Fall Festival 2012

Now, this time, it IS my last post!  I'm getting tired and I should have gone to bed long ago!  But, alas, here I am!!  I hope you have enjoyed a little bit of what we have been up to lately!  Here's just a few more of fall festival - there were inflatables, tons of games, popcorn, cotton candy, hot dogs, dunk tank (and we missed Eric doing that!  the kids would have LOVED seeing that!), face painting and spray painting hair and talking to friends, and more!!!  With two little ones and a husband who is helping with the festival, mama can only do so much!  So we enjoyed the inflatables, face painting, and spray painting hair the most!!  CHECK IT OUT!

Stanley enjoying a hug from one of our favorite sitters, Carleigh!!

Face painting!

Sorry for the blue football, Stanley, no you may notcheer for UK football! :)  Seriously, living in SEC land is brutal!
Just kidding, southern friends, I just like to joke about it!

Look close - Stanley's hair is green (like Percy!) and Clara's is pink!
They loved checking that out in the mirror when we got home!

Playing around with friends when Daddy was helping clean up!
What a fun day!!

Well, if you have read all my 4 or (was it 5) posts from me today, you have stuck it out!
Thanks for being patient with all my details!  Life has been busy and it looks like it will continue through November and December, we have some fun trips planned!!

As always, thanks for stopping!
Love,
Kendra

EVEN MORE OCTOBER FUN!!...

 We have enjoyed a busy weekend - it was full of pumpkin carving and painting, birthday parties, and our church's annual fall festival!!  The kiddos are truly exhausted!!  And, so are mom and dad!  

Pumpkin painting and carving...Clara painted for about a total of 5 minutes and my "difficult-to-focus-jumps-from-one-activity-to-the-next" Stanley loves painting - he stayed with it, I bet for almost an hour!!  And, Daddy carved the pumpkins...we attempted and semi-failed at our "Block O."  Sorry we will not be sharing pictures of that!  Here's a little of the kids having some fun!

 Yesterday after both our birthday parties, Brody came to play with Stanley...Brody is a sweet friend from our church.  Once again, our boy is surrounded by SEC born and raised friends -- Brody is a Mississippi State fan!
Staying strong in the south -- our boy will wear Buckeye gear as long as we have a say about it! :)

Today, we had our church fall festival - it started with church this morning at Ballard Park, here's a view from where we sat, only a picture of the little handful of the people that came to worship outside on this a-little-bit-chilly fall day!!  I do have to say this though...Eric was concerned about how cold it was going to be, I did have to remind him that we are from Ohio, and 50s is still not THAT cold! I hate to say it, are we being brain washed?!  Oh my!!

Stanley's technology generation, they played with stickers the first half (so old school!), and by the 2nd half, I hate to admit it, the iPhone was out!

I'm new to this blogging stuff, so for some reason the last pics I wanted to post are not being placed where I want them, so I lied, I'm doing one more post...

As always, thanks for stopping!!
Love,
Kendra

More October FUN...

Next up, a weekend in the Bluegrass - my ole' Kentucky home - Lexington!  It was the first time to be back in the Bluegrass since we moved in January, and boy was it sweet!!  Our friends, Merissa and Kinley (1) Rambo, and Clara and I made the trip.  The girls were such troopers as they stomped around with Merissa and I as we were both nostalgic about being back!  I was thankful that I was with Merissa because she is just as cheesy about places, restaurants, memories as I am!!  I was so thankful to stay with dear friends, Diane and Kathi Munoz, visited with hospice friends, seminary friends, and church friends - and I got to travel and chat with Merissa!  It was just a sweet, sweet time!!  Here's a little view of our time...

Lunch at one of our favorite restaurants -- Sahara...

Mediterranean food!  YUM!  It did not disappoint, even our girls loved it!!  

 Next, stop, Boyds Orchard

in Versailles - a frequent 

stop in the fall when we lived there, it was fun to take our younger two!  They loved the wagon ride!

LOVE THE JOY OF PLAYING!

Clara is not too sure of animals...at this age Stanley LOVED this animal part
of Boyd's Orchard!!

PRECIOUS!

Love these little girls!!  Now that's precious!

Here's another one that I need to set beside a pic
of Stanley at this age, I'm sure they would look exactly the same!
That's for another day!

Mom, PLEASE STOP taking pictures!

 

Out to dinner for Diane's birthday - we got to spend her birthday
week with her!

Well, I have to admit, I talked Diane into going to Culver's for
her birthday dessert, that may have been more my favorite than hers, but
she loves ice cream too!

KISSES!

Yep, yep!  That's my daugther - a girl after my own heart - enjoying
her first Lexington original Spalding's donut!!  Now look at that excitement! 

 There you have it, a little "taste" of what we enjoyed while in Lexington!  We are thinking about making it an annual trip!!  Oh what fun memories!!  We were only there for a short time, we put a lot into our little trip, I hate that I wasn't able to see everyone I would have loved to see!!  

As always, thanks for stopping, come back soon, another post is coming!!:)

Love, Kendra

October Fun!

October has been a lot of fun for us...so I'd like to share a little here with you!  I will try to narrow down my pictures, but I have to admit from the beginning that I may have a difficult time with that...so enjoy anyways - I know none of you are surprised with this confession!  :)  

We had a fun family outing to a pumpkin patch in Blue Mountain, MS...the kids loved all the activities and they didn't want to leave!  Here's a few pics of our energetic, independent, and kissable kiddos enjoying the day...

Eric went to a conference in Memphis, TN, with The Orchard staff, so instead of hanging out by ourselves for several days, we invited our dear friends from seminary to come stay with us - Naomi, Patrick (3), and Vivian (1 - Clara and Vivian share birthdays!) from Union Springs, AL (just 4 hours from us, I will say Naomi was one of the only friends and family who were excited we were moving to the south - it was closer to her!!).  Naomi and I did laugh a good number of times, somehow we thought this was going to be a girl weekend (which it was), but it was also with 4 children, 3 and under.  Needless to say, there was some meltdowns, temper tantrums, giggles, and lots of fun, too (the first two, unfortunately were more by my kiddos - I guess it's rough to have others come in on your toy territory!)  :)  We did get a sitter (thanks Carleigh!) one night and enjoyed a dinner out by ourselves - I was glad we thought of that!!  Anyways, I would do it again, and we just may...both our husbands are pastors and will have conferences from time to time, so we see it in our future again, and I'm sure as the children get older, it will become easier!  Here's a few pics from our time together...

Our April's fools babies - or not-so-babies

Stanley still loves his trains, and thank goodness,
Patrick enjoys trains, too!  I'm not sure any of Stanley's friends
still love trains as much as Stanley does!  They were proud of one of their
many train stations they set up!

The four munchkins

We have these boys in the same crib several years ago,
I need to find the old pic and put them beside each other!
They are growing up!!

Our little cheerleaders...Big Ten and SEC...
that's all I'll say for now...

I love this pic, I picture Patrick trash talkin' the buckeyes
here, I guess that's what we get for moving our Big Ten kids into
SEC territory...War Eagle VS Buckeyes!

Clara's face is hilarious here, if you zoom in
(which I'm not savvy enough to do), she may
be doing some trash talkin' here, too!

Too stinkin' cute...that's all I gotta say...2 families
joined with completely different loves in football teams!

It was such a beautiful weekend to share with

 them -- thanks for coming to visit O'Reilly's!!

Coming up, my visit to the Bluegrass!!  I think I'll start a new post!  
As always, thanks for stopping and being tolerant of all my pics which really reflects my indecisiveness on the bounties of pictures I take!!

As always, thanks for stopping, and come back soon, I'll have another post shortly!!

Love,
Kendra