Check another item off the list...the Halloween Birthday Party!

For over a month I have promised a birthday party to the Gap Cowboy. After being so busy and really not feeling like I wanted to deal with the mess we did it. I had him invite the boys from his Kindergarten class. It was hard to decide who and how to invite. The list was long of who we wanted to come but I had to be selective because how many Kindergartners could I really handle? So I asked Jayson who he wanted to come and he named off some boys in his class. It then was decided to invite the boys in his class and a couple neighbor boys he played with all summer.
However, week after week went by and finally he came home one day and announced that he had told his friends at school he was going to have a birthday party. It was official, it was going to happen whether I wanted the mess or not!
It was actually rather fun, and since I kept the group down it was not an overload on me. Our unfinished basement provided the perfect backdrop for a spooky Halloween party! Glad it is over onto the next item on the check list!

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We Made it to the Pumpkin Patch!!!

It only took us three weekends but we finally made it. We woke up Saturday determined that rain, snow, sleet, or hail, we would be at the pumpkin patch having the time of our life..... Well we almost had rain but it cleared by the time we got there and it was an enjoyable time for all. The Gap Cowboy took us on a wild forest hike but was quite enjoyable for all and Mr. C walked his little legs off. This is leg one of our sprint to the finish. We will get all our traditions in even if I am tired and exhausted November 1st!

I love how the Gap Cowboy is always looking out for his brother!

Choosing our little pumpkins, don't worry the boys already some very large ones at home!

Same Pumpkin Patch, same pose, just a different angle....
Mr. C would not look over so we had to adjust this year!

Cute!

Mr. C loved watching the geese! They were so loud!

On our hike into the scary forest.

"hmm...Are we lost??"

It was so fun to see Mr. C big enough this year to enjoy the patch fun!
He was a fan of the train, he got two rides!

Fan of the horse too. He wasn't scared at all.
He needs to work on his riding skills though!

Sliding off! Don't worry mom is right there walking next to him...yes those are my legs with the boots on! ; )

In his element! He is the "Gap Cowboy" after all!

Balloon fun with the clowns...the fishing pole with a fish!

Face painting...Mr. C actually held perfectly still!

Our cute little "pumpkin!"

Farm Girl Married to The Enemy...And My Boys!

I am a farm girl, and I know of the story of the evil middle man that gets rich off the poor farmer. Well I am married to the "middle" man, however, this middle man is not necessarily the farmer's enemy but I feel he has done an awesome job helping his farmers this year! As a daughter of a farmer I am so proud of his effort even if they ended up not helping him, he took one for the farmers. Here's the story...

Harvest this year has not been nice to any farmer across the board, with us fasting for dad to get his spuds out of the ground with a frost and snow situation and then our poor farmers here with all the rain, snow, and clouds, our poor farmers are so behind on harvest. My good husband took wet soybeans for the farmers hoping it wouldn't bite him in the end but it did. Over the weekend he had a bean train and it failed for the first time in this facilities history, due to the moisture. All is well though because the extreme moisture circumstance has left his company no choice but help the farmer and take one for the farmer.

Then the sun showed up with a bit of wind after wet...wet...wet. Yesterday I got a call from a friend and she told me I had to come and look at how many trucks were at Cargill. They were lined up on the highway even...my hubby, at a Manager's title became traffic controller and started to move the line two by two to the pit. Still the line was so long with all his efforts of directing traffic and all hands on deck inside at the pits and scales. When he finally go home last night around 11:00 he reported they had dumped 272 trucks, 3/4s of them after 3:00 p.m. Cargill usually shuts trucks off at 8:00 p.m. and the trucks are left sitting over night in line but he made his whole crew stay until every last truck was dumped just for the farmer!
We are so proud of all his hard work and taking one for the farmer this harvest, it isn't even over yet....they haven't even gotten to their corn and this is soooo late for them!

I think Hubby's work looks like something off the Wizard of OZ (OZ itself!)!

Trucks and more trucks, and these are bad pics they don't even show the half of it!

My Boys...

My boys are just the cutest and it is so fun to be a mom of boys. Their smile and love are contagious and they just love and live life to the fullest!

The Gap Cowboy and Mr. C are so fun to watch! Enjoy these photos of some fun family down time outside in the wet/cold playing with the Cowboy's new remote control Gator.

Watch out! The Gap Cowboy is behind the wheel!

My boys are so much like their dad! I love it!

Mr. C is such a fast little cutie, it is hard to snap a picture of this little speedie!

P.S.

So sorry I have not been updating my blog. Life has been a little busy as of late and I finally sat down determined to not let anything get in my way to post on my blog and review your blogs. I missed each of you. As you can tell by my last post I have been so busy...thus Mr. C into mischief! I need to track down pictures to show you all the missionary work that is happening here. I have been busy with wonderful things, a wedding last weekend and baptisms. Although we had so much help, everyone in the Branch really stepped up and helped so much...a couple in particular, I still have been running running running! The missionaries have been so busy, we baptized 5 on Sunday and 3 more to come all within a months time. I feel bad because not only have I neglected my blog but I have neglected a lot of fun family things we normally do too....so I will push to the finish and try to get my kids to a pumpkin patch, (YES I haven't even gotten my kids to a pumpkin patch yet!) and finally have a Birthday party for the Gap Cowboy (Yes, it has almost been a month) and all other fun activities that we normally do this time of year! It will all fit within a weeks time but hey, we will get them done! So stay tuned!

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No words necessary...BTW this was just the first of a series of creatively rascal events all within an hours time!

Making 6 look GOOD!

The Gap Cowboy just celebrated his 6th birthday! It was such a fun time. I was so brave this year and made the cake myself. I didn't do so good but he asked for a cake that looked like Mr. C's cake. If any of you remember Mr. C's cake was Lightening McQueen and a baker made it. Well here in the rural areas of the Midwest the bakers just laughed at me because it wasn't a white with rose trim wedding cake. I quickly discovered that I would have to tap my inner baker and a do it myself. Well I have a car cake tin so I planned to use the...the night before though the Gap Cowboy informed me that he no longer wanted a car but a green pick-up! So I became inventive and still used the car tin and cut the cake with a knife to shape into a pick-up. I felt like the "Ace of Cakes" but my product didn't turn out like the Ace's cakes! Gosh, next year I think I will try harder to convince him to get a store bought cake- I will stick to house decorating instead of cake decorating. Please be nice about the cake...I am so not a professional and he loved it...that counts for something doesn't it??

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