Family Skate Night

October 26, 2008 - Sunday - Family Fun Night for our church was at the roller skating rink. The kids get to wear their Halloween costumes and we bring finger foods. We have the whole rink to ourselves. Nathan did want to try to skate. He has tried before. He actually went around about 3-4 times with help from us. He ended up doing pretty good. Brittany did well herself...but it is hard to get good at skating when we only go about twice a year. Ha! Her school has skate night about once a month, maybe this year we will go more.
There was a costume contest and Brittany (a Bat) won 3rd place for Kindergarten-2nd graders. In Nathan's group Wonder Women, pirate and Dorothy beat out Spiderman (Nathan) and Batman (Scott). All the kids walked away with some yummy candy in their bags. It was a fun night.

Nathan's 4th Birthday Party

October 25, 2008 - Saturday - Weeks ago I had planned Nathan's party for outdoors. Well, mother nature decided to bring some rain. My alternative was to have the party here at our house. The weather reports were showing the rain to stop sometime in the morning....so the party location was up in the air until about 11am we could tell the rain was going to move out. Man, I was in a tezzy....finally a decision made...we could have the party as planned. Yeah! Thank you God for anwering my prayers.
We had Nathan's party at "Mazie Adventure" in High Point. Nathan just LOVES rocks and gems. He picks them up anywhere we are and puts a few in his pockets or says "Here Mom, can you keep this for me?". So, Gem Mining at the Maize Adventure was a blast for Nathan and his friends. After gem mining we had Frog Cake and ice cream, opened presents and then they got to jump on a large inflatable "pillow". They really enjoyed jumping around and having sand in their toes. Nathan had a great time and I think all the kids and adults did too. The weather turned out great and it was so nice to be outside. There was so much area for the kids to run around.
After the party we walked up to the pumpkin patch and they had a corn kernel bin. Brittany and Nathan got to take their shoes off and play. It was a fun day!

Nathan's 4th Birthday

October 24, 2008, Friday - Today is Nathan's 4th Birthday - Yeah!!!! I took a special treat to his preschool class this morning. His birthday party theme is FROGS. So I made a frog face out of a Nutter Butter cookie. The kids enjoyed them. I measured Nathan this morning and he has grown 1 inch since 9-3-08. He is growing up. Nathan - you are so precious to us. Mommy and Daddy hope that you have a super fun day today. We love you!

October 18, 2008, Saturday - We spent the weekend at the lake. It was cold on Sat. high about 59 and so we decided to find something to do around the area. We ended up going to a Apple Harvest Festival in Bedford, VA. We had a lot of fun. The kids got to play on some bouncy things. There were craft vendors and yummy food. We had hot dogs and nachos for lunch. We had never been to an apple orchard before. We all picked out a apple to try and then posed for some pictures. It was a fun afternoon.

Playin' in the Park

October 15, 2008, Wednesday - After preschool Nathan and I enjoyed the great outside weather. Today's high is suppose to be 86 degrees. Wow - this feels like summer, not fall. But we're not complaining. Nathan had fun on the slides and selling me movie tickets (mulch) to watch "Max and Ruby" on the playground hut.

Pickin' Pumpkins

October 14, 2008, Tuesday - Today Nathan and I went to the Pumpkin Patch with our MOPS group. We had a great time. Nathan heard a Halloween story, then we took a hayride and then he got to pick out a pumpkin. The weather was great and he liked trying to find the biggest pumpkin.Brittany's Kindergarten class last year went to a pumpkin patch for a field trip. This year they are not going to a pumpkin patch. So, after school Nathan and I took Brittany to the patch for her to pick out a little pumpkin and for us to pick out our family pumpkin.

Royal Birthday Party

October 11, 2008, Saturday - Brittany and I went to her friend, Macie's birthday party. She was given the royal treatment. They got dressed up in princess dresses, hair pieces put in, nails done and glitter eye shadow. She got to walk down a runway and model, eat Ariel birthday cake, do the Cha-Cha Slide, play a game and even make a princess wand. She had a great time! All the kids were treated like royalty.

Chick-fil-A Night

October 7, 2008, Tuesday - Well, our Family Fun Night at Chick-fil-A was very fun for the kids. Chad was at a training session all week and so Nathan was with us this time for dance and then dinner after. Normally Chad and Nathan do something together while Brittany and I do dance and dinner. This night they had a petting zoo for the kids. They both loved holding and petting the bunnies. And they were big bunnies. Nathan was not scared at all to feed the llama from his hand and the sheep and goats. He also picked up the turtle and they both touched the hedgehog that I was able to catch. He was fast and prickly. We stayed away from the snake and the ferrets were sleeping. The kids had a great time.

36th Annual Asheboro Fall Festival

October 4, 2008 Saturday- Ever since I can remember the Asheboro Fall Festival has been a family tradition for us. Mom and Dad used to have a booth there and were in to lapidary (an artisan who practices the craft of working, forming and finishing stone, mineral, gemstones into functional and/or decorative, even wearable, items). They sold their polished gems and stones that they made into belt buckles and necklaces and pins. My grandparents, who lived in Florida at the time, would come up every year for this fall festival. This year we all went and my aunt from Texas was here and my aunt and uncle from Weaverville came to it. It was a nice fall day for this event. The kids were not in strollers this time. They walked around for a little over an hour and then we split up and Chad took them to a little ride and bouncey area for kids and then we meet back at Mom's.
Nearly 100,000 people attend the Asheboro Fall Festival annually

Family Fun Night

September 30, 2008, Tuesday - We love Chick-fil-A! And every Tuesday night after Brittany has dance class (ballet & tap) we head to the Chick-fil-A Family Fun Night. If you haven't been I highly recommend it. They give a discount on the kid's meals and then they also have an activity for the kids. The activity for tonight was Princess Night. Nathan got to enjoy the activities too. They made a bookmark for the craft. They had run out of the tiaras, but that was OK. The kids had a lot of fun.

Church Picnic

September 28, 2008, Sunday - The kids and I went to an "Old Fashioned Picnic in a New Fashioned Way" at a local park that our church put on. There was an "Old Fashioned Pie Judging", cookout and games and of course the playground. There was lots of yummy food to eat. The kids loved playing on the playground and seeing their friends. You may ask, Where was Chad? Well, he was at the vet with Tona, our 12 year old dachshund. We thought she had a broken front right leg, but they took x-rays and did not find anything. They gave us some pain medicine to give her and said she should be doing better in 2-3 days. She is doing better and moving around more.