Above: Finding pumpkins (on Emily's field trip to Lyons Family Farm). The kids also got to pet a bunch of farm animals, play in a corn crib, go through a corn maze, go on a hay ride, play on a big playground and eat pumpkin seeds.
We celebrate Columbus Day every year by going to a place we've never been before and seeing how much fun we can have there. It's all in the name of exploration and adventure. We began this tradition when Emily was one and it has become our favorite day of the year! This year we traveled to Birmingham, AL to a theme park called Alabama Adventures. The kids had a blast riding rides and playing games. We pretty much had the park to ourselves, as it was off season. We had a great day!
Joey and I celebrated our nine year anniversary at the Nashville Zoo, then to dinner at the Rain Forest Cafe...it was a fun day with the kids! We are very blessed! This is a good one of all three of the turkeys (and Joey) on the carousel.
Here are our before and after pictures from tonight. We visited some neighbors and then headed over to a church for trunk-or-treat. Emily was a white cat, Matthew was a power ranger and Molly was a ladybug. They were all so cute and had a great time! We all went out for pizza on our way home and now we're wrapping things up and heading for bed. We were talking about how it's just not the same as going to the Campbell's house, which is what we had done the past few years in Houston. We miss you guys! 
This one is cute, too. You can't tell on here, but Emily's eyes are the bluest blue and Matthew and Molly have the biggest brown eyes I've ever seen! Where'd those come from? Not Joey and I...our eyes are hazel!
We went to the local farmer's market and got some fun fall pictures taken today. I wanted to post a few of our favorites. We can't believe how much they've grown this past year. We did this last year and Molly was just starting to walk! We enjoyed the beautiful fall weather playing outside today. We are having a little fun with our neighbors....we are trying to decide what color to paint our shutters, so Joey cut a couple pieces of cardboard to the size of our shutters and spray-painted them, and then duct taped them up on the house so that we could decide what we like best. We think it's pretty funny and might leave our "new" cardboard shutters up for a while!
We went to Chuck-E-Cheese on Matthew's birthday to celebrate. Emily's favorite ride was this bike that you pedal up to the ceiling. The kids had a great time and we managed to escape with SOME money left in our pockets. We then proceeded to the shoe store, where Matthew got to buy his most coveted birthday gift....Sketchers Luminators.....courtesy of Nana and Pawpaw. He wears them proudly every day! Thank you to everyone who sent him gifts and cards! He had a great fourth birthday!
I was standing on our back deck when I took this photo of Joey and the kids on the trampoline. I can't tell you what a blessing it is to have this huge yard for the kids to play in. I can let them go out back and tell them to stay in our yard, and they feel like they have all the room in the world to run and play. I have been known to make them race to the tree line and back in the afternoons just to wear them out! We are enjoying all the space so much! 
