Monday, October 22, 2007

Sunday's Family Outing

Sunday after church we had a huge Family Outing. Here is all who came with our family:

Karen, Miss Mary & Mr Howard (Karen's parents)
Michael, Tammy, Caleb & Audrey
MawMaw & Papa
MawMaw & PawPaw Russell (Tammy's parents)
David & Shirley (Michael's parents)
Sandy & Samantha
It was such a beautiful day I think it got to 87 degrees!!! Yikes, weird fall family outing weather.....but I'll take it.


We went to ride a minature steam train through the woods and next to the Meramac River. It was so beautiful and relaxing. The kids were just beside themselves as they all LOVE trains!
After the train we went to a farm for pumpkin picking. We took some pictures in the patch, but we didn't want pumpkins that were THAT big. So we picked a few gourds and bought really small pumpkins by the registers :)
It was such a perfect, wonderful day. Once again we are so grateful for all the wonderful family we have. It was so fun getting to do this all together! Can't wait to do it again next year :)




Our engineer girls, Emily, Hannah and Samantha


The older four trying to wait patiently for the train. Are they not the cutest?


Here is our whole group waiting at the station


Sandy and Monica. This picture is a our token picture. Most of the time we are the ones taking the pictures, so we had to get one with both of us actually in one!

Joseph snuggling Auntie Karen. My kids were just so exhausted as we haven't slowed down since Wednesday afternoon!


I wasn't kidding when I said it was a small train :) But we all fit on the same ride. I was SO grateful. It sounds like a little thing but it was really awesome.

I just want to squish them all. They were all SO good. I was so proud of them!


Engineer Emily





Engineer Hannah

Our family in front of the train crossing

Karen, Sandy and Monica.....wow, we got in several pictures today! I really don't like this one of me...but the other girls look so good I had to put it on. I hope you guys appreciate my emotional sacrifice!

MawMaw and Papa with the grandkids....well, except for Miss Julianna and her new baby (annoucement: Michelle is pregnant again!).

Here we are in the pumpkin patch. Our rule is you can have it if you can carry it :)

I thought this sign was hilarious. I thought immediately of Emily!

Joseph trying with all his might to pick this one up!

Horray! We found some gourds we could carry! What a stupendous day.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Of course, all the kids are cute...and the adults are hot too, but my favorite pictures are the ones of Hannah and Emily on the fence! Those are so good!

Troy & Sherry said...

what a fun day :) we can't wait to come and see you guys - it is only about 3 1/2 weeks away :) yahoo....
love you friend

Leah (Parrish) Millan said...

What a blessing to have family so close so that you can enjoy those things together! I really want to get to a pumpkin patch here pretty soon... great rule by the way-- maybe next year Joseph can snag that big one :)

Jen said...

Sounds like a blast! I love fall activities - the problem is I want to do them every weekend which makes us get a bizillion pumpkins :)!

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