Happy Fall Y'All!

We had such a fun and busy October. We went up to visit Jon's family during the kid's fall break from school and the kids had a great time with their cousins. The first item on the agenda was a trip to Hee Haw's, a family farm where they have lots of fun kids activities, including a corn maze.

Both girls loved going down the "slide" over and over and over again!

The "train" ride was less than thrilling. . .

then they recovered a little thrill on the swings!

They had a ball playing in the corn. . .


and then fell apart in the corn maze! (actually, mainly Brooklyn did, although all of us except Shay ended up just throwing the towel in and walked out of the entrance!)

The day after Hee Haw's we had a family barbecue over at Jon's brother Loran's house. While there, I got a couple of cute pictures of Landon with his Grandpa:

After spending those few days with Jon's family, we headed home and then had company of our own--my dad and brother Michael came up for a visit from California! They stayed with us for 5 days and helped me out a lot while Jon went out of town on business. They played with the kids, helped me out with the baby, and my dad even helped me to tackle a couple of projects around the house that I never seemed to have time to do. Thanks Dad! Here are some pictures from their visit here:

We spent some time playing at our favorite park. . .

visited a pumpkin patch. . .

and ate at Pirate Pizza! (kind of like a Chuck-E-Cheese's)

The night before Grandpa and Michael had to leave, Michael made up and sent the kids on a treasure hunt, which they loved. The "treasure" at the end was a trip to Maggie Moo's to get ice cream cones! What a cool uncle! The kids had a lot of fun with Grandpa and Uncle Michael and were sad to see them go! Hopefully we can see them again soon.