Bourdet's Christmas tree farm

Saturday we joined some friends at a local Christmas tree farm in Hollister. They had several activities  for the kids to enjoy. Nathan was excited to spend time with his friends from Nursery. Triplet girls just his age and he enjoyed every minute. There was a petting zoo, playground, tractor ride, and even Santa. Nathan talked about seeing Santa the whole drive to the farm but of course as soon as we saw him Nathan would have nothing to do with him.

Halloween

Our first Halloween activity was to paint a pumpkin. Nathan had received a small pumpkin during our trip to the pumpkin farm and since it was too small to carve I thought he would enjoy painting it. I let him pick out a couple colors and then let him paint away.

Shortly after painting Nathan just wanted to curl up on the couch with me and soon he had fallen asleep. when he woke up he was still acting lethargic and I discovered that he was running a fever. I gave him some medicine and he spent the rest of the afternoon resting with his blanket.
We decided to call off taking him to any houses for trick or treating and ended up just taking him to the church for trunk or treat. He was feeling better by then but still pretty worn out. He loved collecting candy from each of the cars but after about an hour he asked to go home.

 This year the boys dressed up as super heroes. Brady was Batman.

 Nathan was Clark Kent. Kerri did this costume a couple years ago with Aidan and I loved it. And since Nathan didn't care about who he dressed as I decided this was perfect.

                                                                At Trunk or Treat

                                             Ready to collect his candy!

Pumpkin Carving

We finally took the time on Saturday to carve our pumpkin. Unfortunately the one we had pick out from the pumpkin farm started showing signs of rot just a couple days after we brought it home. And Since neither Dave or I want to clean out the rotten insides we ended up making another quick trip to the pumpkin farm to pick out a new one. Nathan had fun telling me what kind of face he wanted on the pumpkin. Two triangle eyes, a triangle nose, and a smiling mouth.

Birthday weekend

A few weeks ago we headed up to the family cabin to spend sometime relaxing for Dave's birthday. We arrived late Thursday night with the expectation of being able to sleep in. But the curtains in the room Nathan stayed in didn't block out the early morning light so he was up bright and early. When I told him he should just go back to sleep he informed me that it was light out so it was time to be awake. We spent Friday just relaxing and hanging out at the cabin. We enjoyed lunch at a local pizza joint and Dave enjoyed taking a nap. Dave's parents showed up Friday night to spend the rest of the weekend with us. Saturday morning we headed to Jamestown to ride the train. Then for lunch we went to Cover's Apple Ranch for some lunch. It is a farm run by a Mennonite family. Spent the rest of the evening just relaxing and the headed home Sunday after lunch. It was so nice to be able to get away without any worries for just a few days.

                                     digging in the dirt and collecting pine cones.

                                At Railtown 1897 State Historic Park in Jamestown

         Ready to go for a ride! We were pulled by engine #3. Which is the steam engine that was used in the film Back to the Future III