Advent Wreath

It has been busy and I have been lax in my blog posts. So, in my normal style I am going to inundate you with a bunch of random things that have been going on lately. If your lucky, I might even throw in a comma or two in my run on sentences!

The girl and I went to the advent wreath making class at church with some friends. It was fun and the girls made the wreaths for their families. I think the girl did a pretty good job. Note to self, put away the Thanksgiving decorations.

Girl Scout Tea

The girl and I went to a Girl Scout tea. It was very cute. They put on a nice event and the girl and her friends had fun.

The Pumpkin Patch

A friend called us this week and asked if we wanted to go to a local pumpkin patch. This particular patch has a cannon that shoots pumpkins. Well, since hubby is all boy, the answer was "YES".

Here are pics of the boy and girl shooting pumpkins. It was louder than I expected. This is the field they shot at. If you look closely you can see a couple of targets. The most exciting one being the old truck in the background. The boy hit it several times, including making it in the open door. The girl also hit the targets/truck several times

After the pumpkin cannon, we went on a hayride through the corn fields. It was cute, there were creatures everywhere. Including the Mum Butterfly garden. We all had a great time. Though, it did make us miss the annual hayride on Aunt M's farm.

The Last Week

I realized today that we haven't blogged with updates on what the kids are doing. It has been a busy couple of weeks. Our Sundays start fairly early. The boy had football from 9-11 in the morning. He is on the Patriots this season. One season, he hopes to be on the Steelers.

Pre game practice.

Yesterday, I took the kids to a pumpkin patch about a mile from our house that had a bunch of inflatable jumpers. They had a good time.

Later that day, the girl had a brownie meeting with some sorority sisters at a local university. It was a good fit, the college girls talked about bullying and peer pressure. The little girls were very engaged with the sorority sisters.


Last Saturday, we took the kids to the beach, since it was in the high 80's at our house. You can see they had to wear jackets, as the temperature was in the low fifties at the beach. Once the marine layer burned off, it was gorgeous. they got in the water. The girl boogie boarded (big surprise) and the boy played with a friend he made at the beach. If you look closely, you can see the boat race the kids are watching. Soon after the kids got in the water a pod of dolphins came by.

This is the kids before we went to the beach. As you can see by the boy's lack of attire, it was a warm morning.

After lunch, we hung out by the marina and watched the boats. They had a regalia race. The spinnakers were so pretty. They all had different colors.

National Day of Play

It is National Day of Play and 85 degrees outside. So, what are my kids doing? I guess they didn't get the memo.

Hey, at least the boy is reading outside.

Apple Picking

We took the kids apple picking at an orchard about 45 minutes away. We had a great time! We picked a bunch of organic fuji and gala apples. They were delicious. The boy ate three before we left the field.

Once the apples were picked, we sat down at a table in the orchard that had a cute checkers board. The girl and her Dad played a game of checkers while the boy at apples.

After apple picking we decided to head to the wharf (which was a few minutes away) to see the seals and eat lunch. We all had a good time watching the seals and the fishermen fishing. One of the fishermen was saying the challenge was getting the fish out of the water before a seal came and ate it off. Grandfather, you should recognize this place. It is where the girl jumped into your arms after hearing the "barking seals" when she was a toddler.

A Sunny Sunday

It was a nice day, so we decided to take the kids to the beach. Since the ocean is cold, they usually come out of the water a bright shade of pink. Thankfully, Costco had a special last week on wetsuits and they were even in the kids sizes. The girl boarded to her heart's content and the boy wandered out further into the waves than he has ever been. Even hubby got into the action, borrowing the girl's board to boogie in the waves. You can thank me later for not sharing those pictures :).

After they got out of the water hubby and the kids dug for sand crabs. They found some huge ones and brought them over to me to share. They are really ugly looking things. Of course, the girl asked a million questions about their anatomy. So, when we got home we had to read about them on the internet. I don't know who was more fascinated, her or her Dad.

We ended the day on the free Marina Shuttle. It is a boat that stops off at different places and restaurants on the marina. You can ride it as long as you want. The kids had fun watching the sea lions that came up to the side of the boat. The sea lions would also go right up to the paddle boarders in the marina and scare them.

We hope everyone on the East Coast is doing well and has no damage from the severe weather.