by the Methodist church in Tebbetts.  It was almost 80 degrees the weekend that they did it, so the poor boys had take off their costumes after a few minutes.  The crazy things was that the next weekend, Halloween, it was freezing, so their little jacket costumes weren't enough for outside.  I guess you can't win sometimes.  I noticed something this Halloween.  My boys were the only kiddos at any of the 3 Halloween shin digs that we went to that had homemade costumes.  All of the other kiddos were wearing store bought ones.  Isn't that weird?  Or maybe I am weird because I make them.  I remember putting together things we already had and making parts of my costume as kid almost every year.

My two little T-rexes!  Everyone thought that they were monsters. I guess maybe I am not that great at costume construction, but they liked them and that is all that counts.

My parents came in October.  It was great to see them for a few days.  We timed it so that they could be there for the Hartsburg Pumpkin Festival.  It is in this tiny little town that has only a little over 100 people living in it, but on this weekend every year, they get tens of thousands of people coming.  We had so much fun showing the festival to some family.  We go every year, so it was fun to show someone we loved what we always talked about.  The boys were great and it wasn't too chilly.  It was a perfect autumn day.

Just one of the pumpkin patches in Hartsburg.

This picture turned out so well with both the boys and NaNa in the background.

 

We went to an airshow at the little tiny airport that they have just outside of Jeff City.  Apparently they do this every year, but they aren't very good at advertising it.  Kenny saw a small sign off of the highway on his way home from work, advertising an event the following day, but it didn't say what the event was.  We looked it up and decided to go.  We were so glad that we did.  I think that our boys had the most fun I have seen them have.  When the planes came in for a landing we got to be right there and watch them come in. There was breakfast and model remote-controlled airplanes. There were airplane bikes and an airplane tractor ride.  It was such a fun event.

Eli in the airplane bike.

Cutest face EVER!  I love it when he gives a good cheese for the camera.