Apple Orchard

Yesterday, we spent the day at Anderson Orchard in Mooresville. I so love that place! The scenery is absolutely breathtaking during this time of year... The weather was perfect and I had the best time with the best girls!



















This is the same orchard we visited last year and had such a wonderful time. Click here to see last years pictures!

Pumpkin Patch

Yesterday, we spent a beautiful day at Russell Farms in Noblesville. There was so much more than pumpkins at this wonderful place! One of the many activities was a kid friendly corn maze that had hidden "treasures" (different seeds in wooden boxes) to collect and turn in for a prize. We all had fun searching and searching! Other activities included peddle tractors, putt-putt, farm animal encounters, music, hayrides and lots and lots of fun things for the kids to climb on or play in. Of course, we visited the pumpkin patch, too, where Ellie and Josie both picked out their pumpkins all on their own. Ellie picked a nice orange one just her size and Josie went right for two unique white ones- one big and the other a cute little one that she could carry all on her own. They had so much fun!

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Fire Truck

Our neighborhood held it's annual cookout to raise money for our local fire department today. Ellie was happy to find her friends Katie and Maddie there!

Sweet Sisters

I am way behind on pictures, but we have been stuck home this week with both girls sick so I've finally gotten some time to start sorting through the last month's worth. I was happy to find that I have several of them actually playing and being sweet with each other!

New Preschool

Well, Ellie's intuition was right about her not liking her preschool so we searched for an alternative and found this great Science and Art program that is held in a church right across the street from us! Ellie LOVES these new classes and now is very excited to be going! They are 2 1/2 hours every Monday and Wednesday which has opened up our schedule to relax a little more during the week. Our days are now like this: Monday-Science class, Tuesday-ballet, Wednesday-Art class, Thursday-gymnastics, Friday-free day.

Ellie's new class:


Ellie needed a backpack for this school (her old one provided buckets to use for papers) but she didn't like the ones we looked at at the store. So we just bought a plain blue one on clearance and I told her we would decorate it ourselves. When I asked her what she wanted, she drew a picture for me of an elephant and said "this!".


I looked on-line for an elephant patch and learned, instead, how to make one ourselves. I let Ellie pick out the fabric and she told me exactly how she wanted it to look. Here is the finished product:

We are both very happy with it!

Misc. Cuteness

First Boat Ride

The girls got to experience their first boat ride last weekend! They loved it and can't wait to go again!