We arrived back from BeBe and Papa's Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning we met our former neighbor, Carson and his mom and Little Monkey Bizness.  The place was unusually quiet and the kids loved running all about the place.

That afternoon Gianna and Alexa invited us to go with them to a pumpkin patch so we drove to Liberty, Mo for the afternoon.  Carolyn's Country Pumpkin Patch had a lot of things for the kids to do and they enjoyed playing on everything.  The weather was perfect and we were thankful for the invitation.

Visit

The kids and I had the opportunity to visit BeBe and Papa for a little over a week.  We left on Sunday, October 10th and came back home the following Tuesday.

We had a fabulous time.  The reason we went was to help BeBe make applesauce for us.  She had bought 7 bushels of apples and with the help of Aunt Jenney we made a little over 100 quarts of applesauce.  The kids loved helping crank the apples through the press to make the sauce.  It was a good experience for them and I hope memories were made.

It was great that Aunt Jenney was able to make the trip up with the cousins.  It was an unexpected treat for all of us to see them.  The weather was so great that the cousins got to play outside and even take a trip to the park.

The rest of the week we spent on the farm with an exception of a town day.  The kids really enjoyed their time with Papa.  He spoiled them with a bobcat ride, a tractor ride, a 4-wheeler ride and a ride in the pick-up.  They also spent a couple of afternoons "helping" him around the farm.

One evening Papa took them to a dairy farm which milks a little over 120 cows.  There they got to see and feed calves and climb in the hay mow.  After that they got to go into the barn and watch the cows be milked.

BeBe made time special for them by playing games with them, cooking with them and reading stories to them.

We were all spoiled during our stay and we are thankful for the time we got to spend with them.


BeBe bought special play dough toys for them and helped them with them...

Making applesauce...

We got a mini "photo shoot"

Misc. pictures...

We went to the Louisburg Cider Fest a couple of weekends ago.  The kids enjoyed playing with the pumpkins, getting a tattoo, going through the corn maize and playing around.

Telling them about the maze.

This is Blake's silly grumpy face...

We have a certain boy in our house who likes the frosting on the pumpkin bars.  As you can see, he used his fingers to eat most of one side...

Along with our new house comes yard work.  Blake likes to help with keeping the new grass damp...

Samantha has become quite confident on her bike and has started to do small "tricks" take more chances...

We enjoyed a day with our church a Pamona lake.  It was a bit chilly but we enjoyed it just the same...

We've been enjoying our great weather and spending as much time outside as we possibly can despite our busy schedules.  Yesterday the kids decided that they wanted to have a few pictures taken...