Three Peerys in a Pod

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Pumpkin patch

We took the boys out to the local pumpkin patch (our "patch" is actually just a pumpkin lot in downtown Simpsonville that benefits a local church!). They had a few cute little picture set ups there and we let the boys know that they could each pick out their own pumpkin! We did this after dinner so it was a little late and we were almost the only people there. It's almost kind of relaxing to have the place (almost) to yourself. We could let the boys roam a little and enjoy themselves. Here are a few pictures of the evening.

Pumpkin patch photo booth

Ryan! Look at Mama....

Smile!!!

Mama with the boys

Trying to get the "pumpkin patch picture"

Keep trying, crazy lady

Still not happening...

Pushing/pulling the wagon

Stokes took his wagon job very seriously!

checking out the goods

They're so cute!

Ryan enjoyed the wagon ride

Dada and his boys

Making friends with the scarecrow

Just hangin' out!

We're planning to carve pumpkins tonight. Should be fun...and messy! See you next year, Pumpkin Patch!

P.S. It was fun to look at pictures from the same pumpkin patch last year. Here's the link if you want to look back. Pumpkin time!

Oktoberfest 2016

Over the weekend, we met some friends up in Walhalla to check out the annual Walhalla Oktoberfest festival for the very first time.

Walhalla Oktoberfest

If you follow this blog, you may remember my friend Bonnie that was in the hospital at the same time as me and our boys were all in the NICU together. Bonnie lives hear Walhalla, which is a little over an hour away, so we make an effort to get together at least a few times a year. It's getting harder to actually "catch up" and have any real conversation with kids running in every direction, but I really enjoy being around her and letting the boys play and get to know each other.

At Oktoberfest, we also go to meet Bonnie's sister and her two nephews, so we had an army of little boys and some worn out parents!

Oktoberfest was awesome. They had lots of food stations, plenty of rides for the kids, bands that were playing (both traditional German music as well as current country tunes) and we all had a great time! The boys were ummm...how do I word this...disappointed when we were done with all of our ride tickets. That was fun (NOT). We were able to distract them by going back to the music and letting them dance and run around on the stage. The day also consisted of a lot of potty visits but they did a great job avoiding accidents!

The obligatory Oktoberfest kid picture
Can you tell it's fall, y'all!?!?

Oh, heyyyyy!

Playing on the stage during band transitions

Stokes on the tractor ride

Ryan and William on the tractor ride

The ride was playing Jason Aldean's song "Big Green Tractor"

So fun!

Handsome boys

Mama getting them unbuckled

Bonnie and Grant on the helicopter ride

Dada rode with William and Stokes while Ryan and I
sat back and watched

Whewwwwwww!!!!

Helicopter selfie

Dancing to the country singer!

William provided entertainment for all!

Stokes, Grant and William

So hard to get a pic with everyone looking!

Window of opportunity = gone

We stopped on the way home and got BBQ for dinner. The boys loved it and asked for seconds of several things! We got home late and the boys were so sleepy. I think we may be back for Oktoberfest in the future!

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Fall Festival 2016

Notice that the title of this post is "Fall Festival 2016". I want to note that the year is posted because this is apparently an annual event and we had such a great time that we definitely plan to go back next year and then I'll have a "Fall Festival 2017" post! This was the 8th annual festival at the boys' preschool and was so well done. I was definitely impressed with the planning and execution and just how awesome it was overall. It was a good day for a festival too because Clemson had played on Friday night, and USC's game got postponed to Sunday (thanks to Hurricane Matthew) so Saturday was free for the local football fans!

The festival invitation said for the kids to wear their Halloween costumes. Hey, I'm a planner by nature, but hello, it's mid-October and their costumes are not ready yet! Plus, I don't want to give them a head start on ruining their costumes before all the official Halloween festivities begin. That said, we found some dollar store accessories and paired it with a few things we had and came up with very cheap (and very cute!) pre-Halloween costumes!

Stokes was a train engineer, Ryan was a cowboy and
William was a pirate!

Since we had our favorite evacuees with us and they didn't have costumes to wear, MaSha, Tara and I ran out at nap time and pulled together two cute little color coordinated fairy costumes for Leece and Madison. All the kids looked so cute!

Getting the kids ready

We took a few minutes before we left to try to get some pictures of everyone.

All the kids before we went to the festival

Love these 5

The first people we saw when we arrived were Beth, Dom and Marlowe! I hadn't seen Marlowe in months and couldn't wait to see her! She was an adorable little unicorn

William, Marlowe, Ryan and Stokes

These 4 will be lifelong friends

Sweet unicorn!

They were so cute together!

Outside in the parking lot, they had live music, a red party firetruck, a popcorn machine, a tattoo/hair color station and pizza and chips!

Inside, there were different things in each of the classrooms. There was a dirt cake room where you could make your own dessert, a princess/hero room with Captain America and some Disney princesses, a critters room with a real snake, and some craft rooms (we missed those). There was so much going on and so much to do and see. We really didn't have time to fit it all in. We also ran into quite a few people we knew, which was so fun.