We had a 'venture!

Yesterday turned into an absolutely beautiful day here, so on our way back from getting Ceana's hair cut, we did a spur-of-the-moment change of plans and went to look at a local waterfall in the middle of the river. Well, from there we decided to continue on and see where the road went...and ended up finding a pumpkin patch! Great place, not terribly far from us, with a hay bale pyramid full of tunnels, tons of pumpkins, a train ride, apple cider, gourds and wreaths, caramel kettle corn, apples, etc. We had a great time - Liam spent most of his time in/on the pyramid (he was too busy to help us pick out pumpkins), Ceana climbed to the top with daddy and helped pick out a few bright orange orbs to carve for our front porch...However, there is a downside to "spur-of-the-moment" - I didn't have a decent camera. So I took some photos with my cell phone and did a bit of doctoring on them.

Phil is back from his week-long trip to West Virginia. Was not too exciting, though he did end up with a new Dodge Charger for a rental car...couldn't have been too bad, right? ;) The kids are thrilled to have daddy home again, as am I. It's been so long since he was underway, that I've gotten out of the mind-set. It was pretty chaotic around here while he was gone!

I'm going to be working on a new Amazon wish-list for the kids for Christmas. It seems so far away, but I know it's going to come quick. I'm already trying to find some change of address cards so that we can work on Christmas cards so that...well, it's just a never-ending cycle. Once I get the lists up on the website, I will post here and include a link for anyone who wishes to follow.

Ceana was cute the other day - we were on our way home from taking Liam to school, and she suddenly says (sounding panicked), that there's a hole in her shirt. I turn around to take a quick look, and see that the girl is talking about one of the buttonholes in her shirt! Silly...

We're still working on the potty-training. Trying a different tack, since she has started going potty mostly in her diaper before then telling me, heading in and going approximately 3 drops in her potty chair...expecting a pull-up and treat! So, today we got some "big girl" underwear that she picked out and we're staying right on top of her to see if we can get her to not have an accident. We'll see how that goes...we really need to figure something out though...

Enjoy the photos, and we hope you're all doing well!