Happy Fall

We had a fun, fun weekend. It was busy and exhausting, which is why I'm just now getting around to telling you about it. The kids are downstairs - playing with Playdoh unsupervised, so I may regret this, but here goes. Friday night, soccer practice was rained out, so we didn't do anything special. Just dinner at RuSan's for sushi. The only thing to report about that is that Evan has ventured into the world of sushi. I'm very proud of him for being so adventurous. No, we did not let him eat raw fish. He had a shrimp tempura roll. Nevertheless, I doubt there are many 4 year olds out there that can say they had sushi for dinner on Friday night. I digress...

Saturday morning brought a 9 a.m. soccer game followed by a fun day at Washington Farm in Watkinsville, GA. Our friend Jeremy has planned our pumpkin outings the last 2 years in a row. Last year we went to Southern Belle Farm in McDonough. This was very similar, but the lines were not as long to do stuff and so we were able to pack more into the day. There was a petting zoo, a giant slide made out of some kind of rolling pvc-type pipes, a mini-hay-bale-maze, a giant corn maze, tricycle racing, hay rides, pumpkin sling shot, corn cob hydraulic shooting, pig races, and a cute little cow-train ride for the kids. We did it all. The kids had a ball. We were lost in the corn maze for at least an hour. Evan kept getting all up into the corn, which was against the rules. I kept fussing at him to get out of there, but after a while I decided that the behavior might get us thrown out, which might not be such a bad thing.... We went to dinner in Monroe, GA at the Applebee's on the way home and the kids both passed out in the car for the trip home. It was a good day.

Sunday, Briarlake had community service day. It all started with an outdoor service on the ballfield followed by lunch and dispatch into the community for various projects. Corin and I signed up to go to a local elementary school with our Sunday school class. When we arrived, we were assigned to a team that was to paint a stripe down the middle of the wall in each hallway in the school. Each hallway stripe is a different color, so Corin's guess is that the purpose of the stripe is to tell the kids to line up in the red hallway and then go to the purple hallway, etc. That guess is as good as any. The principal was there and was very pleased with our presence. Apparently, last year some Briarlake folks had painted the overhangs on the front of the school. He said he had been asking the school board to have it done for 5-6 years -- to no avail -- so he was thrilled to have our group volunteer to get it done. It was satisfying to get out and work in the community, but I was pooped when we got home. The kids stayed at church the whole time we were painting, and I was very worried that they would be irritated to have been left there for so long, but they had a great time and had to be pried out of the building to go home.

There are photos of soccer and Washington Farm linked under Albums.