colonel cobb's corn maze and pumpkin patch

so today we had a field trip to the pumpkin patch. it was quite fun! perfect weather for it! slightly overcast, wonderful 60 degrees, slight breeze. just perfect. we walked the corn maze, took a hay ride, played in their play area including a huge slide, a bouncy house, a playground, a chicken feed silo, a hay bale maze, a petting zoo, and so forth! the kids had a blast. and i came home and took a nap! HA!

entering the corn maze - the kids have the maps. ;)


enjoying the hayride - notice marie's noze...she had a run in with the carpet and lost...first rugburn. :(


fall family photo

i love fall

i love fall weather! i love fall activities! i love fall food! i love fall! here's what we've done so far... :)

Making pirate and princess pumpkins

a visit from grandpa davis (whose house we stayed at in florida). four generations. :)



an october birthday bash! emily jane's and angela's and chris' birthdays are all in october! (there's more on the carson side as well but i didn't brings my camera to that party! oops!) we saw chris and ashely's new house - WOW it was beautiful! i'm so incredibly happy for them and maybe a tad jealous. ;D



my whole entire family! everyone! in one place! this never happens - well at least not often enough. starting in the the back left! mom holding marie, me, rhett holding eben, chris (michelle's fiance) holding emily jane, michelle, chris, ashley (front row) dad, becca, angela, john. WHEW! we were only missing john's significant other laura - perhaps the next family photo will have her in it! ;) hehe

the beach the beach the wonderful beach!

our vacation was a wonderful week of perfect weather and blissful relaxation! i want to go back today!!!! the kids loved the beach - the sand, the water, the animals, everything! rhett and i loved watching them play and enjoying it with them.

some highlights:

marie sticking her finger into and tasting the sand. over and over again.

the first time emily jane saw the beach and the sand: "mommy! look at all this...this...snow!!! it's everywhere!! there's so much snow!"

eben: "momma!! i just petted a glass fish! it came right up to me! it wasn't fake or dead - it swam right up to me and i touched it and it swam away! a real glass fish!"

marie pointing and yelling at the waves whenever they would come to "get" her.



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and then she was three

my beautiful emily jane is now three - we've had quite a few parties and still one more to come! she's quite the three year old - chatting on and on about everything and nothing! she has a shorter big girl hair cut (which i'm not quite sure how i feel about it!) and is turning into such a big helper. i just love my 3 year old daughter!


my failing attempt at a princess castle birthday cake...



singing happy birthday and her rambling on about a present that i had no idea she wanted?!






getting her barbie jeep (thank you pastor john for this wonderful hand me down!)

playing with her presents





her very first french braids for her birthday at school



the morning of her actual birthday - looks quite happy in her birthday cake shirt :)



her party at chuck e cheese - they had SO much fun! emily jane loved the rides while eben loved the games - he's doing his victory dance at getting the jackpot of tickets. :) hee hee - and marie just loved watching everyone there.

popcorn and movie night

here's one of our first friday night movie and popcorn nights...i forget which movie we were watching...but you can see marie isn't into movies just yet. :)