Dewberry Farms

We took our annual trip to Dewberry Farms with our MOPS group, and we had a blast! I love outdoor field trips - my kids do best in an open environment where they can run, get dirty and be loud :-) They enjoyed seeing animals, picking pumpkins, climbing in the hay and playing with friends, I can't wait to go back next year!

Exploring and playing on the farm

Jessica joined us with Kate and Sterling, Luke had a great time playing with Sterling!

Casey and Aaron were able to enjoy the trip too! I think Casey and I were more excited than the babies though :-)

On the hayride to pick pumpkins, except there was no hay this year....too many allergies

Large inflatable areas where the kids can jump (not the mommies - which I found out when they nicely yelled at me that the inflatable were not designed for adults!)

My little monkey swinging from the rope at the haystack

What a great day!!

Just for fun, this is Luke and me when we came 2 years ago to our first Dewberry Farms visit...time goes by too fast!

Calgary

Last week, Vic had a work trip in Calgary for a conference he was attending, and I was able to tag along and leave the kids behind with their grandparents, yea! It was wonderful, the weather was beautiful and we just enjoyed having adult conversations, eating meals without anyone screaming or throwing food on the floor, and no diapers to change! I spent some time at the conference with Vic, well pretty much just to hear his presentation, which went really well. Other than that, we went to the Calgary zoo and spent an afternoon being driven into the foothills and having a nice dinner out with a coworker that lives in Calgary. We missed Luke and Abby, but it was amazing how a few days away made the kids seem so loud when we got back! We really do appreciate our parents being willing to watch the kids, it was such a nice break for us and hopefully our parents won't remember how worn out they were at the end of the week so they might be willing to do it again someday :-)

Downtown Calgary

In the foothills

At the Calgary Zoo, the changing colors of leaves were so pretty!

They had the Dinosaur Alive exhibit like we have right now in Houston, I took a few dinosaur pictures to show Luke :-)