Patterson Farms

This year's pictures

Last year's picture...look how much they have changed!

"I want this pumpkin, Nana"!

Daddy zooming Savannah like a crazy airplane

Playing in the corn box

Today we went to Patterson Farms. The girls were able to ride a pony, see farm animals, play on the playground, play in a corn box (like a sandbox), take a hayride and pick out pumpkins. They had a WONDERFUL time! We went to Patterson Farms last year also. It was very neat to see from the pictures how much the children had grown and changed since then. Last year Savannah slept through most of the day (she was only 4 months then) and this year she was running around exploring and taking in everything! It was a very fun day!

Birthday, ALS Walk, Visiting.....

Savannah and I spent the last 4 days at my parents house. My aunt Debi flew in from Oregon and our good friend Pam drove down from Ohio to attend the ALS walk this weekend. They, along with my parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, siblings and in-laws all walked in the ALS walk this weekend in memory of my grandmother Ann who passed away from the disease a year ago. Although the situation for our get together wasn't the best it was great to get to see everyone and spend some time with them. However, the walk ended with a little scare. One of my aunt's tripped, hit her head against the concrete which knocked her out cold and caused her to have a seizure due to the head trauma. It was very scary. However, after much prayer and a trip to the ER she ended up being ok and leaving with a badly bruised shoulder, and concusion. On another note, Savannah had an absolute blast this weekend. Between hanging out with her grandparents and cousins (whom she adores), staying up late, eating cookies, brownies and even a cold stone creamery cake, she had about as much excitement as she could handle for a while! My mother's birthday was Friday, the 17th so we also were able to celebrate her birthday with her. Happy belated birthday mom. We love you very much.

Wonderful Friends!

Joel with sweet Aubrey. Isn't he a natural : )

We had a cook out tonight with some of our friends from church. We had a wonderful time! All of the children had a good time playing together while the adults socialized. Hope to be able to do it again soon!

Dixie Classic Fair

My niece Sydney doing flips on the trampoline

My niece Sydney crashed in my car on the way home....too funny! how uncomfortable!

The ride my sister-in-law and husband went on....I would have been puking my guts out!!

We went to the fair today with my family. We all had a great time even though it did get a little hot. The girls had a great time riding rides together. Here are some of the pictures from our day. BTW....thanks to Kia (another sister-in-law) for the great pictures...she was with us but couldn't ride any rides since she is "expecting".

A week of accidents...

This picture was taken hours after it happened so it looks much better....but still looks pretty bad in person...the picture didn't pick up her HUGE goose egg

This past week Savannah has had 2 yucky accidents. Last Monday while playing with her cousin Sydney and our dog Bo she fell into the wall face first and ended up with her first busted lip. I felt so bad for her. She had blood all in her mouth, lips, and chin. Our first experience with a bloody accident. Then today while at my parents house she and her cousin Emily collided and she got knocked into my parents brick fireplace. Luckily her hands hit the floor first so broke her fall otherwise I know we would have had our first trip to the ER. Anyway, as soon as she stood up she immediately had a HUGE bluish/green goose egg in the middle of her head between her eyebrows. She also ended up with another small bloody lip. It did scare me because her head hit brick! We put ice on it and gave her tylenol for the pain. My sister-in-law who knows A LOT about first aid was there so she told us what to do...what to look for...when you would need to go to the ER and kept me calm. We ended up still getting to go to the fair and within a couple of hours it still looks pretty bad in person but 100% better than it did right when it happened. I am hoping she doesn't wake up in the morning with raccoon eyes. Poor thing has had quite a week!

Cousins!

Here is a picture we took today before church of the 3 girls (cousins). We love putting them in matching outfits and thought that they looked too cute!