Week(s) In Review

It's been a rough week and a half. Over Columbus Day, Derick went to New Mexico on an elk hunt and I got a cold. The "cold" apparently was a virus and at any rate, I sort of let myself get too run down I guess. Things culminated with a trip to the ER Saturday morning, but my medicine has helped and I am finally on the up swing. It was one of those nagging illnesses where you think you feel OK, but you really should be in bed.

During that time, Caroline was also sick. We went to the doctor's office on Thursday and Friday, the ER on Saturday and back to the doc on Monday. Luckily, Mattie has been fine. Here are some of the things we have done since Friday the 9th.

Caroline had a field trip to the fire station and I joined her. This fire station was new and so very nice. I was impressed. The kids got to use this water hose to put out an imaginary fire on a wood cut-out building, climbed on the fire truck and watched a movie about stop, drop and roll.

This is before we got sick!!

We have had an incredibly cold stretch of weather that started on the day of the fire station trip. We are talking 38 for the high. I attended the coldest soccer games of my life...
Mattie playing soccer on October 10!!! Look at all of those clothes. Brrrr.

Is this soccer season or football playoffs? Good grief!

Caroline's game was at 3 and still brrrrrrrrrrrr!

Fast forward a full week to this past Sunday. We ventured out to the pumpkin patch. It has warmed up and the leaves are beautiful, but it was windy on Sunday. This cute pumpkin patch is only a few miles from our house. It is nice and small and we enjoyed a hayride to the patch to choose our pumpkins, the girls (and the adults) walked through a couple of haybale mazes, petted a draft horse, fed a goat some raw pumpkin, petted a donkey, saw pigs and sheep and came home with a haybale to put on our porch for our "fall display."

Whew. I'll try to keep up better with posts now that I am feeling better...