MOTHER OF THE YEAR AWARD!!!!!

OK, so I know single moms out there do these kind of things all the time but I am used to having the best husband ever basically do all the hard things with the kids when we go on an outing, and I just tag along for the ride and feed everyone. So, yesterday Ross woke up totally not feeling good. The rest of us have all already had "the crud", and his turn struck yesterday. So, I wasnt about to stay home since we have all been sick the last 3 weekends. I bundled up the kids in the rain and we went, once again, to the pumpkin patch. The girls both go with school but Levi and I also needed our pumpkins. I dont usually ever have trouble with the girls. Maybe since they are older? They seem to be great every time we do anything, and they were. Levi, on the other hand, is a bit of a challenge. At this farm, a trolly takes you out to the patch to pick your pumpkin. Needless to say, in the one picture you can see how far out in the boonies this was. We had already been at the farm doing all the activities for over an hour and it was getting very close to nap time. Not wanting to deprive my kids from getting the biggest pumpkin of all, I let them pick whatever they wanted. Did I mention that I had to carry this pumpkin all the way back to the road for the trolly to pick us back up? Well, I did. Levi cried from the time we got off the trolly to the time we got back on. I left him in the middle of the patch laying on his back in the mud while I carried the pumpkins to the road. Over all, we had the best time...... just another piece of our lifes memory book. When we got home, got cleaned up, and Levi took a much needed nap; we carved our pumpkins. Here is the finished product.