National Cattle Congress

We loaded up the trailer again this weekend and headed to Waterloo for the National Cattle Congress.

Peighton showed a feeder calf for Pemberton Show Cattle.

She took second in class and made it into the final drive.

Anastasia and Cinderella made the trip as well.

Cinderella took Reserve Champion Foundation Simmental and 4th Overall Breeding Beef.

Anastasia was SUPER ornery and danced around for most of the final drive!

But Peighton hung in there and she took Champion Hereford and 5th overall.

It was a great way to spend a Sunday!

One more season of Fall Soccer in the books

Preston played soccer again this fall and had a great time.

 

 

 

Stretching is necessary for all good soccer players.

 

 

 

Lots of speed here...but where's the ball?

 

The best part about soccer is the trip to Yotty's afterwards!

 

This one never passes up Yotty's either!

It wouldn't be fall without a trip to the Pumpkin Patch!

 

We hit the pumpkin patch on a no school day and had lots of fun!

 

 

 

 

This is the "Hey! Act like you like each other!" picture.

 

Preston could live in a pool of corn.

 

Our favorite addition this year was the giant hamster wheel.

 

 

It's great if you are a coordinated person, like Peighton, who can adjust the speed of her feet to how fast the wheel is spinning.

 

Now if you are like Preston...the wheel picks up speed but your feet do not...and then you do a face plant into the front of the wheel.

It ended badly for this little hamster...more than once.

 

He came out of the hamster experience ok and decided he could keep playing.

 

Dustin couldn't make his scooter go fast enough and the kids caught up to him and made a train.

 

Of course they love the jumpy pillow.

 

And they love to stick their heads through wooden cutouts.

 

It was a beautiful day and we had lots of fun!

Leaves, Pumpkins, and trick or treating

Peighton BEGS Grandma Sue to rake up her leaves every fall so they can jump in them.

Grandma Sue is the only one with big enough trees with plenty of leaves to rake up!

 

 

We found an afternoon that was fairly nice and got together for fun in the leaves!

 

This was about the only place that all four of them stood still for more than 2 seconds!

 

There was lots of running....

 

and giggling.

 

We took a break from the leaves for a snack and carving Grandma's pumpkins.

The girls took one.

 

And the boys did the other.

Then we headed back out for one more round in the leaves.

 

This would have been a great picture...if Hayden weren't eating a stick. ;-)

 

They all had fun and I think only one of them got their head sat on in the leaves.

 On Friday, they got to dress up in their costumes for school.

Preston was super excited to finally have a "real" Halloween party!

I was excited that I got to go to both of their parties for lots of Halloween fun!

 

No idea what Spiderman is doing here....I'm guessing he was cold.

 

We had to move inside for more pictures.

 

Spidey loved his muscles.

 

He shot me a few times with his web.

 

Not sure what this pose was but it's pretty funny.

 

Queen Elsa played the part quite well.

 

After some Jack-o-lantern pizza we headed to town for trick or treating!

 

We found Olaf at Grandma Pat's house!

After a quick picture with Grandma Pat and Grandpa Marvin we were off for some very cold trick or treating!

 

Trick or treating with these four is like herding cats.

It was quite fun and we all laughed a lot....there was fighting over whose turn it was to ring the doorbell...there was crying over not being able to eat EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF CANDY...but mostly there was lots and lots of laughing.

Can't wait until we do it all again next year!

We grew a Jack-o-lantern!

WE LOVE FALL!!!!

It was so fun to use our own pumpkins for all our fall stuff this year.

(And much cheaper too!)

 

 

The potato head pumpkins are a must-do.

 

They each chose one of our big pumpkins to carve.

 

Not sure why they both did the same thing for a picture!

 

Peighton made sure hers was missing a few teeth!

We will definitely be planting our own pumpkins again next year!