Life in Preschool!

Today was parent teacher conference's for Trevor and Kaylee, I know, already do them in pre-school.

I always knew that they were bright children, but now I have proof. They both are doing wonderful in school and have really come into their own. They are learning so much each day and are like little sponges, they absorb EVERYTHING.

I am so proud of both them. But also very sad that they are growing up so quickly. Before long it will be college exams I will be gloating over. :0)

So cute!

Isn't this idea super cute? I am definately going to do something similar to this for Christmas this year, as we host Christmas dinner here each year! I am so excited!

Fun at the Pumpkin Patch!

What a fun day we had. We braved the 30 mile an hour winds and blowing Kansas dust to enjoy the pumpkin patch! As it has rained every weekend in October and is supposed to start again today (Sunday), this was going to be our best shot at staying dry!

I think I picked the three best sunflowers in the patch, what do you think?

There were a lot of fun activities for the kids to do, I tried and tried to get Kaylee to look at me, but being the stubborn little thing that she is, this is the best I could get.


Grammie went along with us! There were so many pumpkins to choose from. So colorful and nice. They had white, green, striped a really neat red orange color and the normal orange ones. The kids had a blast roaming through and finding their perfect pumpkin.

This one is Isaiah's treasured pumpkin. He would not part with it once he found the one he wanted. I even had to put him in the wagon to ride along with it, I think he thought we might put it back..lol. It was too cute.

We enjoyed a hayrack ride through the ten acre pumpkin patch, pulled by two beautiful Belgian horses. Below is a picture of the horses and the man who was manning the reigns.

This haybale slide was a real hit with the kids as well. Trev thoroughly enjoyed it.

Enjoying the hayrack ride.

We even attempted the 7 acre corn maze. We spent over an hour in there and were only halfway through, and the kids were getting very tired and cranky. We saw a perfect spot to exit to the road, so we made a break for it. I know, we cheated, but with three cranky kids and me having been stung in the inside part of my ear by a bee, and being slapped in the face constantly by blowing corn stalks, it wasn't fun any longer..sigh. We were more than happy to depart and go and find our pumpkins! I swear I will never attempt another maze without someone who has a good sense of direction and can read the silly maze map they give you, as I am geographically and map challenged when it comes to mazes.

All in all though it was a very fun day, the kids were asleep shortly after getting into the vehicle and slept the whole way home. They, along with my MIL and I were exhausted.


This is an ariel view of the maze, as you can see it is quite large. Isn't it just amazing that someone can go in and cut a pattern out of feed like this? We made our great escape out of the maze to the road on the upper right hand corner on the pic. Which then we had to walk all the way back to the patch which is the very bottom of the pic, just below the barn that is cut off there. But it was well worth it, as we may have still been there today trying to find our way out. haha.

What the Hail?

This is what was happening in Northern Kansas about 20 minutes ago, at 4:30 on Friday afternoon. And this is supposed to be fall right? Figures since we JUST got a new roof put on from the spring hail storm we had.

On our back deck as it was beginning!

Out the front door in the middle of the storm.

The back deck at the end of the storm!

The front sidewalk and lawn. And it's only 64 degrees here right now.

Only in Kansas!

The Costumes have been chosen!!

Thanks to my favorite shopping spot..whooot whoot to Target, the two oldest have their halloween costumes. What a great selection they had to choose from.

Trevor will be this pirate! Arrrrr.

Kaylee chose this pretty princess one! I love the Red!

Gotta Love Kids!

Today has been one of those days! It started out normal enough, but kabammm..it all hit at once!

First of all I made the terrible mistake of leaving my pink blush fingernail polish sitting on the coffee table last night when I went to bed exhausted. I ALWAYS make sure the lid is on tight, but I tell ya, A boy of almost two has super powers!!! Whilst I was fixing milk cups and getting breakfast dished up, my littel he-man proceeded to get the bottle open and paint his pj's and hands, and when I was summoned to "mommy, come and see what YOUR SON did" by my three year old drama queen, who loves nothing more than to see her brothers get into trouble, the said he-man proceeds to crawl away as fast as he can, painting the carpet with each little pat of his slimey hands..boy, was that a mess. I am so glad we didn't decide to get new carpet yet..wheeew. I will say, fingernail polish will come out of carpet with enough fingernail polish remover, I don't think I would have attempted it on lighter, newer carpet though. A half a bottle later and few handfuls of cotton pads, the mess was cleaned up!!


While recovering from that mess, miss tattle on everyone proceeded to get into the bath wash and paint the bathroom floor with it! If that wasn't a slippery mess. At this point, I am ready to contact Ebay about the sale of some children..haha.(would never really do that, as good as it sounds some days..ha ha). Doubt if anyone would pay my reserve price of a million a piece. ;-)


Then I get a call from preschool, my four year old has found a new best friend, his Penis. (shaking head and covering eyes). We have battled this obsession for a few weeks now. Well now is he not only satisfied with his own, he wants to see what others look like. I guess to compare and see if his measures up..haha. Lord help me. He asked a boy to see his and when he showed him, the teacher called me to come and get him. Please someone out there, tell me this is just a phase all little boys go through. Eyeyeyeyeye.


The day continued to become more and more trying and I won't bore you with all the details..but believe me, I hope that full moon is gone tonight and I don't have to deal with another day like this one.

I wouldn't trade em for the world, but a nice vacation in a crazy house might be on my horizon..ha ha. Thank goodness the good out weighs the bad most days.

Oh what fun a big rock can be!

Tom and I took the kids to Mushroom State Park at Kanopolis Lake over the weekend. It had rained and Tom got some much needed time off work to spend with the kids and I.


These rocks are amazing, the sheer size of some of them just sitting in the middle of a meadow is really intriguing. This one was about 7 foot tall and around 8 foot wide. Trevor climbed to the top of it and scared the tar out of me..shew...glad he made it down safely.

This was the tallest of the rocks, it was at least 12 foot tall. It is neat to see how it looks like a mushroom head, perched upon its stem.

We had such a great time. It is amazing how much fun climbing on big rocks can be for little kids..*giggle*.

Isaiah had a blast climbing through the big hole on one of the rocks, he was rather upset when we decided to move further down the trail to the bigger rocks.

Trevor and Kaylee climbed on every rock within site. They are quite the climbers.

Tom is 6' 6", so that gives you an idea of how tall the rocks are. This was a really unique one and was one of the tallest ones.

It's so funny to see how the trees just grow up around the rocks and push them around to spread their roots. Isn't nature amazing?? I love this pic of Kaylee, taking in all the scenery.

Trevor was "King of the Rock", not sure what his sign is there..lol. The rock behind him was at least 12 foot tall. It looks little with him standing on a rock in front of it.

This was the highlight of the rocks, they loved climbing through the "cave" as they called it. Then it was called a doughnut hole once and the giggles started. It was a game to crawl through, jump down and see who could run the fastest back to the other side to climb up again. Such fun.

Sorry the pictures are kinda fuzzy and cloudy looking. Something happened to my Camera that day, I think it might have had some help falling from the van when we got out, and I just recieved it's replacement today, so pics should be better in the future. ;0).