Samantha had a GREAT 3rd birthday yesterday. The first thing she wanted to do this morning was go outside and ride her bike. It was like 40 degrees outside. For crying out loud Sami! Anyhow, she had a great day.
We had a very eventful day today as well. We had "mom and kid day". I guess you could call it that. Scott worked, as usual. Jason worked too. He always works on Saturdays, but that's ok. It's when he gets his hours in.
So, Kathie came over with Aiden and Lauren, Jourdan and her friend Noel, John and Sami...we all piled into the Excursion and went to Burger King for lunch. That was expensive with all the kids. I spent over $30! Totall ridiculous for Burger King food, that's why I hate going to eat there. Mc Donalds isn't much better!
Sorry, got off track. We went to lunch and then tried to decide where we wanted to go for pumpkins. We've tried different places over the years, Tina told us to go out south of town to Heidi's because they have a corn maze. But I drive by there twice a day when I work and the pumpkins look a little small and they are .25 cents a pound. That could add up when you're talking about pumpkins for four kids, plus Scott. Can't forget him, he's into pumpkin carving. lol
Scott happened to be on his way home from work and he said we should go to Poulson's on M-44 in Belding. We've been by there a million times and it's a family farm that has a huge stand set up selling fruit and veggies throughout the spring, summer, and fall seasons. I figured they would be way expensive, but we decided to check it out anyhow. There were two other stands on the way there so if Poulson's was too expensive we could go someplace else.
So, we pull into this farm and they had pumpkins that had to be 100 pounds, they were fucking HUGE! I've never seen pumpkins as big as these. I was completely impressed. They were selling apples, peppers, and many other goodies. They also had gourds of all shapes and sizes, indian corn, and squash. Then they had these huge crates full of pumpkins that were .25 a piece, a little bigger were 3/$1.00, and then they had rows and rows of pumpkins that were .50 cents up to $6.00 each. So, I was very impressed with the prices.
You know the little pumkins you see that are a little bigger than softballs and are painted with cute faces on them? Well, they had several crates of these and they were 3/$1.00. So I bought 9 of them so the kids could paint them and set them around the house. John picked out a bunch of gourds that are dark green, orange, yellow, blue, etc to fill my big glass bowl. I usually have cinnamon pine cones in it and it sits on top of the cupboard with other stuff. I removed the pine cones and Jourdan made an arrangement with the gourds and the indian corn. I have a bay window in my kitchen and that is the proud new place for our festive fall bowl.
So the kids picked out their pumpkins, all big ones of course. I bought 2 extra $1 pumpkins to paint and put in my planters on the front porch. The flowers are dead now and the front of the house looks dreadful. We don't usually do much decorating for halloween, Christmas is my thing. But this stuff was cheap and the kids were so excited.So,
You may not know this about me, but I'm a really crafty person. My highschool art teacher seriously wanted me to attend Kendall Art School in Grand Rapids when I graduated. My parents wanted me to go to Davenport University for Accounting and Business Mgt. Guess who won?
Anyhow, I have a creative flair and I'm pretty good when it comes to painting etc. So, we'll paint these smaller pumpkins and decorate the house that way. A week from now, we'll carve the bigger pumpkins. I don't want them to rot and two weeks is too long to have them carved. Plus, it's been downright warm here.
So, we paid for the pumpkins and loaded them into the back of my truck and I saw a tractor pull up with this huge trailor behind it full of straw. (yes straw, even though they called it a "hay" ride). We had the kids in the truck and buckled in, but I ran over to the counter and asked the lady how much for the hay ride. She tells me it's free. No shit? Nothing is free these days, but I did just spend $28 on pumpkins!
So we all pile out again and we get into the trailor and take a half hour or so hay ride. The kids totally loved it. I thought about bringing my camera but thought, how silly for buying pumpkins. Duh! I took a great picture with my phone, but I don't have email. So, I sent it to Kathie and she'll email it to me and then I'll post it.
We discovered this family farm has an orchard, they grow grapes, they grow every type of vegetable you can think of, and they have miles and miles of pumpkins of every size. It was the coolest thing. We went down this little hill, then back up and over the top of a hill and there were little orange pumpkins covering the ground. Behind that were woods filled with trees that had orange, red, and yellow leaves. The sun was shining and it was the most beautiful fall picture.
It's been a long time since I have felt stress free. But today, for a while, I did feel stress free. Sami sat in my lap under a blanket and didn't even speak a word because she was just amazed by everything she saw. The kids kept saying, "mom, look at that". We decided that it was probably deer heaven in the evening with all the pumpkins and vegetables that were there.
It was a warm and sunny day and the kids had a great time. The mom's did too. I haven't had such a nice day in a really long time and I'm so glad that Kathie and I took Scott's advice.
Tomorrow, we'll paint our pumpkins. I got online and copied and pasted a bunch of cute pumpkin faces to give us ideas on how to paint them. They are very excited! They wanted to paint them right away, but Scott and I had a dinner date. So I'll be posting photo's of the kids artwork....hopefully tomorrow. :)
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