Wishing Star Farm

I love October.  I love the colors, the pumpkins, sweater weather, and Halloween.  Last weekend we went to Wishing Star Farm.  We went last year and loved it.  This year was even BETTER!  It was crazy busy, but so much fun.  Be prepare for a bunch of pictures.
The boys got to feed the goats and see all the farm animals.

We took a turn going down this big slide that is made out of a hill and hay bales.  The boys rode on a little barrel train all by themselves and were so good about staying seated until it was over.

They loved climbing on the hay mountain and playing in the corn bins.

Shaden and Jayce got a pony ride.  This year Jayce loved the pony ride.  He kept saying "nice pony, good pony" and petting the pony's head.  When his turn was over he shouted "bye-bye Nice Pony."  This was a big change from last year; Jayce would barely sit on the pony.

Wishing Star Farm had a new activity this year, a giant bounce castle, without the castle part.  It was huge and anyone could jump.  Chris and I took the boys on it and had a great time.

It was getting late in the afternoon and everyone was getting hungry so we decided to pick our pumpkins and go to Red Robin.  I found a funny looking pumpkin;  It looks like it grew with a string around the middle.  We haven't carved them yet, but we love having them around the house. 

 

Will Rogers Shrine

We went to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo on Monday.  We decided (Chris humored me) to drive up to the Will Rogers Shine that is part of the zoo property.  What an incredible veiw!  You can see forever.

Garden of the Gods looked tiny.  (Top middle)

We climbed up all the stairs to the top of the tower and the boys had fun shouting "ECHO" down the stairs.

There was this little door at the entrance to the tower and the boys wanted so badly to go through it; it was locked.

After we had fun visiting the animals at the zoo.  We saw the Mountain Lion demonstration; Mountain Lions are scary when they are going after food.  The porcupine was wandering all over his space.  Shaden and I like to try talking to the turkeys and we got them to "gobble, gobble" back to us.  We love living so close to such a great zoo.

Jayce's 2nd Birthday Party

I can't believe my baby is now 2!  Time has gone by so fast.  Jayce has his last well baby doctor's appointment scheduled for later this month.  I will post stats after that.  For Jayce's birthday party on Saturday we went up to my parents house and had a Mickey Mouse party.  Jayce loved the Mickey Mouse balloons and tablecloth.  He kept pointing out the characters and telling me about them.  I decided that I didn't want to make a cake... Mostly I didn't want to screw up the decorating part.  Instead I found these cupcakes on pinterest. (Have you tried pinterest.com yet?  LOVE IT)

So here are the cupcakes I made.

We got the boys Mickey ears to wear and gloves to play with.

Someone said something that made Jayce give them his crusty look.

Then he went to play and was happy again. :)

He didn't really want us to sing to him.  He just wanted to blow out the candles.

He blew them out all by himself.

Close up on the cupcakes.  I added two Werther's Originals under the cupcakes to look like Mickey's feet.

On Sunday, Jayce's actual Birthday, we got to stay home and listen to General Conference.  Before that began Jayce got to open a few more presents.  He got puzzles and Lego Duplos from Grandma and Grandpa.

And an awesome hat from Aunt Margaret and Uncle Nick.  This is his silly smile for that morning.

During Conference the boys played quietly and happily with the new Geo Trax set.

It was a great weekend.

Car Blanket

I finished the car blanket I was making for the boys today!  Yay!  

On one side it has a lake, a river, and a road with 2 brick bridges. 

On the other side it has a road and city print fabric.

To bind it I found some fun fabric with green, gray, white, and black.  It was on clearance for super cheap.  That made me very happy.  I've never made bias tape before so I didn't know how much would be made with a yard of fabric.  Two yards makes a ton of 2 inch wide bias tape.  :)

I think I might make a belt for Shaden or Jayce with some of the left over.

The boys couldn't wait to start playing. 

They are blurry because they wouldn't sit still.

They told me they were driving to Grandpa's house that was right here.

The car crashed into the lake.

Here's a shot of the bias tape.

Shaden's i-spy quilt

It took a while, but I finished Shaden's i-spy quilt.  This was my first quilt and I can't sew a straight line to save my life.  But I love it and I learned a lot.  After attempting free motion quilting and that being a disaster, I straight line quilted it.  I didn't make the bias tape that I used to bind the quilt, but found a perfect match at Joanna's.  The boys and I have had fun finding pictures and shouting out things they see.

 The quilt is sideways on our couch.

Some of the fun i-spy blocks.

This is the back.

Here's the binding.

For my next project I'm working on a car blanket.  It's like a car/train table, only it can be folded up and put out of the way.  This is one side... The boys were too excited to wait for me to finish.