It's (kinda) Fall!

The weather might not say so, but it's official...Fall has arrived!!! After a long hot summer, I always welcome the season. I love all the cliché fall things...except pumpkin spice anything. Yuck. Daniel really wanted to decorate for fall outside the house, so we found some cute things at a farmer's market.

Avery had fun helping.

 

And the final product. Minus the cute kid. I think it turned out pretty good. And those corn stalks came from our field. Saved us a few bucks.

 

Daniel was off this week, so we decided to go to the pumpkin patch one day after school. There's one in Meridianville called Tate Farms. Luckily our niece works there and since we are family we all got in free. More savings. Woop woop.

 

Colt willingly took this picture. No bribery necessary.

 

This girl loves to pose for pictures.

 

Colt is catching up to big sis quickly! This chart said "How tall this fall". Too cute.

 

I think this was to pull pumpkins....

 

My little billy goat.

 

We made it through the hay bale maze!!

 

Is this not the cutest thing you've ever seen?! I wanted to steal that baby goat.

 

We also got to pet the rabbits. Colt asked fifty times to pet one, then literally stroked it one time and was done.

 

They had these big bouncy bubbles. I'm surprised we were able to get them away from these fun things!

 

Fun sliding.

 

Being silly.

 

We were lucky to catch the last hay ride of the night. So many pumpkins to choose from!! We picked out two beauties, then Daniel got us two sqatty flat ones. We are officially ready for fall.

 

And a few pictures on the way out. What a fun way to spend the afternoon. One more thing to check off our fall bucket list.



Alabama Homecoming

Whew! It's hard to get a second to myself these days to actually sit down and blog. I'm not the best at making the most of my time. Oh, well...something else to work on.

Last weekend was homecoming at our alma mater, the University of Alabama. Since Avery was born we have tried to go to Tuscaloosa and see the parade each year. We were blessed to get to go down this year. Luckily the parade started at 1:00 so we had plenty of time to get down there.

We always eat lunch at the Ferg, so that's where we started. I was sad to see the Ferg has changed so much I barely recognized it. I have so many fun memories there with Daniel, and I wanted it to be the same. I was glad that I went to UA when I did...otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford it! It amazes me how much things cost these days. But I digress...

We had a good lunch, then went downstairs to the Supe Store (which was also completely different...boo) to stock up on tattoos and shakers then headed toward the Quad.

 

You can't go to T-town without seeing this fella. Avery gladly posed for a picture.

 

This child had to be bribed to go near Big Al.

 

It obviously didn't work. This is classic Colt. I love pictures like this. He's too funny.

 

He turned that frown upside down when he got to the bounce house.

 

We had to tear them away from this so we wouldn't miss the parade.

 

We were ready with our stickers, tattoos, and shakers. We got a prime spot on the front row and patiently waited for the parade. We were at the very end of it, so we had to wait a while. It was worth it. We had so much fun watching everyone in the parade. Colt was so cute waving to everyone. Avery learned she could give high fives to all the Suzies and had a blast.

 

Love that face. He was watching so intently before he got up and waved to everyone.

 

If anyone wants to claim these girls, they were very rude and pushed their way to the front and just stood in front of everyone. Not cool...

 

I hope we can continue this tradition every year until we are visiting Avery and Colt at Alabama and maybe watch them act a fool on the Mallet float, or be tipsy on the law school float. A mom can dream! Roll Tide Roll!!



Getting Behind

Our computer has been messed up for about a week, so I got a little behind on my blogging. You'll have to excuse the overload of Baccus kid cuteness.

A couple weeks ago I got the kids in the car to take Avery to school, and something didn't feel right as I was driving down the driveway. This might have been why...

That was the flattest tire I've ever seen. For some reason God didn't want Avery to go to school that day. Daniel NEVER gets home from work before we leave for school. He just happened to get home at 5:30 and was already asleep. So I took the car seats out and went to put them in Daniel's car. This happened to be the day Daniel went looking for the spare and took the key off the ring. You don't wake a man up who just worked all night, and there was no way to get Avery to school otherwise. So...we played hookey.

 

I promptly got on Pinterest and found some fun fall crafts for us to do. They made a candy corn banner out of a paper plate and a football out of a handprint.

 

Our finished product. As I was looking through the pictures I realized we never finished the footballs and I have no idea where the handprints are...whoops.

 

We also got out Avery's favorite thing to do, the Cricut, and made a cute Halloween sign.

 

We ate Halloween Oreos and made some cupcakes. Doesn't Colt look excited to ice his?

 

When Daniel woke up he put the spare tire on and got me a brand new tire. Avery helped...

 

 

I hate that she had to miss a day of school for a flat tire, but we had a fun day at home. They next day we went to Birmingham to celebrate all our September birthdays.

 

Avery loves Memaw. It was her birthday on Sunday, and she was a sprite 91 that day! Meme and Anne also had birthdays we were celebrating. Avery loves playing with Jack, too.

 

My cousin Wade and his wife had a baby a few weeks ago, and I got to meet him at the birthday party. So sweet and little. Gives me a little baby fever...

 

I made these cupcakes that I found on Pinterest. They are like dreamsicles, and they are the best cupcakes I've ever eaten. Avery actually ate hers instead of just eating the icing.

 

Avery had a project for school where she had to make a poster of her family. Daniel was the project manager, and it turned out really cute.

 

I am so proud of Avery's handwriting. She does an awesome job with her letters.

 

A big thing in our little town is the Lincoln County Fair. So many times I've asked someone where something is, and they use the fairgrounds as a marker. I still only recently noticed the fairgrounds and only because it's right next to Avery's school. Because of this we saw them setting it up the week prior, and the anticipation was almost too much! We went on Daniel's night off, and although it about broke the bank, it didn't disappoint!

 

First things first, we had to measure the kids to see what rides they could do. Colt was at the exact minimum height which meant he could ride some of them alone.

 

This was our first ride. It was a good one to begin with because it was super slow, and they could ride it alone.

 

Daniel was the brave lad who rode this one with the kids. He found out it was like the teacup ride with a steering wheel. It made me sick just watching them.

 

Then it was my turn. This airplane goes up in the air in a circle. I didn't know it would go that high. I was trying to keep my eyes focused on one thing and then I thought it was stopping. Nope, it was just going in the opposite direction. Not fun...

 

The fair had all kinds of animal shows and animals for sale. These little horses were so cute! We also saw goats, pigs, and donkeys. There was also a big track where we saw horses pulling men in carts.

 

You can't go to a fair and not get a funnel cake. By the time Daniel had gotten all our food the funnel cake wasn't hot anymore and he wasn't impressed. It was ok though, because he got Philly cheesesteak fries which were amazing! Daniel also had fun throwing popcorn in the kids' mouths.

 

 

He tried a ton of times and I just happened to get this one on video. I couldn't stop laughing.

 

After dinner it was time to ride some more rides. This was Avery's favorite. It was a mini roller coaster, and Avery was laughing the whole time. So much fun.

 

Colt wanted to ride this one. The cars go around slowly until you get to the turn, and it whips you around really hard. It was pretty funny. Every time Colt would whip around you could barely see him smile through his paci.

 

 

 

Then it was time for Avery and me to ride the Ferris wheel. It doesn't look that high until you get up there...yikes. And then we got stuck at the top for what seemed like forever. Once it got going it was fun, but it sure was high! The fair was a success, and we can't wait to go back next year!

 

And one more picture for you. As we were walking into the library the other day, Colt fell and scraped his head, elbow, and knee. So traumatic for a 2-year-old, but he picked himself up and played with the train table for the next hour.