Berry Patch Farms, take III

I was adamant that we take the kids to Berry Patch Farms that weekend.  Normally I wouldn’t have planned so much for one weekend, but with all that we had going on in October, this ended up being the only time that I could take him, and I really wanted a picture of him with the pumpkin that I had gotten the previous two years.  When we pulled into the parking lot I told Sandy that if all we did was take a picture of him next to that pumpkin I’d be happy.  When the picture was done (five minutes after we arrived) I turned to her and said, “OK, we can go now.”  She laughed. 

Since I have already posted the picture of him next to the pumpkin, here is one of him and Hannah. 

I think this picture is cool. 

Of course we HAD to ride the tractor… LIKE 3 times!  I didn’t mind though.  I love to see how excited he gets at things like this. 

Fall festivals and pumpkin patches

I mentioned in my last post that we had a party on the 18th at our house.  Gerry, Sandy, and Hannah came down from Chicago to celebrate with us.  We had a grand time, and James still misses little Miss Hannah Rose.  The two of them hit it off and were inseparable the whole weekend. 

While they were here we went out for a fun Mexican fiesta with the Newton’s and Mark McDonald (who ventured in from New Mexico) and a good time was had by all.  We attended the fall pumpkin patch in our neighborhood and Hannah and James got to jump on jumpies, ride a hayride, bob for duckies, and get their face painted, among other things. 

Spidey and Tinkerbell were quite the couple, I must say.

Yard of the Month

Our neighborhood has over 1700 homes in it.  Within Legacy Park there are actually 11 or so different subdivisions that make up those 1700 plus homes.  Each month the HOA picks a yard in each subdivision that is Yard of the Month.  We have lived in our house for almost four years now and have never come anywhere near getting yard of the month.  That is until this Halloween. 

Two April’s ago (18 plus months ago) we bought 17 azalea’s to plant in the front yard, among other plants and shubbery.  Not two months after that we were hit with a rather large drought here in the south.  Because our plants were more than a month old, we did not qualify for the landscaping exemption during the water ban.  Needless to say, the money that we just shelled out to Home Depot went right down the drain and all of our plants died a miserable death. 

I have been asking Jim, our designated lawn man, to please pull those dead plants out of our front yard for at least a year.  And at least a year has gone by where he says something to the effect of, “Nah… I’m hoping that they’ll come back.”  Unfortunately, he’s been wrong so far. 

BUT- all that being said, those dead plants did wonders for our Halloween decor this year.  Knowing that we were having a party at our house on the 18th, I told Jim that he could spend a little bit extra on outside decor.  This is what it looked like when he was done. 

He and James were quite proud when we came home one day and saw this in our yard.