What a wonderful birthday I've had this year. The weather was beautiful. We ventured out on Saturday to Prairie Gardens and enjoyed ourselves. There is a corn maze, tractor ride (wagon/hay ride), petting zoo, hay bales to crawl around on, a haunted house, stores selling candy, pumpkins, gardening goodies, restaurants, making a scarecrow, pumpkin painting, peddling a tractor, puppet plays, people dressed up in Halloween costumes, panning for gold.....etc. A really fun place to spend the afternoon and lots of people thought the same thing. Then a quick dip in the pool and home for cake and ice cream and present opening. Megan finally told me a bedtime story, after years of me reading to her and Evan and Aaron showered me with hugs and kisses. Spencer eventually bought me a beautiful silver bangle that I've had my eye on for about a year and he also got me these flowers and black forest cake (I just had to pick them up from the store for him).
Our start at Prairie Gardens. The corn maze....
At the start of the corn maze. We "chickened out" and didn't complete it. Lets face it, with kids in tow and having to find 12 letters in this huge maze....it would have taken all night. We were starting to get hot, tired and frustrated with how things were going....
We also enjoyed ourselves at the petting zoo. Aaron loves animals and pretty much mauls them whenever he gets the chance. Evan on the other hand, is quite scared that the animals are going to get him. We won't break Aaron's heart by telling him that his dad is allergic to all the fun animals; Evan on the other hand is fine with that fact and will be content with trying to keep a fish alive.
While Megan was painting a pumpkin ---Evan had his heart set on riding the tractors. So off the boys went.
Here is pirate Spencer and what is a girl equivalent called?......Arr, Matey....Happy Birthday!
