Apple Butter Festival

The Kimmswick Apple Butter Festival was this weekend.  It is a huge craft show.  I asked Lilly if she wanted to go but she wasn't interested.  So I told her there would be pony rides and that she was interested in doing!

 And lucky me, they had several inflatables.  The price was quite inflated, as well, but she really did enjoy herself on them.  We only had to do one search and rescue and it was on this challenging slide.

 She loved this slide.  She stayed upright until the last quarter of it and rolled the rest.

 We finally got to leave the inflatables to explore the booths.  But stop, do you hear that music?  Go back Mommy!  So I went back to listen to the Native American play the pan flute.  It really was beautiful and she loved it!

 And here she is dancing some more.  I had a really hard time getting her to leave.  And yes, I bought her a pan flute and a recorder! O Happy Day!

And the apple butter?  We did not get any.  

Pumpkin Painting

Sophia and Lilly painted pumpkins last night. They had lots of color choices to choose from!

Pink, Yellow, Green, Gold, Blue, Black - you name it, we had it or could mix it! This is Sophia's pumpkin. There is so much paint on it, it probably will be dry by Thanksgiving.

And here is Lilly's.
The perfect shade of orange with a few smudges of color.

gift from gap

We received a special delivery this afternoon from Aunt Patty. Thank you!

I'm a Princess!

Brooke and Lilly posing with their tiaras!

Just yummy goodness

I have no idea what we were making - maybe brownies? - but I love these photos that Ernie took.  Enjoy!

Fall Festivals

'Tis the season for Fall Festivals!!  I love this time of year.  The leaves are beautiful this year!  Our neighbors go to St. Joseph's and we have heard about their annual fall festival and decided to go check it out!  Our little ghoul got so many compliments on the Halloween shirt I made her.  And she wore it with such pride.  She loved those feathers!

 She really wanted to ride the Ferris Wheel.  I was nervous to take her because once you're on it, you're on it...

 At first I held her close, assuming she would be nervous or scared.

 But she can't removing my arm from around her and yelling at Ernie, "Here I am Daddy!"

 She loved it at the top.

 And always wanted to find Daddy at the bottom.  We went on to ride the bugs, cars, and some super slide.  We found our neighbors and hung out for a little while and then carried an exhausted child home.

Fall Picnic

Lilly and I went to the fall picnic for work this year. She had a great time! Sophia, her, Braden, and Claire were all born within the same 5 month period and they see each other at different functions because their parents not only work together, but they sometimes play together. It's really fun to see them all growing up. And even though they don't see each other that often, when they do, it is like they say "oh hi! it's you again. let's go play" and I'm sure there is sweet music in the background.
This is Sophia and Lilly at the pumpkin decorating station! Oh, Lilly made a mess! And it was my fault for suggesting "Lilly, do you want to use the paint?" Who would ask that question? (besides me.)

Enjoying the slide.

And they all loved playing on this bouncy fire engine.

There was an awesome face painter there. Lilly stood in line and waited twice to have a little pumpkin painted on her hand. She only waited in line for a couple minutes and would leave to see something else. She sees an older girl with her whole face painted like a tiger. And she looked at me and said "I want that." Then she walked over to the face painter and waited. Even the face painter questioned her ability to sit still for this to be done. I assured her I had no idea if she would and that I had low expectations. We told Lilly to just lay back and close her eyes.

She was so still and relaxed she almost fell asleep.

And she was so happy with it! It was adorable! How do you tickle a tiger? Surprisingly, very easily. Now because we were at this picnic having so much fun, we missed our nap time. So we had to keep her awake until bed time now! So much fun. This is her extremely tired and concentrating so hard on painting. She went to bed so easily.