Saturday, October 13, 2012

Pumpkin Patch 2012

Another fall, another visit to the Pumpkin Patch for our family.  This time, we had Uncle Bret, Auntie & Atticus along as well, which made it extra fun.  

Ryan's annual growth photo (Kaeden was not in the mood):

First stop: hay maze.  The boys just loved chasing each other through it:



Award for most loved activity (at least by Ryan & Atticus) this year goes to the corn crib.  They had two of them this year... one for older kids and one for younger.  Of course, they all had to go in the older kids one since Ryan was too big for the 3 & under one.  It even had slides.  So much fun!  

 




Ryan was in absolute bliss the whole time.  I think he would like to live in a giant pile of corn. 


Kaeden was not so into it and only agreed to enter if buffered by Daddy:

He did get in on a little bit of Ryan's craziness:
 
Still, they spent a good bit of the time watching:
 

And eventually, Mason took him over to the younger kids one, and he got a little more adventurous... but not much!
 


Next up was the slide.  Everybody liked that!
  
 



Sweet moment with Daddy

  And then came the hay ride.  Atticus was quite happy, waiting for the ride to begin:

We decided to try sneaking in a family photo.  The boys were a little distracted:

During the hay ride, we got out to explore the corn maze.  It was all going great until Kaeden fell and got a bloody nose/lip.  He deteriorated pretty quickly from there on out.

Even so, we took some time to check out the cotton field and pick some cotton.
 

And getting to sit on a big tractor revived Kaeden a little bit.
 

But it didn't hold him over long enough to get any kind of decent pumpkin photos this year.
 


Oh well.  



 Thanks for another fun day, Ganyard Hill Farms.  We'll shoot for 5 years in a row next year :)






Sunday, September 23, 2012

Atticus is 2!


My incredibly adorable nephew turned 2 years old today. 


Remember this and this?

Crazy how quickly these kiddos grow up.
 






Atticus got 2 parties this year - lucky boy :-)  

The first was at play group on Friday.  
He got a fire truck cake and a beautiful day to play outside with his friends:

 

More interested in tasting that frosting than posing for a photo with Auntie Lucia & Mommy


And today, yet another beautiful day at the park with family & friends, and, of course, sports cupcakes :)

 Kiddos waiting for a pizza dinner


Choosing his cupcake
 





I don't want a card.  Bring on the presents!
 
 
 
That's more like it!

Meanwhile... not so interested in the present opening

Family Photo

Happy birthday to my one and only nephew.  I love you so very much - you are such a special part of our family.  Just stop growing so fast, okay?