Weekend Recap

I heart 4 days!!! I love the long weekends and love the family time it creates. It seems there are fewer of them, but I will still take 'em when they come around! Thanks to Columbus Day, Brandon has had off since Friday and it's been a GREAT weekend! Thursday night, we started off our weekend off right with grilling steaks for dinner. I also made baked macaroni & cheese and green beans. It was a yummy meal :) Friday morning, we got up and got ready for the day. We did some roaming in town, ran a few errands, had a delicious lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings, and walked around the mall. I picked up Peighton a new winter jacket at The Children's Place for a steal of only $15 and it was originally marked at $29. They were having a great sale! Its just been hard to get motivated to buy the kids a bunch of winter clothes when the highs are still hitting in the high 70's/low 80's... not exactly cold weather clothing yet! That afternoon Henry took his nap and Brandon worked outside cleaning up his truck. P and I made a Halloween cake and we had pizza biscuits for dinner. We played outside and went for a long walk around the neighborhood that evening. Saturday morning was mostly quiet.. we lounged around the house. Brandon mowed the front yard and cleaned it up. We had lunch and watched some football. Henry took a nap. Then when he got up, we all got ready to head out to a local pumpkin patch. We went to the RiverView Mounds Farm and had a lot of FUN! We decided to go later in the day in hopes of the weather being cooler and it was nice outside. There were a lot of activities for the kids to do. We tackled the corn maze.. it wasn't too challenging. The kids loved playing on the swings. We saw all the animals and checked out the pig races. We went on the hayride.. a little dusty, but fun! P got to ride the ponies and the barrel train ride. Henry attempted to ride it as well, but hesitated in the end and him & Brandon just walked behind the train. P picked out a little pumpkin and Henry picked out two mini pumpkins and I picked up some Indian corn. We left after a few hours in search of some dinner.. we were all getting hungry and it was getting close to bed time. We had a quick dinner at Arby's then headed home where the kids got a quick bath and got ready for bed. They were exhausted but I know we all had a good time :) Sunday morning, we got ready for the day and headed on Post to run some errands. Brandon had to go to his office first then we went by Subway and grabbed some lunch to go and headed to the park. We ate our "picnic" lunch and then played for awhile. The kids had a lot of fun and the weather was gorgeous! On the way home, we stopped by the commissary to pick up a few things. Henry fell asleep on the way back to the house and finished his nap at home. The rest of the day was spent relaxing and catching up on some housework. Brandon fried up homemade chicken tenders for dinner.. and we had pumpkin pie for dessert. This morning the kids slept in a little and we enjoyed some yummy french toast for breakfast courtesy of Brandon. I cleaned up the kitchen some and the kids played upstairs. Brandon is busy painting Henry's train table to match the color of his toddler bed (pics and a post of that to come soon). We are going to enjoy a lazy day at home to round off our great long weekend!