Fall Harvest Orchard

I love the fall season, with it's crisp mornings and warm afternoons, I love all the changing colors of the trees and I love sharing it all with my kids!

a couple of weeks ago we took the kids to Fall Harvest Orchard in Delano. The orchard is run by a retired couple and they have this really cute farm where you can go and feed the animals, hold baby chicks and goats, see baby pigs and cows and you can pick your own apples and buy fresh produce like squash and pumpkins. We had an absolute blast! Abby was in love with the baby chicks and shawn just loved that he could run around! I miss the little hobby farm that I grew up on and I am so glad that there are still places like that around so that I can take my kids and introduce them to all of the things that I loved growing up.

~Tiny Dancer~

Abby started her first year of dance last week. She has been begging me since she was two to let her go, but they only have classes for as young as three. So when Abby had her birthday in May we told her that she's a big girl now and old enough for dance class! That was a mistake because all summer she kept asking if it was time to go to dance class.... Needless to say Abby is loving it!

Goose Hunting Part 2

After our failed attempt at shooting a goose opening morning, we decided to go back that night and take the kids with us. Abby is always asking to go hunting with daddy and she's fairly good at staying quiet. Shawn on the other hand...well all he wanted to do was run around and eat rocks! Both the kids loved the decoys we had set out, Shawn decided that he wanted to ride them and and Abby had to give them all kisses before we left! So once again no geese but we still had fun!

Goose Hunting Part 1

Matt bought me a bow this year so that we could do more things "together". I was a little hesitant at first, but it's actually really fun! So friday night we lugged the kids over to Matts moms house and picked up his brother Jeff so that he could enjoy the festivities as well. Saturday morning we woke up at 4am and then hit the road so we could meet up with the rest of our group. We hunted on 37 acres of freshly plowed oats where we had seen TONS of geese feeding before. Well as it so often happens we were out there for 5 hours and only saw one goose....It landed 74 yards out and all of us shot at it at once. Not a single person hit it. The dang bird flew away and probably warned all of his buddies to steer clear! Oh well goose season just started and dear opener is next saturday!

Sorry....

Sorry to all the Great-grandparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and other various members of family and to all of you friends. My camera broke while at the beach taking pictures (Arrrgggg!!!!) and I had to save money for a new one. Thats why I haven't posted new pictures in FOREVER! It sucks because while I was cameraless we took the kids to the zoo and the state fair and had a blast! Fear not I bought my new camera last week and will start right back up. Enjoy and sorry for the delay!