Lots of Fall fun!!!!

Mommy took the boys and met our family friends, Sarah, Beau, Liam and Dillon at a pumkin patch!! The boys had a ball!! Running around in the beautiful sunshine and chasing each other. Liam is about 3 weeks younger than Tyson, so they have been buddies since birth. Mommy showed the boys all the pumkins and different gourds and all the colors they provide. What a great day.

We went up to Michigan again!! (4th trip this year). We took our friends Scotty and Catherine again this year for Sabrina's Fall break. They went with us last year and are great friends. Back to the Best Western in Holland and to "Crazy Bounce", the indoor pool, and to the beach for all the familiar things we did this summer, but love to do again and again. A couple sunsets and lots of pictures and it was a trip too short, like most of them.


The first leaves of Autumn fell and we were actually one of the first ones to have a tree totally bare! It was weird this year. I don't ever remember this one being the first on our block, but it was this year. So the boys helped us build a pile and they loved jumping into it and wrestling. Tyson was very good to be gentle even though Lucas still has NO concept of that at all. It was a great afternoon with lots of pictures and video.

End of Summer, Painting the Pool, Tyson's first black eye

It's needed it for a couple of years now, but this year, with the help of our neighbor Eric!!!!, was the year to paint the pool. Ugh. But Eric took the reigns, basically prepped it all by himself while we were away on vacation! And then it was time. We had fun with the power washer, let the boys do their part in helping, and got it all painted. It was a three week adventure, but it looks great. Hopefully it's going to last for 10 years or so. Man, I hope so.

During our pool painting fun, Tyson was on the losing end of Lucas throwing a cast metal plane his way. Ouch. Ty was a pretty good sport and we are still working on Lucas understanding what he can toss (soft balls), vs. what he can't throw (everthing else that's not a soft ball!!!).

First time Putt Putt, First time Kings Island!!

I am pretty sure that the day we picked to go play Putt Putt for the first time with the boys was also the hottest day of 2008!! It had to be 90* or above...sunny, no one else on the course. (That was nice though!!) My boys play a strange version of golf...no logical order to the hole selections. (IE...hole 1, hole 2, hole 3, etc....) No, this was more like "how about the big Elephant one now", or "no it's my turn to pick", one. Also, there's not really an "honor" system yet about counting strokes. But it was basically a blast getting out and trying something. Ty has a whole year on Lucas, so a little bit more of a grasp on things, but Lucas held his own.

We ended up skipping about 10 holes, but I didn't know how bad it could get until the 18th hole swallowed up Tyson's ball and he couldn't get it back. Lucas was smart enough to see that since Tyson's wasn't returning, he wasn't going to make his go down the hole now. So we literally had to remove him, with force, off the putt putt grounds. (Nap time and very hot=bad mix with 2 year olds!!)

We went with our neighbors, Eric, his son Jarrett, and our other neighbor Clint, along with Sabrina's parents, Victoria and Bill to Kings Island late in the summer. I have never stayed at the "Inn", but it was nice...and CLOSE!!! Two important things. The boys had a surprising number of rides they could go on and they made the most of it. Even some that Tyson was not "technically" tall enough to get on, he did. The Frog thing comes to mind right now, but I think there was another...maybe a roller coaster by Scooby Doo....Hmmm. But we were blessed with two great days weather wise. Not too hot and not too sunny. The boys lasted the whole first day and LOVED the fireworks at the end. We could see them from our hotel very well.

I have to tell you...the real highlight of the trip for Tyson and Lucas was probably jumping from bed to bed in Eric's hotel room. They did it for close to two hours and they had a ball. Even Mr. Eric got into the act almost wiping out the whole room in the process. Mamaw and Papaw had a good time riding lots of rides and helping out Sabrina and I to be able to ride a couple of rides all by ourselves!! That was fun. Eric drove the whole way there and back and I got to relax in the back!! Sweet.