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Carving Pumpkins

Papa and GG are here to help us carve our pumpkins!

GG let us spray paint our pumpkins different colors.

Pumpkin Patch Field Trip

Emery's class went to the Pumpkin Patch for their field trip.  Emery found the perfect pumpkin!

He could carry it to the wagon.

Glad to have Mom along for the trip!

The class got to feed the goats, but Emery wanted nothing to do with that!

Mrs. Paula's PM class

Cousins

 

We are so excited that our cousins now live only minutes (instead of hours) away from us!  Move in day!

Kate Shelly Field Trip

The second grade field trip to Boone to ride the train and to learn more about Kate Shelly.  This is Parker's class before the train ride.

Parker loves having his mom along for the trip!

Wyatt is our buddy for the day and this is the train conductor.

Lots of extra fun time on the train since it ran out of gas almost the the whole way out on the trip!

 

Lunch on the train!

Parker on the path to the overlook of where the bridge that Kate Shelly crossed during the thunderstorm!

We couldn't have had a better group of boys.  (Gavin, Graham, Parker, and Wyatt)

Another class photo at the end of the field trip.  The weather held out for us to have a great day!

Reiman Gardens, Hickory Park, and Boone Scenic Valley Railroad

 

This morning, we headed to Reiman Gardens to meet up with Grandma and Great Grandma to celebrate our fall birthdays.

Reiman Gardens has started a major renovation project.  Can't wait to see what happens at the hillside garden.  The plans look amazing!

Throwing a few rocks into the pond looking for frogs.

Great Grandma really enjoyed all of the roses!

Mom and Great Grandma

Emery and Cy...we cannot pass Cy without getting a picture taken.

  

It wouldn't be a birthday celebration without heading to Hickory Park!

After lunch, we headed to Boone to ride the train!

The fall leaves were just starting to change and gave us some very beautiful sights.

Looking out over the river.

 

We also spent some time entertaining Great Grandma and teaching her about Pokemon!

Walker Johnson Park

Look, Mom, no hands!

This tower is a long ways up!

Oh no! Parker is stuck in this spider web!

Leah Playdate

Leah came to Des Moines with her Mom on a business trip to have a play date with Aunt Erin.  You can never be too safe eating lunch at my house!

 

These two had a great time playing before Emery had to head to school.

After we dropped Emery off at school, we headed to Parker's school to join him for recess.

 

Leah had a great time playing with him as well!

After recess, we decided that we should head to another park and play around.

 

We had an awesome afternoon together!  I glad she wanted to come spend some time with me.

Pokemon Hunting

Running around the high wall.  Heights do not scare us....

We headed to the Papa John Sculpture Park this morning to hunt for Pokemon!

Look at all of these letters!