Day 2

Today first thing we headed to a park to meet up with Emily (my sister in law's sister who I am good friends with.) She was in town visiting her parents in Franklin. Our kids were all born so close together we've always been pregnancy buddies together, and usually going through all the same things with the kids at the same time. It was so great to see her for a little bit and for the kids to play together. When we only had one kid we talked several times a day to each other. Now we are lucky if it's once a month!

Boston and Ellie born on the same day
Dallas and Evan - 2 months apart

Asher and Everett - 2 weeks apart
One of the cutiest pics of Asher!

Then we headed to go mining. All the kids were excited about finding a treasure, as well as the adults for that matter. But the excitement was short lived and then the kids (or boys I might say) wanted to play in the muddy water and put leaves and sticks and watch them slide down. But they of course loved all the gems they found. And as Bonnie would say, "and they were free!" Ha Ha...of course daddy had to pay $30 for the big bucket of dirt...but yes Bonnie...you did "find" the gems in the dirt.

Dallas only mined for a minute and then decided that leaf boats were more fun

My sweet Asher in the red clay at the mine

After naps we carved pumpkins with the kids. Well really, the dads ended up carving them after the kids drew their faces on the pumpkins, and the kids went leaf sledding again!

Dallas laughing at his pumpkin drawing

Today is my mom's birthday - happy birthday mom!!! We got her a cake and celebrated. The kids even got to have cake BEFORE dinner...oh what a treat.

The superheros and tinker bell all ready for bed! (and the dog ready to eat someones food!)

Tonight we decided to put the kids down to bed and then make our dinner and have a nice relaxing dinner together. It was wonderful. Yummy steaks and more. I so love getting to spend time with Jess and Bart, if only they were in the same town!