The Last First 11/26/12

Today marked the last of the firsts for my littlest man! Today, the baby turned 1 year old! And I went through my day remembering every little bit of that day last year. The day I gave birth to my last baby!

I am so happy to have this little guy in my life. He has made me smile each and every day. If I was sad or upset, he got me into a better mood each and every time! His smile lights up my heart! the story of today, a year ago...

Around 10 PM the night before my sweet boy came into my life I was being admitted and told they were going to break my water and we were having a baby because he was a full day over due! I was supposed to have my little guy on Thanksgiving Day 2011. He obviously had other plans! I had NO contractions what so ever on Thanksgiving. And hardly any the next day. But that night I had a few really good ones so I called my doctor and in we went! By 12:30 AM on 11/26/11 My water had been broken and we were ready to go! They gave me some pain medication once the contractions were really hurting and I received a few heat packs to keep my back pain to a bearable point. I, as is normal for me, fell asleep during some point of labor (I think this is my body really getting to that point of knowing it is about time to push so it just shuts down for a bit) and when I woke up I wanted more pain medication but she said she could only give me one more of that kind so if I wanted to wait it out just a bit longer I could. I tried that, it didn't work out too well. I ended up getting more and this caused my contractions to almost stop!

So, they bumped up the pitocin and we were rolling again! They had me at 12 drops per minute at one point and that is pretty high! Everything went great for a bit... As long as you weren't ME! The pain was starting to get worse and all I wanted to do was make it stop! My nurse (who turns out was the mother of my oldest son's bully in school!) suggested I try standing for a little while. I had NEVER tried to stand while in labor before so I figured why not, let's try! This was my last pregnancy after all! So at about 10 AM on November 26th I stood there holding on to my Husband and crushing his arms during each contraction that seemed to come closer and closer together. Almost as if they did not break between them. Finally I caved and asked my nurse to give me the pain medication I am allergic to (it makes me vomit and on top of everything else I did not want that as well!) and she informed me that she would need to check my cervix one more time before she could do that. Sure enough, I was dilated to 10 cm and as she was "finishing" her check and removing her hand, my body decided it was time to push! I involuntarily gave a good push and my nurse let the doctor know to get in there quick that it was time to have a baby! The doctor barely got her gloves on and to the table as push number two came (again without my being able to stop it) and Baby Boy followed right with it and I am thankful that she had a great catch! He was born so fast that I was almost in shock at the time. They put him on my chest and he wasn't even crying. I knew that he needed to do that so I asked him to please cry and sure enough he did! There was my baby, handsome as ever! He weighed 9 pounds 0.4 ounces and was 21 1/4 inches in length!

I had to step away from this little guy just 7.5 hours after he was born and go into surgery. I was having my tubes tied. The hope was just to do the surgery and then bring me back to the room. However, I had a slight panic attack and ended up having to be "put under" so that they could finish the surgery in peace! LOL! I was then taken to recovery for an hour or two. That is the only chunk of time I do not have a great memory of due to the amnesia effects of the medications they had to inject into my system! I do remember wanting to get back to my baby so I could nurse him and hold him and just simply be with him! We were released the next afternoon and sent on our way to go be a family with his 3 older brothers! His youngest older brother was leaving just a few days later to go spend time with his Aunt so we really wanted to get home so that he could spend a little bit of time with his baby brother before he left.

But! Only 6 days after this guy was born we were on our way back to the hospital! The doctor thought I had a spinal headache from having an epidural for the surgery (not for delivery, only IV medications for me! LOL) when they took me into the room I asked for the light to be off because I couldn't handle it. They turned it off and then they took my blood pressure, well, tried to at least! It was so high that the machine couldn't even read it. they had to try 3 more times and on the 4th try they got a reading of 205/98! Yikes! The even scarier part was my BP that high with my pulse being super low! My pulse was in the 40's! So they started to give me more medicines and kept me laying down and calm (or as calm as one can be when they are freaking out on top of all of that!) and the room dark! I was readmitted to the hospital in the labor and delivery section and my new baby and husband were allowed to stay there with me! They pumped me full of different BP medications and magnesium until I was back to a normal BP. They determined that I am a freak! LOL! (That was my doctor's exact words!) I had developed Postpartum Preeclampsia. This is so rare that my doctor had only had one other patient have it happen that far out in 30 years! He said that it didn't normally happen that long after having baby and was caught a lot sooner! I hadn't even thought of calling my doctor until 6 hours after a Vicodin didn't even begin to touch my headache! LOL! In any case, I obviously got better... Here I am typing this little story to you!

COOKIE FACE!

Now, a year later, my little guy is still a dinky guy! But he is full of spunk, character and LOVE! Lots and lots of love! I am also very proud to say that this guy has been breast fed for a full year! With only minimal amounts of formula that he spit up 99.9% of anyways! (Take that, nurse who started giving it to him while I went to the bathroom!) He loves his nursing times and I am not sure he plans on stopping any time soon. He has backed off a bit but he still nurses like crazy! Specially at night! He is for sure a night drinker/eater! LOL! Just like with all my boys I can not wait to see who he is going to grow up to be! I love him so much!

Now that I have just rambled and rambled on about what happened to me a year ago...

Let's come back to today! I have below some of my favorite photos from today. I hope everyone enjoys them! Here they come! Enjoy!

The cake!
Made with love, by Mom!
Red Velvet with blue colored vanilla frosting and chocolate in the middle!

"My cake!"

"You mean I only get this small piece?"

"Well, it does taste alright...."

"I do NOT know what happened to that Smurf! I swear!"

Too good to pick up!

"Nom nom nom!!!"

"What?!?! It was yummy!!!!"

"Hooray for more Giraffe toys!"
The only "good" picture of gift time my phone let me have!
I swear, unless the lighting is just right I do not get good photos!

There it is folks! My baby is officially a whole year old! No more "months" Well, maybe! I usually stop that about 18 months old! LOL! So, maybe another 6 months. But he will always be MY baby! I am not one of those people who says the months all the time.... If I was, I'd have to say I am 323 months old! MAN! I AM old! LOL! I had this conversation with my favorite Starbucks employee today and he reminded me of the part in the movie Grown Ups when Chris Rock asks Kevin James how old his son is and Kevin replies with "48 months!"..... Chris replies "That's 4!" LOL I just so happened to have my 4 year old with me who said to tell them that the baby can walk too, (which yes, sadly, he has taken a bunch of unassisted steps... Grrr .. I want him to slow down on the growing up thing! LOL) so I said, "My 48 month old wants to you know the baby can walk too!" and he replied "THAT'S 4!" LOL! Anyways, that is how today went. Now all my boys are in bed and I am about to do the same! Take care!

~TTFN!

From 6 to 7... Years! (And some Black Friday Talk!)

I have been bad about getting posts up here on time. I know, and sorry! LOL

His"this gift is Awesome!" face!

 My second child turned 7 on the 17th! He had an Angry Birds "themed" party. Only a few decorations (the cake and paper plates and napkins) were about all he had that truly was Angry Birds. Also he had rings on his "cake"! I attempted to make and Angry Birds scene using square cupcakes and bar cakes. This did not turn out as I had planned. I ended up having glob-o-cake chunks! He had picked out his cake flavor (orange!) and his little brothers(red velvet, baby boy's birthday is this next Monday!) and he chose triple chocolate fudge chunk frosting to top it off with! I had planned to use the frosting as a sort of cement. And that did not work out as planned. I had even made one of the "window" blocks. I had it held up with toothpicks. It fell over before I could even attempt to finish! It looked cool while it lasted (no photo however, was not using my brains while doing this, obviously!) and I am sure he would have loved it! He enjoyed his cake anyways and ended up eating the entire thing as of last night. His older brother did not care for it so him and his younger brother (4 year old) finished it off! I told them they had to do this before tonight so that I can hopefully bake a new cake for the babies birthday either tonight or tomorrow. Next year, ONE cake, cut in half and used for BOTH birthdays! Only two people in this house truly love cake and they are going to get sick from eating 2 whole cakes between the two of them! (the 7 and 4 year olds) However, It was fun to make!

The "cake"!

Plus, He LOVED it! The trees in the back and the Happy Birthday burst are both things that we have used for almost all of the birthdays in the last year or so. And Blue candles because that is his "favorite" and designated color! LOL. We can always tell what belongs to who by its color! The oldest has Yellow. Next, Blue. Then the 4 year old has Red and the baby gets green, purple or pink by default! LOL! This actually works out in our favor. If something that we buy that is color coded gets broken, we know who it belonged to and we don't have any guessing games to play.

We started the Birthday "celebrations" by kicking off the morning of the now 7 year olds birthday with a trip to Shari's for breakfast. Little man was oh so seriously looking over his menu and picking what he wanted. He chose Saltine Crackers and a packet of creamer(giving to him by my mother, which is tradition. All of my boys have gotten a coffee creamer packet from my mother around this age)! He also had bites of my Mother's Spring Spinach omelet and we found he really likes blue cheese and spinach! We ended up taking part of that omelet home and blended it up and he got to eat it for lunch that day too!

The birthday boy ordered an Oreo Cookie Milkshake with his breakfast! The waitress was even nice enough to top it off with Whipped topping and Birthday Sprinkles! When we were on our way to town he had said he wanted McDonald's and that just didn't sound good to my mom and I so we talked him into Shari's and he asked if it was free pie day. I told him no, that was Wednesdays but since it was his birthday he could probably get one. Well, with all intentions of buying him a slice of pie, our waitress asked him if he wanted a slice of "birthday" pie, since he spent the entire time telling EVERYONE it was his birthday. He got the largest grin ever on his face and said yes please, s'mores pie! And shortly she was back with his slice in a to go box and we were on our way!

After breakfast we headed over to a kid's sale that only happens once every 6 months and my mom and I just so happened to hit both 2012 sales this year and we look forward to their next sale in March 2013! I spent $59 on the clothes in the photos below and then turned around and spent an extra $4 on a toy/gift for the 4 year old that should help him with school next year! (It is Little Einstein! I love them!)

Sorry some are sideways, I got distracted while flipping some of them the right way.... Enjoy....

All of the clothes together!
(Jackets pictured below)

The 2 thinner material pajamas I picked up for little man!
Top: Monkeys with Monkey feet with ears! By Carters
Bottom: Alphabet words (A for Apple, B for Bear...etc)

Cloth Diaper inserts (4 for $4)
Baby Speed-o! LOL
Rubber soled sock/shoes(I love these, they are sorta big but they work awesome!)
Right: Firetruck overalls!
Left: All Star body suit type outfit. (Has a hood!)

This outfit I found there the day before and didn't have money to get!
I LOVE it! It is going to be his Birthday outfit!
Shirt and pants set!
Again... It has a HOOD! LOL

3 fleece pajamas!
Top: Snowmen on green! Christmas is around the corner, he needed this!
Middle: Monkeys! With Monkey feet with ears! Identical to the other monkey feet.... Also Carter's!
Bottom: Zoo animals! I love the look and feel of this one. It was obviously not as worn as the other two!

His 2 new coats!
The ones he was in before this were getting way too small! I had to get him new ones!
The one on the left is his warmer (larger too) winter coat!
On the right is his over warm pj's to go get Daddy from work sweater/coat!

A closer look at his Winter Coat!
It zips as well as buttons!
Yippee!

His sweater/coat!
Look... It has EARS!!!!
I love ears on baby clothes...
Even on their feet of their pj's! LOL

 After all the town excitement we came home!

I had also gotten the baby one of his many Birthday gifts that day. I picked up a Musical Play Table that he just loves. It was $10... So what the heck, why not!? So while his brothers checked that out with him we got ready to open all of the 7 year old's gifts! Or at least watch him do it!

He sat down right in the middle of the living room and started to dig in! He got a lot of neat things! From a book from his Grandma to a Lego set from his Grandparents in Texas to (his favorite and the one he dug into first)..........................

A KIDS CONSTRUCTION SET!!!!!!!!!!

The "kid wood" was just pieces of foam and all of the tools are plastic but he LOVES this gift! (You can see the musical table in the background there) Mom and Dad RULED this birthday this year! LOL Kids always have a favorite toy, that is just how it is and this time it was Mom and Dad that came through! You can somewhat see what all came in the box in the photo.But, there are/were 150 individual pieces and then he got to cut down all the wood and build whatever he wanted! He has about 15 different things he build and he keeps on cutting and building new things each day! I am so glad he found this gift to be so awesome! This was my last year "I am not shopping on Black Friday" bargain find! LOL 

I do this every year! I say I am not going to go shopping ANYWHERE on Black Friday and then I find myself walking around some store because I needed ONE thing(or in this years case 2)! However, I always find something awesome for my kiddos so it ends up being worth it! This year I ended up needing to renew my oldest WOW account by going to Wal-Mart and buying him a new card and then we had also ran out of wipes for the baby so I needed to go buy new ones of those as well. As it turns out, we hit the END of their sale at Wal-mart! All the crazy people were mostly gone and we, once again, got epic deals! Such as, the 4 year old's birthday gift and a game to go with it! He had put a "kids kindle" on his Christmas Wish list to his Grandparents in Texas this year and I found a V-Reader for $20! And the games for $12 each! These puppies are not cheap normally! So we snagged those. We also found a game for the 7 year old's Christmas gift and then found my littlest guy and my nephew their Christmas/Birthday gifts as well! I now have something to give my nephew that I think my sister will love (not gonna say what because I know she reads this! LOL) and a neat little toy for my guy for in the car! He loves car sounds and has a toy in the car now that when he honks the horn it says "let's go!" and he will sit and hit that button over and over and just smiles the entire time. Well, this new one I already know he loves because he had a blast playing with it in the cart on the way to the check out! I was also able to find little man a Christmas themed "fuzzy" blanket! That is what my kiddos call the little fleece/plush throws that are sold at Wal-Mart. There were a few other things that we got amazing prices on! But the best part is, I picked up everything for UNDER $100! Most of the stuff I bought would have normally cost me 3 to 5 times as much as they did! Such as the V-Reader I picked up. Those are around $60 when not on sale! And I got it for $20!?! Awesome! The 2 things I originally went into the store in the first place for would have only cost me around $52! And I spent $90 plus change!It just amazes me. 

In any case, when I say I am not going shopping next year, remind me I say that every year and I still go shopping! I do however have more sense than others.  do not go out there and do the hair pulling, face punching drama that a lot of other people do. The news reports for Black Friday is always disturbing! Great deals CAN be found without hurting others! Just my opinion! 

I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend! Enjoy the rest of it! I am cutting long school break weekend short a day and we are hitting the Science books tomorrow morning.... 

Baby found the inside of a Paper Bag more exciting than Brother opening gifts! LOL

~TTFN!

Happy Thanksgiving 2012!

I know I have been slacking on my Days of Thankfulness... I have been one busy Mama!

I had my second sons birthday DAY! LOL We had a pretty busy day that day. Plus I had a photo session with the littlest midget in our family that lasted around 2 hours almost! That was fun. The more we did the bigger his smile got! I loved that time with him and I have decided to get myself in on these photos as well with my kiddos! I think that when I do each of my other boys that I will hope in for a photo or two again with each of them since we did a bunch of little man and me together! I also have found a new passion for Pottery Barn Kids! LOL! I blame this on my Mother-in-law! She has been sending the kiddos gifts from there for years and in the gift for the baby (he turns 1 on Monday... Eek!) there was a gift card from Pottery Barn Kids for $10 off your purchase of $11 or more! So, I purchased a Christmas Eve gift for my boys! More on that soon....

This bib was purchased around Christmas 2011

Thanksgiving!

This is little man's LAST 1st Holiday! (This is also his new baby cousin's 1st Holiday ever! Being only 10.5 months apart in age my guy gets to end all his 1st things as hers starts!) Aside from his Birthday of course! His bib was purchased for him when he was about a month old and my Mother picked it up and said that is was super cute! I looked at her and said, quote, "Thanksgiving is over!" in a rather loud voice in the middle of the store and she ever so sweetly replied with... again, quote, "He has to have a 1st Thanksgiving at some point." LOL This got us both laughing. And here we are, Thanksgiving 2012 and Wa-La! he has a Thanksgiving bib! LOL! And it looks pretty good on him! Also, I am super thankful for this bib because he WORE 70% of his food tonight! This was his 1st time joining the family for all that table food as well! Granted, Mama made sure he only had the soft stuff I knew he could handle! But stepping away from today's dinner and rewinding to the start of our day... It has been rather fun and new food filled!

This is what I got to wake up to and see!
So precious! 

We started our day very early! I had to go pick up my Husband from his graveyard shift and had to leave the house at 5 A.M. .... As I went out the door my 2 middle boys woke up and asked where I was going! I told them I was on my way to get their Dad and that they needed to go back to sleep or go tell Grandma they were awake. Since I knew she was getting up to start the baking process for the day I was not worried! I headed into town and had to stop at Wal-Mart to pick up more canned Pumpkin since we were 2 whole cans short! I got in and out relatively fast! Kinda knew where I was headed, with Black Friday starting at 8 P.M. tonight I wanted NO NEED to be in that store other than for necessity. As I was leaving the phone was ringing and one of the employees answered. She replied with the obvious answer for what we all instantly knew the question had been. Her answer: "We are open 24 hours." The question, if not obvious, "When are you open today?" If a store is listed as 24 hours... they are open! And, for those in my same area, our Wal-Mart is ONLY closed on Christmas Day!

Daddy playing with Baby while feeding him PP leftovers!
(This shot was pure luck! The moment went so fast!)

Anyways... I got home with the Hubby and found that my 2 middle boys were still up and going strong! They had on their aprons from their wonderful Aunt and had been helping Grandma the entire time I was gone but had just stopped to play a game of Trouble (Cars edition)! They asked me shortly after I walked in the door if I would make them their very special breakfast I had promised them. (We are going to make this breakfast tradition I think! At least for my Carbavors!) So I set to it! I made, for the first time, Potato Pancakes! (Or PP as I put it to my 7 year old who could do nothing but giggle and say he was eating PP!) The 3 youngest all enjoyed this meal! My oldest, not so much! But that is alright. He is my cold cereal lover. I think he is becoming a box of Cheerios!

((For anyone wondering how I come up with some of this food, I got 99.8% of my recipes from Schwan's website! Go HERE and check them out for yourself. I of course swap out all sugar for splenda and other things I shouldn't have for things I should or CAN!))

Now we were set to start cooking for the big meal! Yippee!!!

Mmmmm.... Yummy Turkey!

It was a crazy day of pretty much nonstop cooking for my Mother and I! I am now even more in love with a way of cooking my delicious turkey that I have adapted into my own over the years! Now, along with stuffing herbs under the skin of the turkey I rub it down with olive oil (Per Kidd Kradick's Brown Bag Turkey recipe! Go HERE for that. I skipped the veggies and just packed that baby full of herbs! LOL) and then I stuff the entire turkey into a brown paper bag! Staple the bag shut and stick that baby in the oven for 3.5-4 hours without having to do a dang thing! Every other year I have had to bast the turkey and worried about it not being moist. This turkey was so juicy it was almost runny! LOL! The juices were everywhere! By far one of my BEST turkey's ever! The other things we made that I hope to repeat year after year and Holiday after Holiday! Are... In photo form...

Cranberry and Citrus Green Beans Recipe

These were not one of my favorites but they were pretty awesome!

   Maple Sweet Potato Cups Recipe

The white and golden puff balls you see there are 

the modified and low carb version of this recipe!

OMG! So yummy! Heaven in your mouth!

Also pictured here are the Deviled Eggs, 

in honor of my Grandma Parker! And

The Olives! Yum!

Stuffed BBQ Chicken Bacon Biscuit Bites Recipe

These are our "twists" on this yummy Schwans recipe! 

The ones in the lighter bread are actually made using Refrigerator Biscuits.

Where the darker ones are simply the chicken mixture topping 

some low carb cheese puppies from the Low carbing among friends book! LOL!

This was AMAZING! A little chicken bacon meat party in my mouth! 

Cheesy Baked California Blend Casserole Recipe

Wow and Yum! 

Two words that sum this up.

Instead of using the Jalapeno that it called for here,

I opted to use diced green chili and instead of California blend

(which has carrots that are a big no no)

We used a simple Broccoli and Cauliflower blend!

This is one of my nights Favorites as well!

Roasted Broccoli with Lemon Butter Recipe

Yum yum yum!

This was really good too! 

Only changes here, lemon and orange extract rather than zest 

due to the lack of purchase of lemon and extra orange! LOL

And Toasted Almond Slivers instead of Pine Nuts!

Homemade Sugar free Halved Cranberry sauce!
I have been making this for awhile now since I tried another
recipe that called for cranberry sauce and I decided that sugar free
and homemade were better than loaded with carbs and sugar in a can any day! LOL

Lunch was munchies..... But baby boy enjoyed that too!

Yippee for Crackers!!!!

Here are just a few more of little man finishing up and enjoying his 1st Thanksgiving meal....

Yes, he sure did have a bath afterwards! He was FILTHY! LOL... Enjoy!

Sweet Potato Cups! YUM!
He had a blast using the spoon himself!
This is, BTW, a large soup spoon!
I have trouble using it! LOL

Sweet Potato Face!

Finger licking good Sweet potatoes! Yummy!

He also enjoyed his 1st go at Hard Boiled Eggs tonight!
Boy did he love them too! Had about 4 of them!

Last but never least... The Family!
Clockwise from top center (or NOON!)
Baby boy!
Daddy!
7 year old!
Grandma (My Mommy)!
4 year old!
and 8 year old!
I love them all and I am THANKFUL for each and every one of them!

Happy Thanksgiving I hope everyone had a wonderful day!

~TTFN!

Sleepy Baby

What is a mom to do?

The baby has been so extra sleepy lately. He has also had some bowel issues lately. We are talking about nearing 8-10 poopalicious diapers per day! And most of them blowing out so much that I have to change and soak his clothes to get the stains out of them so that he has clothes left when he is over this stage!

Anyways... Back to the sleepy and away from the poopiness  He has been getting up with me at 5 AM to go get his Dad from work and it has gotten to the point where he will sleep through the diaper change and getting on his fleece suit to keep him warm when we go out to the car. That alone was odd since he was in the habit of waking me up early on his Daddy's days off and now he just sleeps and sleeps!

He had a rather funny moment in the grocery store the other day though. My Mother and I were shopping and getting our food trip in while we had the time. We were just about done when we were in the cereal aisle and my Mother says "He is asleep." I look over at him and notice his eyes look pretty heavy. He had leaned forward and was starting to doze.

He stayed this way for the remained of our shopping trip. Several people asked if he was okay. One guy stopped with his little baby girl and asked her if she saw the sleeping baby boy and she acted shy! As they walked away he told me to enjoy the silence now because it wouldn't last very long. LOL I love when people tell me stuff like this, they don't know about my other kiddos. And that is fine by me. I am sure I have probably done this to others in my time as a Mommy.

He ended up moving his hands as we were in the check out line and my Mother put her hands under his head so that it wouldn't bounce off the metal parts of the cart. Even with having to slightly move him he STILL did not wake up. I sent the picture to my Sister who says she remembers me doing this as a child. (I of course don't remember it, but I bet I could still do it! Given the chance and a big enough cart! Ha ha!) My sister is 5.5 years older than me so she remembers more of my childhood than I do anyhow. This is however, a first for any of my kiddos. Once they got out of their carrier car seat they were always awake and watching what was going on.

All the way to the car he slept,
then was supper fussy when getting into the car!

I have a feeling that part of this behavior (both the pooped in diapers and the sleeping) is due to teething! He is always chewing on things, mostly his fingers, and is drooling all over constantly! He hasn't been the best of baby's recently either. He has been getting fussy at the drop of a hat and then he also has had some fevers. I hope that he gets over this pretty soon. I feel bad for him when he looks to feel so crumby!

I will try to keep everyone up to date!

~TTFN!

How (CORN) aMAZing! LOL

More photos than words I feel this time around. Enjoy!

It was Corn Maze time with the Kiddos on Sunday October 25th....
I know this is late and I am sorry. I had some issues getting photos and computer to work together and finally I got the photos from my Mother sent to my email and those will be on our Facebook page (here)!

We all had a blast and the entire thing counted as a PE credit in School!
2 hours worth of PE!

The best part, in my opinion, is that they did a Pac-Man theme! My boys love Pac-Man! They knew so much about it, I was amazed just listening to how much My Boys knew about it! The maps were pretty neat as well! Not very helpful, but they were neat! The entire thing was designed just like the game and they had the ghosts in there and everything! We ended up all the way in the back of the maze without even knowing that was what we had done.

Here are a bunch of the photos from our trip to the Maze:

Darth Vader and Yoda! Happy boys!

Entering the maze....
The inside of this "room" was filled with neon colors and black lights!
The boys loved it and wanted to exit that way too!

Begining the journy through the maze...
All were excited!

Enter and start here!

And the journey begins!

The 4 yr old was beside himself!
On our way to the maze he asked if there was horses!
He was super excited to meet 5 huge Clydesdale's!
And he got to feed them!
This Horse kept stealing the bowls and licking them clean, so I had to have a really good grip on the bowl while little man held it up there!

Found the blue ghost!

Grandma and baby way down below!

At the back of the maze! The building way back there is the Barn at the front of the maze!

4 yr old "posing" on a hay bail!

No clue what the 6 yr old is pointing at here!
4 yr old sitting in background!

8 yr old trying to decide if he should jump to the next hay bail or not! LOL

Baby waiting patiently to go home!

"We are so Lost Mom!"
Inside the maze, he believed at one point we would not get out!

My 3 big guys checking out the map!

Still deciding which way is which!

At the top of the slide in the center of the maze!

4 yr old got down!

6 yr old got down and Grandma and Baby are coming to join us!

8 yr old got down too!

The end is near!
We found the end once and they didn't want to leave...
That was 30 minutes in on our 2 hour hike through a maze! LOL

Not impressed!

"Stop taking pictures and lets go!"

Orange Ghosty!

Pink Ghosty!

I hope everyone enjoyed these photos. I also hope we will be able to go again next year and have just as much fun again! I really had a blast walking around and exploring with my kiddos! Glad they had fun. Only downer was ALL THE RAIN! It was pouring at first and then it let up and then started coming down again! But it was ALL worth it to have fun with my Mother and kiddos!

~TTFN!