SPOOOO-TEEEEE!!!!

Sweet Hayden crouched down and ready to spook Daddy and Sawyer!

AKA, Spooky!!! You also have to imagine it said in a scary "got-cha" kind of way to understand the fun with had with that one little word this past weekend at the corn maze! Who knew a corn maze could even be fun with a 1 and 2 year old? Certainly not me. I was wrong. It was great fun... one more thing for us to do during fall time!:) As if we didn't have enough huh?!? Hayden started out leading us through the maze, but after we ended up where we had begun after only 4 or 5 turns we decided to let Daddy do a little of the navigating! Don't worry, Hayden still thought he was figuring it out on his own!!! Little Sawyer enjoyed being pushed through the maze in his luxury ride! Next year he'll be out there with Hayden leading the way!

We started here...

It's this way Momma... come on!

RUN!!!!!!

But keep your eyes peeled for people hiding in the corn ready to spook you...

Like Daddy!

And Hayden!

I guess his fists were supposed to "spoot" you, because
that sweet face sure couldn't get the job done!:)

Hayden and I started hiding pretty early on in the maze(we had to do something to keep it interesting!). We would get in a little corner and wait for Daddy and Sawyer to come around and then jump out and yell "Spooky" and try to startle Daddy and Sawyer. I had no idea it would turn into such a fun game, but it most certainly did. We were spooking each other the whole time and the boys could not stop laughing about it. SO fun!

At one stopping point we got a family pic... yes all those corn stalks
in the background are ones we maneuvered our way through!:)

And, believe it or not, we actually took some time to stop and look at the corn that was actually still on the stalk...

Pretty cool huh?!?

Even cooler than the corn itself was when Sawyer got to play with it!:)

Can you tell he enjoyed his exploration of the corn?!?

Whoa!

I actually had a hard time getting it from him when it was time to move on.
I think he wanted to bring it home with us! He does love eating his
corn(still grinded up like baby food of course!), so maybe
that is what he was thinking about!!!

We couldn't stay playing with the corn for too long, we had 6 check points we had to make it to before we could find our way out of the maze! There was a little game they had set up where you would punch your postcard with different punches at 6 different check points throughout the maze, and of course we had to accomplish this!

Hayden got a little tired out during our hunt for the 6 check points and tried to
sit in his seat of the stroller... I guess he had forgotten it was missing!

We left it in the car thinking he would want to walk the whole time! Note to self... just bring the seat. EVERY.single.time! All toddlers get tired... not matter what!:)

We did finally make it to check point 6! Yay us!:)

There was a cool little lookout at this final check point and of course we went up to take a look at the maze from the top...

Hayden enjoyed showing Daddy what we had just done!

And Sawyer and I just enjoyed the breeze!:)

We eventually made it here! Are we good or what?!?
Thank goodness for Daddy's good navigation!

This is exactly what he looked like when we told him
we had made it to the exit... HUH?!?
We did it?!? So cute!

Daddy and Hayden checking out our accomplishment one last time... we went FAR!!!

Thanks to the North Georgia Corn Maze for making our first corn maze experience a good one. Not too crowded, not too hard, rewarding, but most of all FUN! We can't wait to try out another one next year!

Whoa, That's A BIG Punttiiinnnn...

Burt's Pumpkin Patch 2011!

We made our annual trip to Burt's last week and it was so much fun! The boys really love this place, and so do we! This year the first thing we heard when we got there was..."WHOA!"(that was from Saw) and "that's a big punttiinn"(Hayden of course!). It was like when we first walked out of the car they immediately noticed the huge pumpkins. It was so cute! As always we had a blast walking around looking at all the different pumpkins and choosing which ones we were going to take home with us. And of course I loved taking their pics with the pumpkins...

Hayden was having a great time!

And although you aren't technically supposed to sit on the
pumpkins, I couldn't resist getting this pic of Sawyer!

Which led to Hayden on top of the pumpkin of course!

Talk about a big pumpkin... was this one not gorgeous? Usually I don't even like the huge pumpkins, but this one was just so pretty to me. It looked like it was straight out of Cinderella or something. If only we had wanted to spend $80 on a pumpkin I would have totally gotten it! At least we have a picture right?!? The perfect giant pumpkin!

These pics really show how big they were! No
wonder they both kept saying "Whoa!!!"

This was the boys favorite activity... running up and down the pumpkin isles!

Of course, Sawyer wasn't taking part in the running part, but he sure had fun standing up(with the pumpkins help) and cheering his big brother on! These boys of mine crack me up. At least they were having fun right?!?

At one point they decided to have a seat and play with the
dirt/leaves/mulch they found on the ground. It
proved to be as much fun as the pumpkins!:)

But it didn't take long before they were breaking the
rules again by trying to climb the pumpkins...

And carry the pumpkins by what I like to call their "hair"!
I don't know when I started to call the pumpkins
stems their hair, but it stuck and now
I can't stop! Even Daddy
calls it their hair!

Don't worry, I didn't let them carry on too much with either of these activities. I didn't want us to get in trouble!:) They did love these activities though!!!

Well, all but the getting his hands dirty part!:)

Hayden was very proud when he found this pumpkin
he could carry properly all by himself!

Would you believe this is the family picture we got with the pumpkins?!?
So sad huh?!? Obviously they did not want to take a family pic!

But at least I got one with my sweet Sawyer!

Who also had tons of fun walking with Daddy!

We did take a pumpkin break while we were at Burt's to take a hayride and play on some hay bales which was tons of fun. The boys love hayrides, so we always try to fit that in if we can. Luckily for us, we usually get to go to Burt's on a weekday which isn't usually as busy as the weekend. So, off to the Wednesday afternoon hayride we went...

Another stellar family pic! We are getting pretty good at these huh?!?

I said before the boys loved hayrides, but apparently
this one scared Sawyer a little bit at first!

Hayden, on the other hand, was ready to go... and
also ready to throw hay on us! Yikes!

It didn't take long before Sawyer warmed up to
the ride and started enjoying himself!

As a matter of fact, they both wanted to ride it again when it was over! Of course! "Again, again!" We hear that a lot around here! We didn't ride it again, but we did go over and let them jump around on some hay bales they have set up for you to take pictures on!

The boys loved it!

Hayden would jump from the higher ones to the lower ones and then roll over and over and Sawyer would clap and cheer him on. I don't know if you can see it here good enough, but there is a little dip where two hay bales come together right in front of where Sawyer is scooting towards. He would scoot and fall in between those bales and Hayden would help him up. Over and over. It was hilarious. They were covered in hay, but they sure had fun playing! I'm pretty certain that is not what Burt's intended for you to do on those hay bales, but we couldn't take away their fun! I straightened it up when we left for the next family to take pics! Now, for our favorite part of the day....

We saw an old spider web with a dead spider in it!

We went to a pumpkin patch, rode a hayride, played on hay bales, rode in a wheelbarrow, ran up and down isles, and this old spider web topped it all. This is the memory I will keep forever. Don't get me wrong, I love the tradition of going to the same pumpkin patch(especially since it's Burt's!) and picking out our pumpkins for the season, but spotting this old spider web this year will be the part I remember. We always head over to the creek after we have finished picking out our pumpkins to throw rocks into the water, and this year was no exception.

It's where we took our final terrible family pic for the day!
Crazy right?!? Not one good pic the entire
day? Oh well, maybe next year!

It's where Hayden sat in this window frame that he always must sit in!

And it's where we spotted the spider web!

Can you tell how cool he thought it was?!?

I'm pretty sure I saw this web when going to get Sawyer from scooting across this very dirty bridge and decided to spot it out to Hayden. Apparently I was the coolest Mom ever for doing this. We had more fun pretending to be scared to touch this old dirty spider web than you could ever imagine. Of course we didn't end up touching it, and I'm secretly scared of the day these boys insist on doing that!:) But for now, it was tons of fun!

Even for Mommy!

Thanks for the old spider web Burt's! We sure had fun with it! Hayden just reminded me about it yesterday!:)

Look at all those pumpkins!

See you next year Burt's! You better get to work on growing us some more big, beautiful pumpkins!:) We can't wait for next year!