Pumpkin Patch

This is well past due but finally...

This year we went to the Pumpkin Patch during the week, Oct. 17 a Thursday and I would say as a whole it was less crowded even though Omaha schools did not have school.  We were unsure how the crowd would be and how the weather would be.  The weather was ok until the sun went downthen it started to get pretty cold.  The week before the boys were not feeling well but felt pretty good the day of.  Ella on the other hand still wasn't feeling well, poor thing!  Something new they did and surprised Jared and us is they road the ponies.  When we go home the boys LOVE the animals but from a distance, they don't like to get up and pet them and be too close for the most part.  At the farm Levi has a miniature horse and anytime we try and put the boys on it they want no party of it.  But today at the patch they wanted to ride the horses so we did and they loved it until....Landon's horse sneezed and shook and scared him, he wanted off.  The good news is he got back on it so that was good.  We did the normal stuff jumpy pillows, play groud area, tractor rides, etc.  Something new was we took a hayrack ride out to the field to the pumpkins, even though we knew we were not picking out pumpkins.  The boys love tractors and such so we thought the ride out there would be fun and it was but it was really cold and windy.  After that we went down the slides with the potatoe sacks under us and the LOVED it I mean LOVED it they wanted to do that all day and we could of but was getting dark and colder and we had more to do.  All in all the trip was good, boys had a great time. 

Tristan was wavinghere but looks like he is on a bucking bull and trying to hang on for 7 seconds.

Landon's face is priceless!

Landon and daddy with mommy and Tristan in the back and Allie behind us

I absolutely LOVE this picture...makes me smile and tells how much fun we are having.  Makes you realize the little things are so important in life, to have fun while they last because before you know it this day will be done.

Color, Color and more Color

This past weekend Jared and I did a Color Run in Sioux City, it was a lot of fun.  We ran it with Tara, Dave (Jared sister and husband), Brandon and Cassie(my nephew and his finance).  It was a 5K (3.2 miles) and we tried to stay together for the most part.  Tara and Dave got our outfits, tutu's, wigs, bracelets, and headbands.  I included a link to the Sioux City Journal as we made the front page, sorta funny sorta embarrassing:).  I will try and get more pictures up but most were taken on Tara's camera.  Janet (Jared's mom) was kind enough to watch the kids for us, which was really nice.  Jared had a very busy weekend at work so he had to hurry after the race but us others stuck around and enjoyed the after party.  They had a stage with dancing and contest and threw out a lot of FREE stuff!  We even got some color to take home for the kids to get colored if they wanted to.  At first they were all unsure but after a little bit they decided it would be fun. We had a fun weekend with family in town but a busy one, the boys were exhausted last night asleep by 8:00.

Tara and I before the after party:)

Brandon and Cassie

Cousins enjoying snack

snapchat of Cassie and the boys:)

http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/photos-color-me-rad-run-in-sioux-city/article_68817374-1a71-5cf7-be44-e1671de82cbe.html