Lucy's Preschool Field Trip @ Jaker's

 Lucy loves going to preschool. She has been learning a lot and making new friends. Her first field trip was to Jakers pumpkin patch. She got to ride the bus and everything. Lincoln and i met them there. She had a blast with her 2 high school students. They went on a hay ride with her, took her to see the petting zoo and helped her pick out a pumpkin. She had a blast!

Farm country

I love Saturdays. We always get to do fun activities as a family. It's nice to hang out all together because it doesn't happen very much during the week. Today we decided to go to Farm Country! It was completely empty because everyone was watching conference 😬. We decided to watch that session later. The kids got to go on a couple of pony rides. We also saw the other animals and went on a trailer ride. The kids had a lot of fun! 

Wood Connection: Fall Centerpiece Decor

Hey! It Jamie from Savvy Sisters. I can't believe summer is over and Autumn is here! It is so crazy how cold it is getting now too. I'm so excited for the leaves to change, for football, and for fun Fall activities to come! But I'm also excited to start decorating for Fall time! I made this Autumn Centerpiece for my table. It was easy and took about 2 hours or less for me to make!

Materials:

- Framed plank sign

- journaling square block + finial

- small flat wooden leaves and acorns

- wooden acorns

- paint (fall colors)

- ribbon

- paper

- 2 berry sprigs 

- brushes

- stain (provincial)

- sandpaper

- wood glue

- candles or pumpkins and ghourds. 

First I sanded and stained the plank board. I used the provincial color that Wood Co sells. I wiped off the stain and then set aside to dry.

Next, I painted the leaves different Fall colors. I used forest green, goldenrod and medocino red. Once they dried, I sanded the edges and stained each one. For the flat acorns, I painted them different fall colors, let them dry and then cut out and glued cute paper on them. Then I tied ribbon around them! For the other acorns, I dipped them in the can of stain and then wiped them off. Those were easy!

After those were done, I painted my block forest green. Then I sanded the edges and stained it. I picked out some cute paper and glued that on. I picked one for each side! Then I stained the finial and tied a ribbon around it!

After everything was done drying, I put it all in the plank sign! Then added some candles and put it on this cute coffee table! I'll probably put some pumpkins and gourds in there when the grocery stores get them in.

Happy Fall Y'all!

Onion Days

The Onion Days Parade was actually very enjoyable this year because the weather was perfect! It felt good to be in the sun because it was slightly cold. Lincoln loved finding, mooching and eating all the candy from the kids. He didn't love the loud sound from the fire trucks though. Lucy was being a little timid this year and just standing and watching the floats instead of getting candy. I guess that's ok. She still had fun!
Afterwards, we went to Dave and Kathy's for lunch. A couple of Dan's cousins came over too and it was so nice to catch up to them! It was fun and relaxing to hang out and chat.

Lincoln @ 18 Months

Some things about Lincoln @ 18 Months:

- He is such a happy boy! Just the other day, we were in the backyard and He sees me and run towards me and give me a big hug. Those are the best! 

- Has been giving me a lot of opened mouthed kisses.

- He is a mamas boy. Whenever I leave he runs towards me crying and hugs my legs. 

- He still has 2 teeth, but eats everything. 

- He likes to head butt. The boy cousins think it's really cool!

- He has been saying uh oh lately!

- He is drinking almond milk to see if there's s change with his constipation- no luck yet.

- His little funny personality has been coming out. He pulls these faces and just holds them until I laugh. One day at family dinner he pulled it and held it until everyone was looking at him. Everyone cracked up and he did not break it once. Haha he is such a funny boy.

- He is starting to sign and say more. It's adorable.

- When he's all done with his food he lifts up and hands me his plate. He is like his big sister. 

- He is really good at following directions now- like go get your shoes, get your bottle, eat your dinner.

- He fell off the stool in the bathroom and landed on his face. His binkie broke and cut his lip. It was bleeding pretty bad and was a deep cut. Dan came running home and we took him to the Er. By then it stopped bleeding and he was calming down. They had to numb him and the. They gave him 2 stitches. Poor kid was crying though it all. But after he did just fine. Then he zonked out for 3 hours and woke up his happy self.

- He says papa, bye

- He signs please 

- He is saying a few more words! Waffle, fruit, snack

- He always falls and hits hit head. I swear it's like once a day poor kid. Today he fell back on the bleachers and hit his head. 

- He weaned him off the bottle but we still live off of a binkie!

- He's been so good at obeying! I ask him to lay down so I can change his diaper and he does. He's so good! He also likes putting shoes away in the shoe basket.

- He loves his monkey blanket and will not go to sleep with out it. In fact he likes to take it everywhere.

- He is such a good eater! He eats more than Lucy. And he likes to eat with a fork or spoon and it pretty good at using them!

- He is finally getting his top two teeth in! Now he will have 4.

- He Loves to say daddy! 

- He Waves and says bye to people. I tell him to go give them hugs and he runs right to them and then says bye. So adorable!

We love our Linc Man!