Enter fall. I do love this time of year. We had it down in Germany, pumpkin patch, pumpkin carving, fall cookies, family pictures in the beautiful woods with amazing fall colors, fall decorations, pumpkin everything, Thanksgiving at our house with friends, fall crafts, and the list can go on.
This year is hard, all the familiar is gone, I have no idea where to go to make some of these things happen, there are no woods in West Texas (unless you count the Mesquite bushes) my decorations are somewhere in military storage till we close on a house, as well as my craft stuff. At first I felt guilty - poor children what will they think - ha, as if they care!! I don't know any better, so I had to take a breath and realize we are still transitioning, we are still getting use to, and we are still figuring everything out. Give yourself a break, I told myself. I am working on it. I know this Thanksgiving and Christmas will not be what we are use to, but with that we grow and we do the best we can with the circumstances we find ourselves in.
I will not be able to accomplish 90% of my fall traditions, but we did do something fun and new this weekend. Fiddlestick Farm, It was different, very American, and a little overpriced, but it was fun. We all needed a family outing, especially since Nate is working full time now.
It was a beautiful, sunny, and windy West Texas day, and that part delivered. Good-bye gloomy Germany and no sunshine. I can live with that.
I have never been to something like this before, so it was a first for me. Then I also learned that Nate has never been through a corn maze before. My thought was what is wrong with you - you are American right? According to movies and TV shows corn mazes are normal in American society - turns out not so much. So in the end it was all of our first time figure out how to navigate a corn maze, well a dead corn maze at that. But it was still fun.
We navigated our way through the corn maze, and had to stop several times to chuckled because we were honestly a little lost. The kids of course thought it was all a big set-up and that we were only pretending and that made it all the more funny. We had to stop several time to admire some left behind corn, and hurl it back into the corn field, to stop and hide a few feet in front of the others and jump out to scare them. A big dosage of sunshine, family time, and laughter is exactly what we needed. Oh, and we made it out of the maze!
Hayleigh and I slipped away for a few minutes and found this little fun game. We decided to call it "throw the bean bag in the hole," since I have no idea what is is actually called, and this seemed to make sense to a two year old as well. She loved it, and we played this work a good little bit, while Nate and Ian went on a small adventure of their own.
She is hilarious, and actually did pretty good.
This is as good as our pumpkin patch gets this year...
I have come to acceptance.
We explored the farm...
We went down the slide...
ok we went down multiple times.
We collected coins...
or as the call it, farm tokens.
We played in the giant sandbox.
We attempted to get a few posed pictures, but the call for ice cream was louder then my voice of reasoning. Little people gets side tracked so easily. They will sit for one pictures (if you don't specify to look at the camera, the don't) and you your one shot is over. I settled for that that, and ice cream called our name. Well I did get two photos.
Just like that our day was over. The sun was setting slowly, and the kids were exhausted. It turned out to a perfect and fun day.
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News on the house! They countered our offer, but we did accept it because it was still reasonable. We are waiting on them to sign the papers (they live in Germany - so it takes a little longer with the time difference.) We are so excited. Will keep everyone posted.
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Happy Monday!
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