Friday the boys and I headed down to Fayetteville to take some pictures for a friend of mine who recently got engaged. Pauline babysits for us, and is really good friends with my sister Laura, so I was so excited when she asked me to take her pictures for her! She is AWESOME and I just loved watching her and her soon-to-be hubby Matt. They were cute. Engagement pictures are the MOST FUN to take! I am still editing, but will do a post with some sneak peaks soon. They turned out SO cute!
Saturday morning we woke up bright and early with the boys and broke the news to B that we were going to eat donuts as a family. You would have thought that he had won a million dollars he was so excited. It's the little things in life, right?
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can you tell he was so happy?! ha!
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it was Connor's first donut experience. He liked them, but I think it will take a little time to warm up to them completely like Brayden (C's not much of a breakfast person).
Later Saturday morning we watched our Hogs give us a scare against Ole Miss. I have to say that I was pretty upset at the beginning of the game. It just was not pretty. Thankfully they pulled out a win, but even still the BCS rankings dropped us a spot. Let's not even start a football playoff debate--- we'll be here all night if we did :)
When the boys woke up on Saturday afternoon from their naps we loaded up and headed to a local pumpkin patch (you can read about our trip to the pumpkin patch last year HERE and the year before that HERE). Brayden was SO excited-- he talks about going to "the farm" ALL. THE. TIME. We decided to try out a new pumpkin patch this year. This particular pumpkin patch has a corn maze (which we did not attempt, and you'll know why when you see the pictures), a petting zoo, pony rides and a corn box. Brayden could have stayed there for a year and been completely happy. Connor, well he was feeling a bit under the weather with some sinus congestion, and let's just say that after just a few minutes he decided he would rather not be at the pumpkin patch. It took Drew and I taking turns to pacify to just get through most of the attractions, and even then Drew had to go out to the car with Connor so that we could let B play a little more. Gotta love this stage :)
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B got to ride on a bull
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He has a SERIOUS obsession with cows. Like, if we drive by a cow pasture (which is often in Northwest Arkansas), he will yell "WOOK! The COWS!" He was SO excited to get to pet some at the farm!
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This goat was CARAZAY. Don't believe me? Ok, I have proof.
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check out how far it's stretching it's neck for a few kernels of feed!!! And did I mention there were literally dozens of other kids with feed too. By the way they were acting, you would have thought these goats hadn't eaten in YEARS. Haha!
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This was B's favorite thing to do by far. We had to raelly watch how much he was using though; they were PROUD of their animal feed... it wasn't cheap!
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Can you tell he's smiling? So sweet!
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he was one happy boy!
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They had baby pigs (and obviously a momma pig too). They were ADORABLE. People were buying them as pets though, which I thought was really weird. People would pick out their piglet, and then walk out of the farm with it, squealing and all. I already have two kids who squeal all the time... I don't need a pig to do it too! ha! (And can you imagine a BIG pot bellied pig walking around your house? house broken or not (apparently they can train to go in a litter box like a cat), that's really gross.
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B was able to feed some of the baby pigs.
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Connor got to pet a goat too....
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can you tell he's smiling? He's also probably laughing at the fact that the goat has his big ol' neck in that little bitty hole in the fence.
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such a trooper
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he played in the hay for a little bit. But after about 2 minutes... he looked more like this.....
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and it only got worse folks....
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after a few minutes of screaming about who knows what, he realized I had put him down on the grass and he could get away. and he was off...
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I mean really, could he look any more pathetic?! Poor baby. He just was not in a good mood.
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I could barely keep up with this boy. He was running ALL. OVER. THE. PLACE.
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B would go up to the pumpkins, lean down and say "umm, yeah I pick this one." and then try to pick it up.
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I love this picture and I haven no idea why.
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Drew taught Connor to play the drums on the pumpkins.
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it kept him happy for a bit
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the only picture of I got of them both together.
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we took a wagon ride. The land was beautiful
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B was SO excited to be riding behind the tractor, and then to see the animals along the trail. Seriously made his night.
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he loved the ponies. He kept saying "giddyup pony" when he was riding... so cute (also, this is his line stolen from Toy Story).
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I asked him to smile for the camera.... And this is what he did. Is he not hilarious?!?!
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pretty sure I've not seen a cuter cowboy than this little dude. Love him so.
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playing in the corn...
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this was a candid moment for him... he kept standing up straight and then falling onto his tummy on the corn like a belly splat.
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he also tried to eat the corn husks. GROSS. (thankfully he only tried this once. This makes me think it was really that disgusting!).
Sunday I decided to keep Connor out of the church nursery, so Daddy and B headed to church while Mommy and baby stayed home to nap. The rest of Sunday was a bit of a lazy day, just hanging out at home working on house stuff and cooking for community group, which we had tonight.
We have a BUSY BUSY BUSY week ahead of us, but oh so much fun in store as well. Hope you all have a great week!