Day Break Farms...Part Two

I took so many pictures on our field trip to Day Break Farms that I had to break it up into 2 posts.  It was such a pretty day and everything was decorated so pretty with the beautiful pumpkins and mums and hay...I just couldn't resist snapping so many pictures!

Thomas and his little friend AJ were taking a break.  As well as the surroundings being so pretty and fall looking, the kids were pretty darn cute too!

They had the neatest little train that was made out of some drums and they were painted to look like cows.  The owner of the farm had them hooked together like a train and he pulled them behind his mule.  Thomas and I were in the very first car and it was a fast, bumpy, dusty ride!  But it was loads of fun!

Bon Jean went with us and she had a good time just watching and talking with Ms. Retha Sue, the bus driver.  They talked all day and had the best time.  The farm had the neatest shelter fixed up for eating under.  They had a little "store" too where you could get drinks, chips, and candy.

The next to the last thing we did was walk through the corn maze.  I could have gotten soooo lost if we had not been following the leader.  The owner of the farm just took us on a little loop through the maze...but boy was I getting turned around..all I could think about was Children of the Corn HA!!

This is Ms. Alison and Thomas.  She is Ms. Ceil's helper and she is so sweet.  She is a high school student but she got to go with us on the field trip.  This was taken at the corn cannon game.  That was the last thing we did.  We paid $1.00 and Thomas got to shoot 3 corn cobs out of a cannon...he thought it was the coolest thing!

There is my little "punkin" in grinning for the camera!  He was so tired when we left the farm, I figured he would be alseep before we got to the end of the drive, but he stayed awake the whole way home!

Look at all those pumpkins!  Thomas wanted to take one home with him!  What a gorgeous fall day at a beautiful place with some precious children!  I definitely want to go back!

Day Break Farms...Part One

Last Monday we went on a field trip with Thomas' class to Day Break Farms and we had soooooo much fun!  It was a blast!  This was a shot of most of the class, some had already left with their parents when this was taken, but most were there.  Don't they look adorable in their pumpkin shirts Ms. Ceil made them???

When we first got there, we looked at all of the animals and petted them and even fet them.  There were cows to feed, horses, goats, pigs, and rabbits.  There was a little shetland pony there named "Trigger" and he was so cute. Thomas got a kick out of him because he would show you his teeth! HA! After the animals, we went on a hay ride and it was fun.  Then the kids just got to run around and see what all there was to do.  Thomas ran straight to the little tractors and played and rode around the hay bails.  What fun!

Another fun thing was Hay Mountain.  It was just a bunch of haybale's piled up and some sewage pipes that you could slide down.  All of the kids had a ball playing in the hay.  Just think we spend all of this money on toys and all we really need is hay! HA!

One of the most fun things they did was play in  the corn in this big area filled with corn. Wow it was so much fun!  Thomas had never done anything like it before and he thought it was the coolest thing ever!  Well, that was part one of the DayBreak Farms post.  Maybe it won't be a week before I get to finish it!

Catching Up Once Again!

I always seem to be doing a catch up post on this here blog!  There just isn't enough hours in the day to do all I want to do!  Oh well, I want to recap back to Thursday night when we had the Fall Festival at school.  It was a BLAST!!  There were about a gazillion people there...no, seriously...there were A LOT of folks there.  Thomas had a great time!! Steve drove one of the mules with a trailer behind it to pull kids through the haunted hay ride.  Thomas rode it about 3 times and he wasn't scared a bit!  He said the man with the chainsaw was "hiwarius" (translated hilarious)!  I worked at the cake walk and had a lot of fun watching the folks win cakes!  I would say it was a huge success and everyone is already looking forward to next year!

This was taken right before we left to go to the festival.  Isn't Thomas's shirt so cute???  Ms. Ceil made them for the whole class.  She tie-dyed them herself and painted them like a pumpkin. 

Thomas loved the Go Fishing game.  He was really only interested in it, the haunted hay ride, the bouncy thing, pick up ducks, and beating the car on the outside HA!

This was taken just before dark when the haunted hay ride started.  Thomas was ready to go and told me he wasn't scared of "nufin" (nothing) HA!  But....notice Zeke in the mule...he was scared!  Leanna Johnson rode with Steve and helped him take up tickets.  Thomas likes Leanna a lot!

Picking up ducks was another favorite thing to do!

He wasn't at all interested in the cake walk....but I was!!  I didn't win a cake but it was fun!

Campbell got her face painted and she won a cake too!!  Thomas wasn't too happy to get his picture made.  So, I think the festival was a huge success and everyone had a great time!

Parent Day

Today was Parent Day at school.  I went to school and sat with Thomas while he ate lunch.  I didn't eat because they eat at 10:00 a.m. and I just didn't think I could eat lunch at that time HA!!  So, I just went and sat with him while he ate and then we went back to their classroom and Ms. Ceil read a book and then they played at their centers.  Thomas was the only one that could tell Ms. Ceil what the Spanish word for orange is!  He is so smart, but.....he has no interest whatsoever in writing his name or coloring!  We have got to work on that!

Thomas and Savannah are getting ready for their lunch and Thomas took about 2 whole bites of his sandwich!  But...he did eat his Sunchips and drank his juice.  He was way too excited that I was there with him.

Thomas was getting ready to listen to the story Ms. Ceil was reading.

Thomas and his best friend AJ were playing with blocks.  Thomas says Aj is his one and only friend! HA!

They were really getting into it!  Thomas and AJ are almost exactly the same size...I was noticing that today!

I took this right before I sneaked out.  I told Thomas bye and that I was about to go and he was like...okay, see you this afternoon.  I'll take that anyday as opposed to leaving them crying!

When I was leaving I ran into Campbell Hawthorne and a few of her friends!  They had jsut enough time to stop and pose for a picture!

What cute little girls!  Oh well...after all the fun at Parents Day I had to go back to work and what a busy day at work it was!  Tori has had a virus and she has been "under the weather".  I am so thankful she is feeling better and she thinks she will be able to go back to school tomorrow...I sure hope so!!

A Beautiful, Fun, Productive Week-End

Well we are sooo close to being finished with the beauty shop!  Steve took down the shutters and I painted them.  I also finished the trim work in the bathroom and cleaned it up really well and it looks so good!  I have ordered some cushions for the wicker and hopefully it will be in the coming week.  Steve has the water hooked up, but the hot water doesn't work right, so he has to fix that.  Then, I just want to get some cute little valances or something for the windows and then it will be finished...or as finished as it is going to get!  I LOVE it!  It looks so much better!  It is amazing what a little bit of work(and paint) will do!  Debbie and Charles came this morning to the pink house, so Thomas, Campbell, and I went up there when I got finished with the shutters and the trim and doorsteps outside of the shop.  We just visited with them for a little while and then we came home and worked some more outside at Steve's shop.  Tori left from the pink house and went to Adam's...so we didn't see her anymore Saturday!  Kinley and Hilton came to play with Campbell and Thomas.  We had a picnic up at Campbell's playhouse.  The Wildcat is still sitting out and Cindy let out the awning and put up a table and we had sandwiches out there...it was fun!  Later, Kinley, Hilton, and Cambpell all came down to our house, as well as Mom, Debbie, Charles, Cindy and Collins.

They had a ball playing in the dirt!  They were some dirty, tired, HAPPY younguns!  They rode the dunebuggy and did pretty good taking turns. HA!!

Bon Jean and Debbie were cheesing!  It was so pretty outside, we just enjoyed sitting out watching the kids!  Bon Jean was itching to go get supper started, but we talked her into staying a little longer HA!!

Steve and Charles worked on Charles' bushhog.  I 'm not sure if they fixed it or not...but it was a little break for Steve from working on the shop.

They had fun riding the dune buggy....Thomas where are your sunglasses?????  It was so bright and pretty outside, I am so glad we all got to enjoy the beautiful weather!!

One Year

Okay...so I just got finished with my longest post ever!!  There was so many cute fair pictures and I still didn't put all of them on here!  Switching gears now to Tori and Adam.  They have been dating a year and they are celebrating their one year dating anniversary.  They have gone to Dothan to eat at Olive Garden (Tori's favorite place to eat)!  Adam gave her some gorgeous roses and perfume and took her out to eat! Wow!!  Tori gave him some Alabama shirts and made him a book...I think that was a really thoughtful gift...a book with pictures from their first year together! I took this picture today before they left for their Dothan trip.

They looked so handsome and pretty tonight!  I hope they had a good time and didn't eat too much at the Olive Garden!!

Fun Fair !!

We went to the "Fun Fair" as Thomas called it last night.  Steve and I took Thomas and Campbell to the Pike County Fair last night and they had a BALL!!  They were soooo sweet all night!  That fair is just the right size for us and it is very "little kid friendly".  They have a lot of rides for their age.  We stayed for almost 2 hours and then left there and went to McDonalds for supper and more playing on the playground.

They were so proud to finally get there.  I had to quickly snap this picture just as we got there while Steve was getting our jackets out of the car.

How sweet is that!  Campbell has really turned into a little mother hen with Thomas I noticed last night.  They still have their moments but I have really started to see a change in them.  She was constantly making sure Thomas was where he was supposed to be and telling him what to do. HA!! But he was really agreeable with her!

The airplanes were their first ride of the night.

Next was the boats....not such a good picture.  I couldn't figure out how to capture a motion picture HA!!

They were standing in line to ride another ride and Campbell was making sure Thomas stayed put!

Getting strapped in to ride the little fish.  This man took his job really seriously.  After he strapped them in he made them put both hands on the front of the fish where his hand is and if they didn't do it, he would stop the ride and tell their parents to make them put their hands on like he showed them.

Campbell is like is he really making me do this???? HA!  But she had her hands positioned just like he wanted them and he didn't mess around!!

Thomas wasn't tall enough to slide down the slide by himself so I got to ride with him.  I will admit I was kind of scared...I am so afraid of heights!  But, Thomas loved it!  Campbell was tall enough to do the slide by herself.

They were so sweet ALL night...see?????  Campbell really called herself keeping up with Thomas!

The last thing we did before leaving the fair was to go see the animals.  They fet the rabbits and Thomas loved it...so he has decided he would like to have his own pet rabbit !  Thats just what we need....a rabbit! That was the end of the "fun fair" for us for this year.  I loved watching them ...it was so worth it to see their little eyes light up and all of the things at the "fun fair'!!  Can't wait until next year!!

Busy Day

Today was a holiday and Steve and I worked ALL day!  We started off with the beauty shop. Steve pressure washed it and I painted the trim work in the bathroom.  Wow what a difference a  pressure washer can make.  The weather has been really cool and wet and windy today.  Tori had school and so did Thomas.  I had to go for my conference with Ceil today and she said Thomas is the model student HA!!  She said she never had to get on to him and that he was always so agreeable with everthing.  She said he knows all of his upper case letters and he only missed 2 or 3 of the lower case letters.  She said he should get to go by the DG and get a surprise and he did not forget that..we had to stop and get a surprise!

The beauty shop looks so good!  It is so clean.  I didn't get to paint the shutters but at least it is clean.  I will get to them another day.  It started raining and I am so glad I didn't start painting!

Next, we started on Steve's shop.  Boy is it a mess!!!  We worked all afternoon, but that was okay because the weather was so yucky we really couldn't do anything else.  We did make a little progress, but we have a long way to go yet!

Thomas played in Steve's boat while we worked.  He was really good and played for a long time!

Tori had a long day at school.  She left home around 8:30 and got home around 6:30...but she doesn't have to go tomorrow, that's a good thing!  She says she feels better and she looks like she does...thank God that she doesn't seem as stopped up as she was.  She is hitting the Nyquil every night HA!!  Well I guess it is back to work for me tomorrow...I will have to go to work so I can get some rest HA!!!

A Great Day for a Party

Tonight we had Pop's birthday party.  We had a dip party and Dan-Dan brought ham and Bon Jean brought taco soup.  Everything was so good and I am stuffed.  We had all kinds of dips.  I made 3 and Lynn brought several too.  They were all so good!  I love junk food suppers like we had.  I think Pop had a good birthday!

Bon Jean, Tori and Pop...wonder what Tori is doing????  Oh!!! I bet I know...she must be texting!! HA!!  She sure is intent on looking at something and I think Bon Jean is trying to read her text! HA!

Pop got some really good presents.  He got a hunting bag full of hunting stuff and he got a gift card.  Pop really likes to hunt, so I think he really liked his bag and he can buy whatever he needs with his girft card.  Pop is all set for hunting season now!

Thomas sure did enjoy Pop's party.  He had a ball playing with Hayden and Bradley.  He gets so carried away and then he starts coughing which sometimes leads to throwing up, but he didn't tonight, thank God! Tomorrow is a holiday for Steve and I WOOHOO!!  I love Monday holidays!!  I hope to get to paint the shutters on the beauty shop and maybe help Steve work on his shop some too.  I have to go have a conference with Ms. Ceil at 12:00 and then I will bring Thomas home with me for the rest of the day.  Tori is not feeling well...she doesn't have the day off.  I sure hope she feels better tomorrow!!