Sweet Home Days

The boys and I decided to have an pumpkin themed party. It was great. They both played a huge part in the planning and organizing including the setup beforehand. Then during the party William was great at explaining all the games and activities. It was such a fun afternoon!

Painting Pumpkins

Pumpkin Toss

Leaf Treasure Hunt

Pin the Stem on the Pumpkin

Pumpkin Balance Walk

My favorite- Donut Eating

Having to wait while everyone got their donut was hard.

Ready Set Go

This was such a fun time and a great day weather wise. Always fun to spend an afternoon with friends.

Whirling William

A few years ago while riding bikes we gave the boys a few nicknames. William's stuck as "Whirling" because he goes all over the place like a crazy tornado. It doesn't just go for bikes.

Him and I had a chance to go for a walk/roller blade ride alone this past weekend. It was fun to just hang out and give him all of my attention.

However, he was living up to his name of whirling all over the place. He almost pulled me down as he reached for my hand to stop him from hitting the road. Yikes.

But it was all good. We chatted and held hands for much of the way. I love this sweet boy who made me a mother 8 years ago. And I love that he still loves being with his Mama. Hope it lasts so many more years.

My First Blog Award

Thanks so much to Mama Tea over at The Hmmm....schooling Mom for nominating little ol' me for an award.

Specifically the

The Liebster Blog Award started (sometime in the recent past) in Germany to encourage traffic to hidden gems of blogs with 300 followers or less. So it is an award you receive, but also an award you give (share the love kinda thing). If you receive a Liebster Blog Award you are asked to choose 3-5 other bloggers and link back to the blogger that gave you the award.

This is so much fun to be spreading the love with other bloggers. So my picks are:

Kim at Frog Creek- Although someone whom we see personally ,its always fun to see what they have been up to. So many fun adventures they have! Plus my boys love seeing pictures of their friends.

Shel at One Sweet world. Not having any girls myself I love to see what her sweet girls are up to. It's always fun to see what they are creating.

MJ at Wander Wonder Discover. I love MJ's creative pictures and her writing. Every time I visit her blog I get such a wonderful feeling and totally inspired.

You can check out more blogs that people are nominating by clicking back over to Mama Tea's page.

Sunday Smiles

shopping list in use

unexpected surprises

Today, what was suppose to be a quick stop at the library turned out to be a wonderful surprise. We stopped to pick up an audio book for our car ride and decided while we were there we would get Landon his own library card. I had been promising for months now that the "next time" we were at our branch we would get one. It would just take 2 minutes. He was so excited to have his own blue card like Mama and Will. Then he got a sticker.

Then he got a goodie bag!

I had no idea they gave out goodie bags. We were all in such awe. The best part is that Landon loves Curious George and has most of the books, but he did not have this one. How perfect was that.

It was just one of those things that makes you think, Wow! Libraries are so cool!