Our Annual Weber's Trip!

On the cool date of 10.10.10, we decided it would be a good day to make our annual trip out to Parkville to Weber's Cider Mill Farm. It proved a wise decision, as the weather was absolutely beautiful and the kids had a wonderful time frolicking around to the different activity areas with their cousins. Of course, Amaya still can't frolick, since she's not walking yet, but she loved looking around, being carried from place to place and playing in the straw for awhile while everyone else played on the toy tractors. Weber's offers so many activities for the kids and we love making the trip out there every year! We were going to get our pumpkins from there, since I love to carve them and bake the yummy pumkin seeds once Halloween is over, but we decided, we'll get them from somewhere else, since we would have had to lug them back to our car! I think my personal favorite part was defintely the cider slush and cider donuts though--Yummm!We got some great fall pics of the kids in Weber's pumpkin patch and in their play area, so enjoy! Can you believe how big this little man is getting?

All of the cousins at Weber's! Lola with the only girls! The oldest boy with the youngest boy--awww--Dylan and Alex!

The four boys together in the maze--Dylan, Alex, Daniel, and Matthew waving!

Me and Miss Maya going down the slide!

Arceo family on the hayride!

Alex, Matthew and Julia with a big wooden pumpkin

Nana and Pap's, Higson's Farm, and 11 Months!

This blog post is a combo pack. That's right, here we have 3 events all rolled into one! Let me start with our weekend visit to my parents house in Western, MD--Barton, MD to be exact. All the way at the southwestern corner of Allegany County. We went out Saturday morning and stayed until Sunday afternoon to let the kids spend some time with Nana and Pap. Alex loves visiting my parents, probably because there's pretty much no rules and Alex has a definite country streak in him. Let's see, he loves cars, sports, animals and dirt, so yes..he is a country boy! As soon as we pulled up, Alex saw my Dad working on his truck, and he stopped and watched him completely mesmerized for at least 10 minutes, with my Dad trying to teach him about brake pads or some non sense. The crazy thing is, Alex was actually listening to him. In fact, I was pretty confident that Alex could possibly crawl under my car and fix my brakes after Dad's "mechanic lesson" LOL. Other than that Alex almost passed out from excitement when my Mom pulled out my brothers' old nascar matchbox cars (of which there are approximaely 10,000). I think he played with these every second we actually spent in the house. On our way back to Baltimore, we all donned Ravens gear and traveled about 20 minutes from my parent's house to Higson's Farm in Wiley Ford, Wva. They were having their annual Fall Fest and it was really awesome. They had bouncy houses, petting farm, pony and hay rides, food, and of course pumpkins! Both kids loved the pumpkin patch, with Alex trying to roll them all around and Amaya licking them and hugging them! Then we headed back to the River (Middle River--don't knock the nickname) and listened to the Ravens beat the Steelers on our radio--Yeah! Great fall weekend--my favorite time of year!
So in other news, Amaya will be 11 Months old on Thursday! I can't believe our baby girl will be 1 so soon. This time last year, I was just going on bed rest and every moment, every little pain I felt scared me to death. No one will ever know how scary that time of not knowing was for Abe and I, and we are just so thankful that she waited until almost 37 weeks to make her appearance and that we have our healthy, beautiful little girl here about to turn 1! I think I am most looking forward to seeing her take those first little steps soon, watching her hair grow, and watching her be able to interact more with her big brother.Parenthood is such a crazy rollercoaster ride sometimes, but it's just so worth it in the end and both of my kids, but especially our little Amaya is living proof of that! :) One handed method! Alex so excited over "Uncle Bandon's" old cars!

Amaya and Nana at Higson's Farm! Alex and I in the goat pin..petting his rear! LOL

Amaya in the pumkin patch! Strong boy trying to pick up two huge pumpkins!

Family Pic at Higson's--not too bad considering!