We're up to no good! ;)

as usual. :)  Just Kidding!!

Well, Mike's building's survey is over.  YAY!!  We have a Daddy and hubby again. :)  They did well, relatively speaking,   So thanks for all the positive thoughts and prayers.  It was a long week and a half of late nights,  early mornings, and lots of stress.

the rest of us are just pluggin' along with our fall!  J and A are finally swimming well, like really swimming!  YAY!!  We are so so happy, it really relieves some of my stupid and irrational fears with living in an area surrounded by water. :)

The other day I picked the kids up from school, the sun was shining, and it was gorgeous.  We had 3.5 hours until we needed to be somewhere, so I decided we needed to go to the pumpkin patch before the rain hit again.  I suggested to the kiddos that they put their sad puppy dog eyes and pouty lips as we stopped by Mike's work to see if he could come with us.  He wasn't able to right then, but he could in 30 minutes.  We went home real quick and ate snacks and then went back and picked Mike up and then off to the pumpkin patch we went!

and they are off 

D quickly claimed his pumpkin!

S did too, they were both super excited.

D taking a rest on a pumpkin.

Here, D is "cha chink, cha chink, cha chinking" at me with his imaginary camera. :)  hahaa!

S and J running to a section with BIG pumpkins.

D is off wandering, and singing!

another pumpkin break!

D has officially found HIS pumpkin

He is lovingly admiring his bright orange pumpkin.

Dad standing by his pumpkin pick!

A is chilling in the wagon with the pumpkins and my camera bag.

S has discovered the Cinderella pumpkins.  She was caressing it. hahaaa

This is HER pumpkin pick!

pumpkins

So, sometimes one has NO idea what awesome true to life treasure one captures on film. :)  These next set of photos are some of my favorite. :)  but you have to watch the series closely....  Can you guess what happened? I'll tell you on my next post...  (if you read FB, hush!! )

OK, so look VERY carefully at the next few photos.  Look...

Look...

Keep looking...

Finally, they are all happy and messing around. :)

Heading back to the barn.

The pumpkin loot.  We also went home with about 20 ears of fresh picked corn!  MMM!