Harvest Festival

On Saturday we headed to a local harvest festival for the morning. Caleb is finally old enough to really enjoy stuff like this, so I knew he'd have a good time. Throw in some popcorn and cotton candy and you've got the makings for a wonderful time.

They had a petting zoo, pumpkin painting, face painting, a hay ride, and a couple of bouncy castles. Caleb wanted to do it all!

checking out the petting zoo

his first taste of pumpkin

Caleb wanted a spider on his face

my boys on the hay ride

hanging out in the stroller

(if you look closely you can see his one and only tooth peeking out)

my sweet boys

We had a great time and will probably make this festival an annual thing. Lots to do, and did I mention it was completely free? Well, it was. Can't beat that.

I'm still planning on taking the boys to another little pumpkin patch we go to every year to pick out pumpkins towards the end of the month. I'm hoping it'll feel a little more like fall by then, cause I can't miss out on taking our annual pumpkin patch pictures.

Remember Caleb's first trip?

and then last year?

Can't believe how big he'll be this year!

The waters keep coming

It's rained ALOT here in the past few weeks.  So much, in fact, that there is some major flooding in certain parts of the city.  Well, Charles really wanted to go check out the Mississippi River with the boys, so we headed downtown to see the water and have dinner.

Riverside Drive

A nice man offered to take a picture of all four of us.  You can see Riverside Drive right behind us, and out in the river you can see what's left of Mud Island.

 Headed back to the car.

I didn't take any pictures at dinner, but we met up with Charles' family (most of them, at least) and after dinner I took the boys home and everyone else headed to the Grizzlies game.  It was a fun afternoon/evening, and I'm glad we got some pictures of, most likely, the biggest flood we'll ever see.

A Trip to the Zoo

Last week we finally got some dry, warm weather so we headed to the zoo.  It was Ethan's first trip to the zoo, and Caleb hadn't been since the fall, so I was looking forward to seeing his reaction to all the animals. He liked all the animals, but he really liked the monkeys and asked to see them again several times.  The monkeys were always my favorite too.  Here are a few pictures from our day at the zoo. 

Checking out the giraffes.

Hanging with RayRay.

Getting ready to ride the train.  He has a fairly recent LOVE of trains.

Safari man.

Banging on the glass at the meerkats.

Me and my littlest man.

I'm really looking forward to getting to spend more days at the zoo now that the rain has died down a bit and the sun is out.