Sunday, October 31, 2010

Halloween 2010

This year, Chase is Harry Potter, Ryder is a gorilla, (he refused to wear the mask making it hard for everyone to know what he was, so stubborn!) and Ashtyn is a dinosaur.

With our friends, Dorothy and combat soldier.




We stopped at a house that had left out candy. The note said, "take only 2 please." Chase made sure that everyone only got 2.

Ashtyn did a good job keeping up with her brothers. They all decorated white pillow cases for to carry their treats in and by the end of the evening, Ashtyn's was so heavy that she had to sling it over her shoulder. It was funny to see her swing it over her shoulder after leaving someone's door.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

The Tae Kwon Do Kid

Ryder just started Tae Kwon Do and he loves it, his teacher says he is a natural.

Ashtyn trying to do Tae Kwon Do too.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Fun at the Pumpkin Farm

We had so much fun at the pumpkin farm today! The farm that we went to had lots of activities for the kids and we made sure to do them all...



One of our first stops was at the hay barn. The kids were able to climb up on hay bales and then jump into the hay. (Ashtyn did not jump, too scary for her.)

Some sort of animal swing made out of tires.



Next was the corn pit. I never knew rolling around in corn could be so fun.

And back to the hay barn, ready... go!

It took me a couple takes but I finally got some one in the air.

They have this pool for the ducks to race on. Periodically throughout the day they will have a duck race. When I took this picture the ducks were not racing but later we caught the end of a race and about 5 ducks raced and the "Oregon Duck" won. Boo! I didn't catch all of the duck's names but one of the other one's was "Aflec".

Now we're at the hay maze. It was pretty a pretty big one with 2 stories! I had a hard time keeping up with Ashtyn, who was trying to keep up with her brothers.

Every farm must have a tractor, this one is Farmer Ben's first tractor.



Finally the pumpkin patch to end the day! It took a while to find the right pumpkins. Chase had to have this huge one. Luckily for me Ashtyn and Ryder were OK with the smaller ones.