Pumpkin Farm!

Today turned out to be the exact opposite as yesterday.  I was able to get a nice trail run in the this morning, minus the rain.

We spent the rest of the day at Hillridge Farms in Youngsville.  It's a pretty fun place.  We go here each year.  You pay one price ($10) to get in and have access to everything but the train and jumping pillow.  You have to pay extra for those.  But the entrance fee includes other bounce houses, a big corn pit, hay pit/areas, a tractor ride, a pumpkin, etc...The boys love it here.  They are doing a Christmas lights exhibit this year...I think we'll check it out.

They started off in the maze...we soon realized it was pretty wet/muddy and had lots of puddles.  Austin tried to jump over a puddle like Hunter and landed in it.  He didn't like that his shoes were wet.  So...

Hunter carried him the rest of the way through...

It was a long maze!  When they were done Hunter said, "I love you, Austin."  Austin responded with, "I love you, bro bro."  So sweet!

We paid a little extra this year to let them jump on the bounce pillow.  They loved it!

There are always a few goats just hanging out on their play structure.

Checking out the ponies (oh, you can pay extra to ride one too, but my kids have never been interested in riding them)

For those of you that remember...2 years ago when Hunter was 4 and Austin was few months we were here.  Hunter was going on the slide over and over and didn't mention to me that he had to use the bathroom.  After a turn down the slide (while on my lap) we got the very bottom and he just stood up and peed all over.  I had to quickly wipe it up with wipes before the next person came down.  Then I had to drive to a Dollar General (closest store to the farm) to buy him a new outfit.  Fun times!

The corn pit...

Feeding the animals.

This goat had some freakishly long antlers or horns...whatever they're called.

Back to the corn pit.

Hay ride!

Field of pumpkins...I would like this place even more if you could actually "pick" your pumpkins.  

Austin would pick up a pumpkin and then decide he wanted another one...so he would tossing pumpkins left and right before he found one.

And, to prove I was there...Take 1:

Take 2:

Take 3:

As you can imagine...we were all pretty tired once we got home.

Fun Rainy Day

Not really...long, rainy day...

It started off with a shorter then planned run (and location change) in the dreary weather.

Then it poured on and off throughout the day.  

Mix that with a 2 year old who won't nap and you can just imagine how much energy was built up in the house.

I didn't take any pictures today, for obvious reasons.

I just got through giving a screaming 2 year old a bath...over the past two days he has thrown three major tantrums and ends each one (of at least 15 minutes) with, "I'm done."  It's quite enjoyable and I really hope the saying, "boys are harder when they're younger and girls are harder when they're older" is true.  

To end this negative post with something positive...Raleigh, NC is not in a drought.

Friday, Sept. 29th

To finish our week on the letter B we made bubbles in the house...

Ella was too scared to blow the bubbles, so I had to make hers.

Spiderman...aka...Austin.  He laughs whenever he sees this picture.

Right before Hunter's baseball game I ran upstairs to grab something and found out that THIS is what Hunter, Ella, and Austin did to Hunter's room.  (they didn't let the pack-n-play for Cam get in the way)

Only one inning was played due to the weather, but Hunter played catcher.

And made it all the way home...he was running really fast.  He told me he did not like to get out during baseball, so I told him to run faster.

Go Bees!

The boys going crazy on the bed.