Sleigh bells ring...

EWhile uptown, we heard sleigh bells ringing and found...wagon rides!! So, we followed the wagon around to find out where the wagon rides started.

Here are the kids high up on Richard the Lionhearted and William the Conqueror, two very sweet draft horses.

Riding on the old brick streets was very bumpy, very clip-cloppety, and helped the sleigh bells jingle jingle.

Special treatment

Mama is getting a pedicure...courtesy of Gage!

Winter Saturday...

Savannah was invited to a tea party, but gage was not interested in tagging along. So,  while she sipped peppermint tea and played dress up, Gage and I went out on the town, had lunch, went shopping, etc. 

 

First up, the Rocky outlet - where we tried on some coon tail hats because, well, how can you not?!?

After we bopped around for a few hours, we picked Savannah up and went on a little Xmas excursion. We found Santa...

Added our names to the good list (with Santa's permission)...

We also found some little Christmas houses set up downtown. Savannah loved these dolls but thought they were a little creepy too.

Thanksgiving...into Xmas!

Thanksgiving dinner :-)

Of course, the morning after Thansgiving, all the pumpkins come down and Xmas goes up!

Halloween!

Since we live near no neighbors...we went to a friends' house to trick or treat. 

Gage's Halloween party

Parents were not invited to the 3rd grade party...but we were invited to the 1st grade party!  Here is Mrs. Nau, Gage's teacher...

Here is the whole class..except Gage's buddy Matty. Apparently his parents decided he should stay home because he's allergic to peanuts and they worried there would be beanie candies at the party.

This is gage getting ready to play who's the ghost - one kids went out into her hallway, and gage curled up on the floor and Mrs Nau covered him with a sheet. When she came back in she had to guess who was the ghost.  It too her firever and gage was sweltering when he came out of hiding.

After games...it was time for cookies, treats, and crafts.

On campus trick or treat

One perk of college campuses is that tr big kids love to give out candy to the little kids. We have Harry Potter and a vampire!

The dorms had different themes. This was frozen complete with a guy dressed in white (Olaf) with sticky tape wrapped around his belly that the kids threw snowballs (cotton balls) at and tried to get them to stick. Gotta love college kids.

Another dorm was a spy theme. They made soy if cards and crawled through a laser maze

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They had foosball ghosts, Frankie, and all sorts of fun stuff!

Added bonus..it was a gorgeous night!

Whoa!

Whoa, that's a big leaf!

Pumpkin patch!

Time was running short to get to a pumpkin patch, so luckily the rain ended and we made it today. First up was the corn maze. They had a mystery built into the maze (who stole the hens eggs), so you had to find hint stations along the way to rule out the suspects. They argued at every.single.one about who would use the hole punch on our card. We take turns guys :-/

We fed goats. They had the best names. Coconut. Macadamia nut. Cocoa. Caramel.

They also got to practice milking cows ;-)

And finally, we made it to the pumpkin patch.