Pumpkin Patch

Last weekend the kids & I went to the Woodcrest pumpkin patch in Lumberton with both sets of their grandparents.

 

We visited the face painting booth where Addy chose a black cat.

 

And Alex chose a green monster. (That looks more like a green frog!)

 

The kids & I went on a hayride.

 

And then they rode the train.

 

They played ring toss.

 

And Addy even got one around a pumpkin!

 

Addy bowled

 

And they both played pumpkin toss.

 

And we went to the country store where Alex got a monster cookie & Addy got a dragon beanie baby.

 

Aren't these two siblings so so sweet!

 

 

 

On Friday, Alex & I met some friends at the St. Catherine's pumpkin patch here in Sienna.

 

 

 

 

Baby, It's Cold Outside...

Even though the first official day of winter is still 2 weeks away, it sure feels like winter outside! Which I'm LOVING!!! So I guess it's time to take down our Fall Fun for the Family list & put up our Winter Wonderland Wishes list.

This is Addy's first year of full day school. And I didn't realize how "restricting" school would be, lol. So because of school, most of our activites had to be done either on the weekends or with just me & Alex. And even though we did a lot of activities, we didn't get to do as much as we wanted to because of Addy's injured knee.

But here is what we did get to do....

go to the zoo

make fall crafts

have lunch with daddy

draw, paint & color (Addy's artwork)

go trick or treating

spin art
go to the Stomping Grounds

go to The Glazery (Addy painted a cat statue & made it a tiger!)

have a playdate with our cousins

go to a Halloween festival

make Rice Krispie treats

take a Gymboree class

go to Bounce Zone

get our faces painted

carve & paint pumpkins

play hopscotch

go to Gattitown (Alex stuffing his face, lol)

go to Dewberry Farms

make cookies

go to the library

& have a playdate with Clay

So as you can see, we did accomplish a lot!

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And here is our new list of fun things to do this winter....

decorate the Christmas tree

string popcorn garland

drive around & look at Christmas lights

open presents

ride the Polar Express train

go to the zoo

Children's museum

make ornaments

Christmas crafts

make cookies for Santa

visit grandparents

play with cousins

play date with friends

go ice skating

drink hot chocolate

build a fire in the fireplace

read Christmas stories

go to Stomping Grounds

celebrate New Years

watch Christmas movies

sing Christmas carols

go to the library

paint

color

make Valentine's cards

make Valentine crafts

I'm also going to add these to our list because I'm hoping it snows...

play in the snow

make a snowman

have a snowball fight

Sienna Harvest Festival

On Saturday evening I took the kids to the Sienna Harvest Festival. 

There was a fire truck & a police car that the kids could get in & look at. Alex was interested in them but he said he was "too little" to climb inside.

Cute idea- They had sandboxes filled with deer corn instead of sand.

Alex played the Cookie Walk & won a cookie on the first round! Here he is checking out his apple cookie.

fishing for candy

Since fishing doesn't involve walking, Addy got to play too.

ring toss

Alex won a bag of candy playing ring toss, but he threw it back in the bucket & grabbed a sucker instead! That boy LOVES suckers!

at the pumpkin patch

Addy looking for her pumpkin

Alex went around collecting all the pumpkins he could find & brought them to this hay bale. I count 15!

riding the train

Fall Fun for the Family

We had so much fun with our 101 Summer Activities list that I decided to make one for the fall. (Matter of fact, I think this is going to be a new Strickland tradition!) I'm calling it our Fall Fun for the Family! Alex & I will do some of these things with just the two of us but I really want the whole family to do as much of these activities together as we can. So that means that we're going to have some very busy weekends!

And here is our list:
Paint
Go to the zoo
Go to the Stomping Grounds
Go trick or treating
Go to Bounce Zone
Go to the Showboat Drive In
Go to the Bayou Wildlife Park
Paint our faces
Go to the movies
Make fall crafts
Go to the library
Go to Dewberry Farms
Make spin art
Go to the Children's Museum
Color
Go to the Glazery
Take a class at Gymboree
Play with our cousins
Go to the Matt Family Orchard
Attend a fall festival
Go to a pumpkin patch
Make rice krispie treats
Have lunch with Daddy
Carve pumpkins
Go to TGR Exotics
Go to a Gymtex class
Play hopscotch
Make cookies
Paint pumpkins
Make cupcakes
Go to Gattitown
Playdate with Clay
Go to Chuck E Cheese
Go to the Ft. Bend County Fair - (We had to miss the fair because of Addy's knee.)

It's (Almost) Fall Ya'll

Fall is my favorite time of the year. I love the cooler weather, fall smells (cinnamon & pumpkin, ummm), the food (stew, chicken & dumplings, gumbo, taco soup & chili), football games, pumpkin patches, hayrides & fall festivals. So even though it's not anywhere close to cool outside, I'm pretending that it's fall already. I've put all my fall decorations out & I'm burning my fall scented candles. So hurry up fall & make your appearance. I'm READY!

I still need to make a fall wreath though.

I better go check Pinterst for ideas, lol!