I wish to thank Wal-Mart for putting Halloween costumes on sale for 50% off (and later for 90%).
Or rather my children would like to thank Wal-Mart for their after Halloween sales.
Stylin’ and profilin!
*We also had a special forces operative but he couldn’t appear on camera (it’s top secret…or something).
It’s not late, so I should be a little coherent.
These were taken at the dairy farm we visited in October. They had a huge hay bale and a bunch of hay on the ground for soft landings.
It looks like he’s taking off…but he’s actually about to land! Right after this was when realized that mid air spirals never had soft landings despite what was underneath.
*Not quite sure why the pictures are so small…may have to swap to an online site to get the pictures in and out and up.
UPDATE: Apparently, at eleven o’clock at night, I can’t realize that I’m posting extremely large pictures and no titles…sorry! The pictures will just have to stay large but I did put a title in.
Posting for me two days in a row! This is a new record 🙂
Waaay back in October. Among our other adventures, we headed to a dairy farm that has just started a corn maze. It’s only twenty minutes from our home, which is amazing considering that we live in the middle of a city (a small city but still not full of cow farms!). We all had a great time. Not only did they have a maze but they had other activities too. Like…
Yep, we had fun at the dairy and can’t wait to go back next year! The goal is for them to create their own creamery to process and sell milk from the farm. They are also renovating the dairy so that it can be toured. It’ll be fun to see what all they do next year!
So, after returning from our friends’ home in Kentucky we ventured on another trip…this time back in time. A local living history park puts on an event twice a year called Colonial Days. It’s an amazing event! They had all sorts of entertainment and merchants set up like it was during the colonial time period. Storytellers and dancing and entertainers were all around. This was our first time to attend and we are set for this to be a family tradition from here on out. Everyone has requested period costumes as well.
The Indians going to help with a “skirmish.” We’re not quite sure what all involved but we know it had something to do with those “rebel” patriots and some Hessian mercenaries (I sure hope I spelled that right).
This guy was amazing. He was a lace merchant. Not a lace maker…that’s what those peasants are for. He imitated a french lace merchant who had fleed France because of the revolution over there. He would talk and work on the lace. It was amazing to see how lace was made. Although, he said it was not very time consuming, it sure looked like it. He’s known as the annoying Frenchman and he played it to a ‘t!’
I’m not sure if these are regulars there but there were turkeys and chickens all around. And they were pet turkeys and chickens. The kids were able to go right up to them and pet them. *Note Ace’s notebook…yep, we’re homeschoolers!
Ceili Rain was amazed at the tame turkey (I’m guessing he thought if he behaved he wouldn’t end up on a plate this year!).
And yes, we are still stuck in October. I’m almost through with the month though. If Bryant keeps on napping as he did this past Friday, well, I’ll be caught up by the end of the week!
This was too funny not to share. While at the Creation Museum we were visiting the animals at the petting zoo. As we got ready to leave, Liam took off towards the camel pen and exclaimed, “Oh look! Coconuts!” and he picked. them. up. I’ll let Liam tell you in his own words what exactly it was…
A Coconut?! from justabunchofcharacters on Vimeo.
And in case you didn’t catch that, it was not a coconut that he picked up, it was a poo. Camel poo to be precise. We. were. rolling!
And yes, I did make him wash his hands before we left! Maybe that’s where all the stomach bugs came from!
Oh, and I think I failed to clarify that the stomach bug was only biting at night. No one really got sick during the day which means we partied and spread germs all day and then stayed up all night throwing up (well, Ace and Ceili Rain did).
Can I just say, “WOW!” We had a wonderful, amazing time at the Creation Museum! It was two hours from our friends’ home so we had decided to load up the kids and go. Unfortunately, one of their kids was sick so they stayed home and we borrowed Laura to go with us (because, as I said earlier, Zoe and Laura were inseperable). So, we decided to spread the germs (and we did) with all of Christiandom. And, as Mark put it, we traveled nine hours and were blessed with free tickets…there was no way he was going to let sick kids stop us. Okay, so they really weren’t the ones who were sick. It was actually Mark and I that had to keep running to the bathroom (at least we weren’t throwing up). The museum is very well done and for the first time, our kids weren’t running from place to place…they actually stopped and listened as we explained each exhibit. I was impressed with that.
The animals enjoyed us petting them (as long as we had food)…and we got to see a Zonky and a Zorse (that’s a donkey/zebra mix and a horse/zebra mix…an example of changes within the kind not jumping from one species to the other…a chicken-cat for example would never be able occur…as well as an ape-human…different species see?!)
Josiah, Liam, and Zoe all voted to ride the camel. Laura wanted to win we got there but Mark held firm that we weren’t trekking all the way back down to pay for another person to ride…so it was just the three!
It was such beautiful weather, that we couldn’t resist taking the kids to another park (we’re still in Kentucky here)…by this time we had throw up occurring on a regular nightly basis Ceili Rain and Ace were the main culprits)…however, they always felt fine during the day. Who knows how many people we infected while we were there!
They are sitting together and being sweet…unfortunately this is the day Bama lost 🙁
Yes, we’re still here. It seems that having six kids and trying to teach them has slowed me down a bit on my blogging. I’ve declared that we are going to have a boring week and weekend this week so I can catch up on our adventures the past few weeks!
While visiting in Kentucky, we went to a beautiful park with the intention of feeding the ducks. However, we didn’t actually get to feed the ducks, but we did see a house that Abraham Lincoln’s father helped build!
Okay, less talk…more pictures…here they come:
The house that was mentioned above. It’s being restored due to a fire. Arson seems to be a theme in that town as a pretty neat kids park we wanted to go to was destroyed due to arson…hmmm.
Zoe spotted a large beetle and Josiah wasn’t too keen on the idea of one being so close to him.
Anywhere we went, you could hear Kristina or me yelling, “James, this way! Come back James!!!”
Ceili Rain decided last week to learn how to climb into her bed. Since she’s an independent little thing, I started to fear she would try to climb out how she climbed in (diving head first)…the floor isn’t as soft as her mattress. So, Mark and I discussed it and realized the time had come to take down the railing on the crib and make it a toddler bed.
The first night, she got out of bed at least once. This is where having sisters share a room comes in handy. Zoe informed me in the morning (after the first night) that she had actually gotten out a couple of times but the last time, she got what she wanted and climbed back into bed. Since, she’s really not gotten out much. If she has, Zoe’s put her back in bed without our help.
Mark made this crib and we’ve always had a baby in it, so we’ve never taken it apart. Since Bryant and Ceili Rain were a little closer in age than the rest of the kids, we kept Ceili Rain in her crib. So, she got to be the first one to use it as an actual toddler bed.
I can’t believe how big she’s getting and how independent. Last week as well, she started trying to use a regular cup and has been pretty successful at it. Now, I’m in search of cups for her…anyone know where to get 7 ounce plastic purple cups?
A couple weekends ago, we headed to Ge & Granddaddy’s house. They had not gotten to hold Bryant since he was born…so he’d grown a little…
We got to go to a high school game where Granddaddy used to coach. Liam used Granddaddy as a chair while we watched the game. I think he had the best seat in the house.
