Lots of Pics! Young's Farm

Sunday 10/30 we went to the very last day of the Young's Farm Pumpkin Festival. There are soooo many good pictures. ;-)

We left at 0700 and got there at 0800 for breakfast (I just realized I was typing in military time, I do that cuz of work) and it was soooo good! Fresh pumkin pancakes, herbed potatos, farm fresh eggs and fresh turkey sausage for the boys! I'm so sad we won't get to enjoy their delicious restaurant again (we have gone a total of 3 times in the past 2 years). Zander liked his pancakes but not the pumpkin and he loved the eggs, toast and sausage.

We were done before 0900 and walked right in the festival with no crowds, yay!


Excited! and he actually sat in the stroller!






Tractor driving!


requisite farm animal picture, love them!






Daddy & Zan


Zan & Mama


Zander loves to 'drive' the tractors and loaders.






This tube was so cool!















We took the hay ride tour of the farm and it was really sad to hear the farmer talk about the farm closing. Politicians basically wanted the land and home or business property is taxed more than farms. So a while a go a law passed taking water away from farms. The farm was losing 25% of it's water to the state and can't continue to do business that way. The farm is moving to Oregon. We've only been to the farm three times but we're really going to miss it. And it's a shame that this resource and these jobs are leaving Arizona. We should be buying locally and supporting locally owned businesses but lawmakers make it hard on them. AZ is losing fresh, locally farmed turkeys (that are not treated with any antibiotics or growth hormone) and locally farmed produce. It's really sad.

The farmer stopped at a patch of remaining sweet corn and we got to get off and pick sweet corn of the stalks and eat it right there. It was wonderful!

Zander & the corn


Zander was super excited to see the grasshoper on the ground.


Zander loves popcorn, and he really loves fresh cheese popcorn!


I LOVE THIS PICTURE!


"More popcorn!"


A picture to show just how early we got there.... we were the only car in the restaurant parking lot when we left but the rest of the place was packed! (that's my parents car, haha)

jeessh, that was a lot of pictures! I'm going to miss Young's Farm.

Playgroup Halloween Party pics!

I'm sooooo behind on pictures! Our AP Playgroup had a Halloween Party and it was so fun for the kids! I'm so glad we had the party because I feel that Zander is still too little for trick or treating and we don't need the candy in the house. The party involved a candy search but Zander had no clue what was going on and prefered trying to eat pumpkins, lol. Oh, and he loves doritos so if theres a streak of orange artificial cheese on his face it's from them. ;-)


Eli & Zander looking at the dogs through the back window.


Zander & Eli playing at the play tables upstairs. (Lindsey, our moderator has a great house for kids!)


Elvis on a trike.


Bunny Annabell.


"mmmmmm, pumpkins!"


Cyrus


Zander decorates his pumpkin.


Cyrus, Zander and Ashley (she was Boo from Monsters, Inc. She looks just like her!)


Zander & Cyrus


Tuckered out with his puppy after the party.

There are more kids in the group but I didn't get everyone's pictures. I love our playgroup! Zander loves to play with Cy and Eli, he always asks for them.

2 more pages

These coordinate with the last park page I did. I took so many great pictures that day, I love them all!

4 scrapbooking pages!

Finally got a chance to scrap, it had been over a month!

bubbles, butterflies, chalk, and dirt

We had a lazy Sunday. We slept in until almost 10! Zander ate meal-meal (oatmeal) for breakfast and promptly requested bubbles. So Mr. Dirty Face and I headed outside and Doug and Vinnie joined us. I didn't know Vinnie liked bubbles that much but he really does. We played with bubbles for a long time.

I brought out the camera when Zander noticed a butterfly in the bougainvilleas. We watched it move from little white flower to little white flower drinking nectar for a long time. Zander stuck out his finger and said "come here butterfly!" so we tried to get it to come to us. When it flew away he said "Bye bye butterfly, see you later!"

Then we played with sidewalk chalk. Zander spells his name "Z-A-N-D! Zander!" or he'll say "Z-A-N-E-R! Zander!" so fun! The butterfly did come back for a second visit so we watched it again.

It's so fun to just play.

You can barely see the orange butterfly in the middle-top of the picture. It's the thought that counts. :-)




Dirty face and jammies!

3 pictures

Zander watching TV with Hex cuddled up to him:




The playroom, cleaned!

My handsome 2 year old!

Portraits from Kiddie Kandids. These are just the pictures - the final products with enhancments, borders, montages, b&w, and phrases came out AMAZING but I'm too lazy to scan :-) I love KK pics!






He looks so big now!

Call me crazy

call me crazy, but...

I took Zander to edgefest with me tonight. I had no one to go with and instead of dealing with getting someone to watch him and going by myself I just took him.

We watched:
30 Seconds To Mars
Rise Against
and
Incubus

Incubus played Nebula and covered Let's Go Crazy, so that made my night. I don't think I've seen them play anything off of S.C.I.E.N.C.E. since Sno-Core.

He was mostly very good and we had fun. Thankfully, it's at a park so there was slides (it's actually the splash park but it's all turned off) and lots of grass for him to run in. And I wasn't the only crazy with a child, he played with some other kids at the park.

So yeah, call me crazy. :-)

When we got there 30STM was just starting and I was holding him and he was chewing on one of his cars. When the music started he was in awe. They had a big screen next to the stage so we could see that very well. He got so excited when he'd see the drums on the big screen then he'd point to the stage and say "drums!" After a song was over he'd set his car down on me and clap, he loved to clap.

Later, when we were playing in the park when Incubus was on he'd be running around and then he'd just stop and find something to beat on. He loves to "play drums" with music.

He also did a lot of dancing.

So I think he had a good time. Taking a 2 year old to a concert was a bit of a challenge, I was really tired, but I think it was a cool experience for him. I took along a backpack with cars, bubbles, a handy-dandy notebook and crayon, and diapers and all that good stuff. He did end up having a dirty diaper during Incubus and I just found a quiet place under a tree and changed him, no one was around.

Today when we were talking about it he said "I watch a-music, play drums. Watch a-music on TV!" meaning the big screen.

Pictures!!!

10 Month Pics from Sears (we did these last Tuesday)

and from the last time I uploaded any pics from my camera, 7/4. (Oi, I have a crapload of vacation pics to take care of still!)

Zander loves books and he really loves to give them kisses!