Fall Days...

It has been a few great weekends with the exception of our boys in blue, Chicago Cubs, losing and ending our hope for the pennant. Putting that aside it has been great! The Bain boys and I have gone to pick pumpkins and apples, had a weiner roast and made smore's. The weather has been spectacular, what more could you ask for?

The last weekend of September, I took the boys to pick pumpkins and apples at Kuiper's Family Farm in Maple Park. This is our third year going, it is such an awesome place to go. Every year they change some things around and it is always fun!! Unfortunately this year due to Scott's new schedule he wasn't able to be part of our fun.
These are some of the pumpkins we picked...

Tractor Derby...
The boys are in full swing with school. Logan has his weekly spelling test and math homework every night, I can't believe it and he's only in 1st grade. What will it be like in two years? Algebra? Trig? Coulson refuses to say what he learned in school. He just says, "I don't know." So much for all kinds of open ended questions that I can ask and all I get is "I don't know."

Logan picking his green apples, he doesn't care for the red. As he picked the apples, he kept repeating, "Lift, twist and pull."
You can eat as many apples as you can while you're in the orchard. They enjoyed themselves.

As much as they are the same they are very much opposites. Coulson doesn't like green apples, he would only pick red ones.

Halloween will be here before you know it, luckily we have gotten our costumes a couple of weeks ago. Even at that point the stores were really picked over.















One of the best things about Kuiper's, their Apple Cider donuts. They are unbelievable. After a hard day of picking pumpkins and apples the Bain Boy's enjoy cider and their donuts. What an ending!















This past weekend we took a lot of pictures on my aunt's camera, once I receive those I'll post those too...the boys milked a cow, had a hay rack ride and a Peoria favorite, Avanti's.

To top the weekend off Illinois beat the pants off Michigan!


Holli