Sweet 16

Just wanted to drop a quick post to let everyone know that today is my baby sister's 16th birthday! She's growing up so fast. I still remember the day we brought her home from the hosptial. She was so tiny and red. Now she's 16 and a sophomore in high school, time flies! Were celebrating with a birthday party at Chuck E Cheese tonight. Just family and a few close friends.

Pumpkin Patch

Hi all. We went to the pumpkin patch this past weekend. I think a good time was had by all. It's about a 30 minute drive down there and then we stayed for a couple of hours. There was a large group of us this time. Us and lots of friends-Sean, Kristy, Hailey, Kevin, Erin, Ali and Tanner. Kristy and Kevins dad Jim and his wife Julie joined us for a little while. Poor Tanner, he was the only boy! The kids (except Keira) had a blast playing on the large straw pile. They enjoyed climbing all the way to the top. Then they got to play on the play equipment for a little while. After that we all rode on the hay wagon back to the pumpkin patch! With 5 under 5 we were looking for "baby" pumpkins, we found some of decent smallness and then rode back to the front. The ride to the patch was much more comfortable but it was still fun. After that we let everyone ride a pony. Keira was hesitant at first but after she saw everyone else do it she was willing to try and had a good time. Next they did the pumpkin train, Keira and Ali both chickened out on this one. After that we went up to the nursery and they all got to pick out a very tiny pumkin and ghourd. Next we watched the pumpkin sling shot and last but not least we went and saw the baby sheep and bunny rabbits. All in all it was a very good day, no major break downs which in itself is pretty remarkable with all the small kids. The only low point was that when we got home we realized that Keira had left her tiny pumpkin and ghourd at the patch somewhere. I guess she just wanted to make some other little kid as happy as her!