A RECENT TRIP TO DISNEY!

Hot Diggety Dog!

Balance, tolerance, compromise, LOVE

Had to write a few things down about life today; not necessarily what is going on, but my thoughts of lessons and realizations I have about life in general and what I hope to gain, accomplish, and learn.

One is Balance. Learn to balance everyday chores, juggling schedules, caring, playing, and loving (my)children, giving and spending time with my husband, giving and spending time with extended family members is not an easy task. Everyone has to learn how to do this. Now that I will be opening the daycare again, the art of balancing all these things will be an even harder task. I hope I do it with patience and grace.

Second, is tolerance. It has been brought to my attention that I am a very determined and demanding person. That I have an expectation of how I accomplish tasks in my life, and expect others to accept my way of things. I am trying my hardest to learn to be tolerant of other people's ideas and thoughts about things that are important to me in my life.

Compromise, kind of goes with the idea of tolerance. Learning to compromise and deviate from what I think it right is not an easy task for me. I guess you would cal this stubbornness. But, I want to be a person whose is able to compromise with an open heart, yet not compromise so much that I am compromising who I am! Again, it is a unique balance I think!

LOVE! I am doing my best just to love and accept everyone in my life; Love everyone for who they are and what they have to share with me and my family. Learning to count my blessings in ALL circumstances is a lesson I am still learning.

Harvest Festival

Silly Boys!
Yeah! WE MADE IT!

TOO PRECIOUS!
COW + TRAINS = HAPPY BOY!
The pumpkin gatherer. He actually tried to pick up the really big ones, but after several attempts went happily back to the smaller pumpkin. Actually he was in awe of the huge tractor behind the pumpkins you don't see.
BELIEVE OR NOT BUT THEY DIDN'T SPILL THE BEANS!
HALF WAY THROUGH THE CORN MAZE
ahhhhhh, cute!
Drive that tractor! too cute, it matched his shirt!


This last weekend, October 3rd, we went to a Harvest Festival in Moorpark with the boys and Nina and Brian. We had a great time. It was such a beautiful fall day. The Underwood Family farms is such a great place to go. They have all kinds of animals and games and music. So much fun! We actually went there one year ago, lots has changed since then.

We listened to a group called the Hollow trees, then visited some animals, played on the wooden train, watched the piglet races, walked through the corn maze (we made it through the whole maze this year, but we followed an employee to get to the haystack center), let the boys play in bean box, let the ALL the boys take a cow train ride, then took a horse drawn wagon ride around the farm. A wonderfully beautiful day.

It didn't end there. We went back to Nina and Brian's place for some relaxation, good conversation and pizza, YUM!