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Fall Harvest

Just down the road from my parent's house is a little gem that comes alive in the fall. This older couple sets up their barn with fun things for kids to do, along with a corn maze and pumpkins and mums. The best thing is, most of the stuff is free! The charge for the corn maze and the sell pumpkins and mums, but everything else is free. Logan loves to go there, and has made several visits this fall. We made our first visit in mid-September. Logan loves the corn pit and the barrel train. We love fall and all the fun activities that come with it. I have to admit that I am sad see the end of all the fall fun, but I guess I should rest up for all the holiday madness that will be here before I know it.

Logan loves going down this slide into the corn pit.

The barrel train is also a big hit

The man that owns this farm is so sweet and loves to take the kids on rides!

Corn is so much fun to play in.

The Unofficial Kick-off To Fall

The Highland Co. Fair always rolls around the first weekend of September. Even though fall is officially weeks away, it always feels like the start of fall. Sometimes, not this year, it is cool enough to pull out the jeans and boots and the evenings start getting cooler.

This year I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to take Logan because of the rainy weather that was predicted. I kept telling myself it would be okay if we missed a year, but deep in my heart I was disappointed. Well thanks to a change a plans and a little grace in the weather department we were able to go. We went on Sunday evening, and by the time we left, it was just starting to sprinkle. I was so happy we made it all evening with no rain. It was  a good thing we went, because the next day it poured!

We always have our usual things to see, the tractors, the pony rides, and the rides. We enjoyed some fresh squeezed lemonade and a shaved ice. My grandma joined us for the evening, because Logan insisted that she come to the fair with us. So the plan worked out and another year is now in the books.

Checking out some of the rodeo horses

His favorite part of the fair

A pony ride

Sitting on the hill, ready to watch the truck pulls

Church Picnic

Thank you so much for all the sweet comments on my classroom, it makes me happy to go there everyday. I can't believe how fast time is flying and I just saw the first Christmas commercial on TV-CRAZY. 

Our church did something new this year for the picnic, and we went to our local church camp to spend the day. We ate lots of great food then they had lots of activities to do. A lot of people took advantage of the zip-line. Logan was disappointed he was too small to do it. Madison and Logan did enjoy lots of pool time, miniature gulf and time on the playgroud. 

One of the zip-liners

Madison enjoying time with Aunt Weez

Logan going off the diving board

Madison enjoying some time poolside

Logan with his buddy Emma

Taking in a few rounds of minature golf

Enjoying the Noah's Ark play structure

Classroom Pictures

Wow, it has been a whirlwind week. I have been super busy with my contract evaluation, and parent teacher conferences. I managed to schedule my principal evaluation on the same day as parent teacher conferences, but it worked out for the best. I got everything out of the way in one day and now I can sit back and relax for at least a few minutes. So I am finally getting around to posting pictures of my classroom. For the most part, everything stays up for the year and I just add seasonal decorations. It does look a little more lived in after a month of living with 7 and 8 year olds and my desk isn't nearly as clean at the end of the day. I love how my room turned out this year. Since I am co-teaching, one of my concerns was picking a theme. We both decided a fun mix of bright colors, luckily we both have the same taste.

Goal!

We entered a new phase in life, soccer! This fall, Logan decided to give soccer a try. He had his first game on my first day back to work, but I wasn't about to miss it. For some reason his soccer association does practices on Saturday and games on Monday. It is about an hour drive for me so I haven't made it to too many games since then. It is so funny to watch 3 and 4 year old play soccer. I also counldn't get over how seriously parents take this sport at such a young age. Come on folks, some of them only learned to walk about 2 years ago!

Funny story- The Sunday before his first game, I was quizing Logan about playing soccer and asked him if he was the goalie. His response was what was the goalie do?  Well first position Logan played, goalie! It is not really his thing, at one point we looked over and he was tangled up in the goal. I think he is having fun. They are now working on being less aggressive, as in if you want the ball, you may not shove the other player out of the way! I hope this is something he will try again, as I feel they do get better with age.

All Aboard

I found a fantastic coupon deal for a local train museum and I knew it would be a perfect day out for Logan and me. I have to say, this summer I have become more comfortable driving in large cities, with the help of my trusty GPS.  So the two us set off on an adventure.  The plan was to leave early, so I could get back early and go work in my classroom. Well the plan didn't work out as expected, but it worked out perfect. We arrived at the museum and I saw lots of people outside and getting in their cars. I couldn't imagine why because they had just opened about an hour before. So we unload, get the camera ready and head inside. We walk in and are greeted by a nice man, who informs us that the electric is out and they don't expect it to come on for another 2-3 hours. So here we are an hour from home, coupons in hand and only a few free summer days left. So I moved on to plan B, which was to find something local to do, to kill two hours and then come back. I needed a trip to the teachers store so that was our first stop. Logan had fun in there, because they have toys and train sets to play with. In fact he kept asking me if that was the train mueseum! We then headed to a few other stores and finished off with lunch and playtime at Chick fil A. By that time it was time to head back to the museum and pray that the electric was back on. Thank goodness it was!  We spent three hours playing and enjoying the museum before heading home. Sure I didn't get to work at school that day but I got to spend extra time with Logan which was totally worth it.

Checking out the train display

Playtime at the train table

They had a cute motorized train you could ride.

Logan loved the hand pedal trains

Checking out the gift shop