Bubble Bathing

After apple hunting and some edible hair product (ketchup and mashed potatoes) it was time for a bath. This was Jillian's first bubble bath. What a cheap form of entertainment. They both loved it. Drew gave himself some nice bubble chops.

Friday night while Andy was at a school function I saw this bruise on Drew's back. It is pretty dark and almost in a perfect circle. I asked Drew how he got this boo boo on his back and he said "dad just hit me." Yeah right, have had to jousted him in the flank with a broom stick for that bruise to be blamed on dad. But I left a message on Andy's phone with Drew's accusations and he got a chuckle out of it. Drew would clap his hands and bubbles would fly everywhere.
Jilli's faux hawk.

I think she liked her first bubble bath. What a cutie tootie!

I had a lot of other cute bubble bath pictures, but they had Drew's business in them. Not that I think that is bad, but I had some reservations about putting them on the Internet. You never know. About Drew's business, he is very vocal, sometimes in public, about the fact the he and daddy have penises and mommy and Jillian do not. He knows that is the difference between girls and boys. He is one of a kind that boy.

Apple Hunting

Past the pumpkins and the garden was the apple orchard. Drew is ready with his apple hunting basket. This was the whole purpose of the trip.

Drew testing the product. They don't spray their trees so the apples were safe to eat straight form the tree. Yum!
Almost every picture that I took of Jillian she had an apple in her mouth.
Double fisting it.

This is maybe the most perfectly serene and gorgeous picture I have ever taken of her. Not much more to say, but I can't stop looking at it.

Munch!

Daddy and Drew were the work horses of this apple picking project.

I just think Drew looks so big in this picture.

The goods. When you first look at the apples it looked like they all had brown spots on them, but they just had speckled skin. They were perfect apples.

The ones at the top taste the best, right?

Jilli just strolling and eating.

Reach High

With fruits of our labor we made some very yummy crock pot apple butter. Family, you will get to sample some at breakfast this weekend. :)

Weston Red Barn Farm

This Saturday we went apple picking (apple hunting as Drew refers to it). We went to Weston, MO to the Weston Red Barn Farm (http://www.westonredbarnfarm.com/). They had apple hunting, a corn maze, hay rides, pony ride, pumpkins, farm animals, food and a store.

They had a area with gigantic pumpkins and mums, kinda of a photo op place. My children would not sit together. They were too busy exploring.

Jillian trying to give the pumpkin the five finger discount.
Mom ruining the fun.
One child sitting, one child refusing to take pictures.

They had this beautiful archway with gourds growing across it. You can see them in all different sizes hanging down from the arch. I thought this was a pretty cool picture.

We saw and smelled lots of animals. Pony rides were in a barn up the path, we decided to pass on that one. It was hot out that day and the kids were running on car naps. So we looked around a little and then hunted apples. We will have to come back for a hay ride and corn maze sometime.

Drew liked this goat.

Some noisy and snippy geese.

This rooster is having a permanent bad feather day. They don't have hair.

Turkey meet turkey.

It's Wilbur!! At least that is what I told Drew. He laughs at Charlotte's Web.

A baby cow curled up and napping.

Try picking that one up little girl. I heard one mom tell her kids they could have any pumpkin they wanted as long as they could pick it up. Good rule I think. We didn't have to worry about pumpkis because we have our own personal pumpkin supplier - Papa!

If she would have just looked up, what a perfect pose.

Beautiful flower.

Beautiful girl.

While Jilli and I were waiting for the boys to pay for our apples and Drew's truck, Jillian entertained her self by putting hay in the chair with no seat. Whatever works.

I was trying to get a picture of the kids together before we left, but of course it didn't work. Drew ran off angry because we were leaving.

Drew on the ride home, cooling off, literally and emotionally. He says that the flash from the camera hurts his eyes.

This is a picture (with the flash - it is automatic) of Drew telling me that the flash hurts his eyes. He is so animated.

O-R-E-O

After both munchkins ate their entire lunch (not a huge feat for Jilli, but definately one for Drew), they had some Halloween Oreos. This is Jillian's first ever Oreo.

Yes, it is lunch time and Drew is still in his pajamas (I am sure Jilli has her pj bottoms on too). Sadly this happens at least a couple times a week.

I think she likey.

Oreos can make anyone happy and they seem to have a exteme effect on sis.

Munchkin Meltdown

We all have bad days and these two seem to feed off each other sometimes. If you can image, it had quieted down from the moments before the video. Poor babies.

Church Carnival

We were invited to a family carnival at the neighbor's church. The had lots of bounce houses and fun things for the kids. Drew had a blast. It may have given him a distorted idea of church, because when I tell him we are going to go to church he say "bounce house?" I have to explain that church will not always have those, but will be fun. Below is Emily and Drew bouncing away.

Jilli bean in the baby bounce house. It was hard for her to stay standing, but she still had fun. The rest of the activities were for older kids, so Andy and I spent the afternoon playing another game of tag team Jilli chasing. She is a kid on the move.
My brave boy loved this big huge slide. He did it over and over.

After some carnival time we went in and Shannon gave us a tour of the church and the child care area. We are planning on visiting this Sunday for a service. I hope that it fits our family, we will see.

Tonganoxie Pool

No that is not gibberish, it is the name of town about 15 minutes from our house. The Bonner Springs Pool closed when school started, but Tonganoxie's Pool was open until Labor Day and I am so glad that we went. I liked it a lot better than Bonner Springs' pool, so much that I think next summer we will be going there. They have a kiddy pool and you can bring floaties in. Across from the kiddy pool is this area with sprinklers etc. The kids loved it. We met the Long family there that afternoon. Here I am following Jillian around. Andy and I would take turns because it is exhausting to keep up with here and make sure she doesn't get hurt.

Jilli walking through the sprinkler area while Drew (very bottom right corner) and Mr. Brett were spraying Owen.
The bathing beauty.

Drew and his buddy Owen. Drew did so well at the pool. He even put his face in the water. I don't know if it was peer pressure, because he saw Owen fearlessly playing in the water or if he was just getting more comfortable with the water. Either way he was a very brave boy.