Low Standards

The highlight of my day today was finding 3 dollars in the wet clothes in the washing machine. I know, low standards huh?

Pumpkins

Fall Fun

2 brothers. Peas in a pod. Adorable when they aren't trying to beat each other up or steal toys.

Playing in the leaves. We have found it's best really if they wear helmets for most of their activities.

The Pumpkin Patch

Ahhhh the pumpkin patch. I'm sure that's what everybody with a blog is blogging about this month. But we went to the DISNEY WORLD of pumpkin patches yesterday. Seriously, these people have it down to a whole operation. It was like being at Adventureland. The kids had so much fun, it was totally worth it. It does cost an admission fee to do the farm activities and stuff, and I think it would have been cheaper to buy pumpkins from HyVee, but if you want the whole experience........worth it. It's called Center Grove Orchard in Cambridge.

The corn maze was huge and we actually did get lost. We finally just walked out the side of it and then back around to where the tractor pulled hayrack ride picked us up. We were there for about 3+ hours and could easily have stayed longer. I would highly recommend it!

In case you're thinking every day at our house is a day at the beach, or pumpkin patch......it's NOT. That's just when I get caught up on blogging. Because our real life isn't that interesting anymore. =) It's one big homework assignment, trip to pick-up/drop-off kids, making a dinner that kids don't want to eat, going to a meeting that I'm trying to find a babysitter for, getting up at4:45 to go get my butt kicked at Farrell's, seeing my husband for less than an hour most days while we go our separate ways and schedules. That's the stuff a reality show could be based on. Nah, we would wear the camera crew out probably.

Afternoon at the Beach

We have had such a lovely weekend. Date night on Friday night where we got to watch the season premiere of Heroes, DogTown Fest on Sat. and on Sunday I went with Quinn and my Mom to see Wicked! To top it off on the last day of break before fall term, we headed to the beach late Sunday afternoon. The boys ran and played and splashed....here they are enjoying some Iowa apples on our towel.

Built and destroyed some sand castles.

And we put together our new kite--- Luke Skywalker's X-Wing Fighter. It was really fun to fly, until I had an emergency water landing. Oooops. Beautiful end to a great weekend.

DogTown Fest

Our neighborhood was host to a street festival on Saturday. It's called DogTown Fest in honor of the newly reclaimed moniker for the area surrounding Drake University. We had a booth there for Central Iowa Music Lab (CIML) but more importantly for Milo....there was face painting. He got a basilisk.

I think Chad was only rubbing his face here....or maybe he was watching Quinn climb into the sumo suit.

Quinn had so much fun doing this, he wrestled a few different times. And by wrestled I mean rolled around on the ground like the mean girl Veruca in Willy Wonka, after she was blown up like a blueberry.

This is Quinn and a classmate.

The highlight for Jonas was probably a toss up between this Tootsie Pop and clapping for Dad when he played guitar at Mars Cafe. We had a lot of fun and were really glad that home was just around the corner when it was time to head there.

Pretty Party Things

Well, better late than never. This was from a week or two ago when I hosted a Toy Swap & Cocktail Party.

And it was so much fun. I think I should have a party once a year just so I get to use my giant Pampered Chef serving platter. And eat fancy cheese with toothpicks.

I bought these super awesome napkins the last time I was at IKEA. just so I could throw a party to use them.

We stayed up too late, drank a lot of wine.... Jonas did his first Tarot reading. Not a lot of toys got swapped....but oh well.