Our Fabulous Fall Festivities

* I racked my brains and searched forever to find a song to go with this post with no luck!

Fall always has been, and always will be my favorite time of year! So, I'm usually good on celebrating it.

First was Em's first school field trip to PumpkinLand, and boy did she have a blast! A lot of kids were missing that day, so it ended up being her and two other girls and five adults for her class! Lot's of one on one attention :)

Since I had gone earlier with the morning class and rode the bus, another fellow teacher and I thought to ask the bus driver if he minded if Em rode as long as I came along... (district policy is that kids that can't independently walk can only ride the bus with a wheelchair or other transit approved device... insurance has now denied us twice for a special needs stroller). He didn't see any reason why not, so sweet girl got to ride along with her friends :)

Em and her teacher Ms. Jamie

All three girls that made the trip from her class :) that's A and B, and by the way B is quite amazing! Never seen another kid with a trachea quite like her!

And that's Steve pushing Em (he joined us for the first part)

 Awww, aren't they cute??

Looks completely unimpressed ;)

Love her!

Picture with daddy before he had to head back to work

This goat kept chewing on Em's boot and she had the look on her face like, "why are you letting him do this to me??" As I was trying to get a picture, another one bit my side... all that and the smell, makes me grateful that we only go once a year!

 Light Alley

Love this picture!

 Em's PT Angeleen helping her go down the slide

And her favorite, the swings

That ended the field trip, but we got to go to another pumpkin patch the following week. One that was right near our new place, that had a sign up saying that they were going to offer free hayrides and hot chocolate... couldn't pass that up now could we ;)

On the hayride

Em thought all the bumping around was hilarious!

We thought this was pretty funny...

 Yes that is a very large, escaped pig... that our driver is desperately trying to corral back to her pin!

She was very accomplished at evading capture ;)

My favorite part was when he kept exclaiming that he didn't have any idea how she got out!! Well, when I saw the little metal crate that was blocking the door, it was easy to see how this pig that was easily 300+ pounds could get out ;)

Picking the perfect pumpkin takes a lot of concentration

 Loves her Halloween songs, just like her momma!

 She's so good at the actions!

P.S. Miss Em is standing on her own for this shot :D

We had so much fun! Thanks to a nice farmer and his family who really just wanted to give families a fun night without caring if they made money! We walked away only spending $5 on the 3 pumpkins we took home :) Made our week! 

And I wanted to do something different  with the pumpkins this year since we won't really be able to show them off with where our front door is. Plus, I really didn't feel like spending hours.. possibly days on carving them all (since I'm the only one who does)! So I set out to find an alternative, and I'm pretty happy with the outcome. 

 First we painted them

Em, was excited for all about 2 minutes! But, she had fun the next day...

 Examining which parts go where

So proud!

And the finished products

All supplies were purchased at Hobby Lobby for 40% off, so only $9 total!

*Extended* Weekend Getaway

*Play song, "Babylon" with this post

Steve's parents have a time-share at the Canyons Resort (Westgate Lodge) in Park City, and the last time we'd been up with them was when I was pregnant with miss Em back in the summer of 2007, so we were long overdue to go again! Especially when I realized that Emarie has never been to downtown Park City.... she's been to the outlets in the outskirts, but not to Main Street (you know? the main attraction!). 

We had initially only planned on staying just for the weekend (Friday night to Sunday night), but when we found out that they had upgraded Steve's parents to the presidential suite because they realized how hard it would be for my father-in-law and his wheelchair to maneuver around in a regular room. With an amazing common room complete with full kitchen, 4 bedrooms and a wrap-around deck complete with a jacuzzi.... Needless to say, we couldn't stay away. So we went back up for two additional nights (Tuesday and Thursday). 

Ahhh Fall!

Westgate

Ariana 

Even uncle Mike joined us from Arizona.... we were only missing Brian (Steve's oldest brother) and Amber (one of Steve's younger sisters) and her husband Kevin who had to stay in their new home of West Virginia due to work and school, but we're hoping they'll be able to join us next year!

Isabel and aunt Rachelle

Aunt Crystal and Isabel

In the pool 

Em and Steve

Ariana all ready

Em and grandma. I should also mention that we have still yet to locate all our swimsuits from the move, which resulted in Steve and I getting some mismatched wrong sized ones off the clearance racks at the outlets and Em wearing a onesie :P

Em swimming on her own

The Flynns 

 Playing chicken

Jeff and Crystal, Uli and Rachelle

The winners

Synchronized swimming?

Isabel helping her sister

Steve holding a somewhat unhappy Ariana....

unhappy because, this is where her family was

Kristal, Isabel and Uli in the hot tub

Poor Em had to share.... her iPhone that is

 The face says it all here

Breakfast helpers: me, Mike, Mandy (Mike's girlfriend) and Kristal

My sweetie all dressed up for the day

The three of us went to Main Street to take some pictures

Then we decided to take the chair lift to the top of the mountain.... a ride that ended up costing us more than $100!! Only because I lost my phone out of my pocket somewhere along the way... *SOo like me!

Going up

At the top

Poor girl! Had that hat since before she was born and it is sized 6-18 months and it still doesn't fit her!

Going down

Actually, most of us enjoyed the hot tub the most!

 Not exactly fond of this picture of me, but it's the only one of us in the hot tub. And like I said, mismatched, too big swimsuit (which is why I'm covering it up!)

 The newest lovebirds (going on 3 months now!), Crystal and Jeff

This was pretty common for the boys (to be asleep that is!), Cory and Rachelle

Anyway, all in all it was a really nice little break! With some nice eating (in and out), a little shopping, games, and of course just fun company!

Thanks again Peters' family! We had a blast!