Enjoying the fall!

This is my favorite time of year!! I love the crispness in the air, wearing sweatshirts again, and smelling wood fires being burned! We've been busy enjoying the season and looking forward to Halloween, especially Ella and David. We went camping this past weekend (except Emily who spent the weekend with her good friend Emma). Ella and I worked on a craft project from Family Fun magazine, and had a great time doing it! Last night I went over to the Mast's and took 6 week photos of Finn, I'll include a few here for your enjoyment. I'm sure we'll have another new post soon with Halloween pictures so check back later on this week!

At the land! (Trying a video on the blog for the first time, hope it works). This is Jason, Ella, and David riding a quad through what is left of the pond!

Ella and her haunted house!

Finn being the cute baby boy he is so good at being!!!!

Fall farming!

This weekend we felt a little like farmers ourselves. Jason and I spent 8 hours tilling a large patch of ground in our backyard. It's a spot that the previous owners had used as a garden and had turned into our weedpatch! We ended up renting a tiller and even with that powerful thing it took forever because the ground was so hard from the drought. Sunday we got the grass seed down and the two bales of hay that I had purchased, unfortunately we need about five more bales to finish the job! Thank goodness we had enough seed but we need to get it covered soon before the birds eat it! Now comes the fun part of watering it well, which will require a few hours of the sprinkler a day.

As well as doing "farming" ourselves, we visited Iron's Fruit Farm today and went to get pumpkins. The crowd was large but we thought that the half hour wait in line for the free hayride to the pumpkin patch was worth it. Jason and Emily had a good time hunting for the perfect pumpkin while Ella, David and I had more fun hunting the craziest looking gourd! It took a while but we were all happy with our finds and went home to finish our seeding and haying.

Jason on the hunt for the perfect pumpkin

Ella in the pumpkin patch with her choice gourds

Ella and David on the hay ride

Emily with the perfect pumpkin!

Is it fall yet?

The calander it's October, but here in Cincinnati it still feels like July. Fall is my favorite time of year and I feel like I'm getting shorted this year. Knowing the weather around here it'll be in the 80's this week and then in the 40's the next and we'll have no wonderful weather inbetween! Enough of my ranting, and onto why you've come to read this post.


The past couple of weeks I have felt like a hamster on a wheel that is running and going nowhere. Emily's cross country season did come to a close this last Saturday. She did excellent and we are all very proud of her. The coach is trying to convince her to run track in the spring time but Emily is not so sure about that. Our goal is to keep her in good running shape so that next year she's even better!

Emily's Sideline Cheerleaders at her League Final Meet

Emily with her teammates just before the race.

Emily coming down the finish line!

We spent a weekend at The Land with Mamaw, Papaw and Nataliya. We relaxed, played, and thanks to Jason's ipod hooked up in the minivan we did the Hokey Pokey and Chicken Dance around the firepit! It's so much fun to go for a time without the tv and just enjoy one another's company in God's creation.

Doing the Hokey Pokey!

Doing the Chicken Dance!

David and Ella are gearing up for Halloween and can't wait to dress up. Ella was so excited to decorate the house you would have thought it was Christmas! The only part that they, and I, don't like about Halloween are all of the scary figures in the stores. You've seen them, the mummies, witches, and bald serving guys that make noises and move at just the right time to make you jump! We're hoping to get to a pumpkin farm this weekend and if we do I'll post those pictures as soon as I can. That's it for now, thanks for visiting!