Fall is in the air!

It's that wonderful time of year were the weather starts to cool down and leaves start to fall. I love fall and it has been great so far. The weather has been just beautiful for awhile now, the only draw back is my allergies, boy are they giving me a hard time. I never had this problem until about 4 years ago, now about this time every year I get miserable for a few weeks. That's ok, I am not going to let it ruin my fall fun! One fun fall thing to do is go to a pumpkin patch or a farm were you can go and pick your own pumpkins. Well that is what we did, we took a drive out to Dewberry Farm:

There you can see pig races:

Emily needed to get on Popsy's shoulders for a better view:

The kids can have rubber duck races:

then go out in the pumpkin fields and choose your own pumpkin:

This is the pumpkin Emily wanted at first because it is a Cinderella pumpkin, but by the time the wagon ride got to the front and seeing her brothers pumpkins she traded hers in a got her a big one, didn't get a picture of her with her big one though:

Todd and I on the ride back in from the pumpkin patch:

A favorite was getting sno cones you get the ice:

Then you come in here and pick out your flavor and put it on yourself:

The slide is always fun:

so fun even daddy wanted to take a ride:

The zipline was also a blast:

But the kids had so much fun inside this pipe while daddy and Popsy rolled them around:

The farm flinger is great too, just hop on and go for a ride:

and lets not forget the haystack jump:

This is kind of like a swing, the kids were cracking up laughing trying not to fall off this:

The corn maze, the kids didn't really want to do it so they found the fastest exit and headed out:

They also had a blast on the pillow jump:

It was a great time and a great way to kick off fall.

Todd had to go to fire school in Louisiana so the kids and I tagged along. While he was in class I took the kids to the Lake Charles Children's Museum. It is a nice, small little museum, but we pretty much had the place to our self. The kids had fun in the pretend store and restaurant:

They have this little thing at the Houston Children's Museum, so they tried it here too:

Emily being a monkey:

This was neat you put your hands on this sensor and the drum would beat at each beat of your heart:

JT brushing these huge teeth:

They had a lot of fun on this twirling thing:

The boys loved this train town they had set up behind the glass. You pushed different buttons and the train would go or make the sound of the place the train was going by like the farm or saw mill:

The bubble room was a blast:

They also had this karaoke room with insturments:

This was fun, you squeezed a bottle and smelled it and tried to guess the scent, then you would lift up the block in front of the bottle and it would show you what it was. Here Dylan had just smelled pine cones and it made him gag:

The kids put on a puppet show for me:

Played with magnets:

and built dinosaurs:

They also had this little tunnel maze and it had different areas to stick your hear out at, here is Dylan and Emily trying to squeeze into the same hole:

JT peeking out when Dylan stuck his head in there too:

They had a lot of fun with this water table, they set up mazes for the boats to flow down through:

The kids really enjoyed it. After Todd got our of class that day we took the kids to play some putt putt and hit a few balls in the batting cages. Todd and Emily both had a hole in one on different holes:

JT being goofy pretending he was falling in the well:

Then we got hungry and found this Japanese hibachi steak house and went for dinner:

The kids favorite at every hibachi is the onion volcano:

The funny thing the kids and I don't really like oriental food in general but Emily did enjoy her hibachi steak:

JT and I ate chicken fried rice:

Dylan had hibachi chicken:

The cook trying to flick squash into Dylan's mouth, the other two wouldn't even try:

The second day we were there I had found a really nice park called Millenium park. It was very nice and made out of splinter free wood:

It was right next to Lake Charles and was a beautiful day:

Part of the fort had this huge slide, but the kids said it kept schocking them as they slid down:

I climbed up in the fort, but wouldn't slide down the slide, but made the kids come come back inside for this cute picture:

Emily loved this giant chair swing:

The boys getting ready to get dizzy on the tire swing:

They must put on concerts and plays at the park as they had this big hill going down to this stage. My crazy kids:

It was a nice little mini vacation, it is always fun just to get away and see different things.