A busy weekend...

This past weekend was, apparently, the weekend to plan all events important. We had so many invitations to so many major happenings that we had to turn some down. Here's a brief overview of those which won out....

Friday night, Jeff and the kids and I decided we needed to hunt down some pumpkins before trick-or-treating came and we had no glowing faces to greet the candy seekers. So we went to Ashcombe Farms to find some autumn fun and some pretty pumpkins. We had a lot of fun in their corn maze. Fortunately, the maze was kid friendly, so even when we thought we might have lost one or both of the kids, their hysterical laughing guided us easily to them.Once all the fun in the hay and corn was had, we decided to head over to the store to check out the pumpkins. We were distracted by all the other fun things in the store (including decisions about snacks from the candy shelf for the ride home) and actually ended up leaving without a pumpkin! Luckily, our grocery store carries pumpkins, too...

Saturday started early as we headed to Doyles-
town for a triple birthday party of 3 of our nephews. This party was held on a steam engine and the kids had a blast with their cousins.



After the party, we skeedadled to Jeff's sister's house to get ready for a wedding that was an hour and a half away in northern New Jersey. We left the kids there with Jeff's mom and headed to the happy event of my dear friend's wedding. Esther and I met 10 years ago during our summer in Saskatchewan, Canada doing missions on Native American reserves and she has been such a good friend over time and distance since then. She was in our wedding and I was thrilled to be able to celebrate with her at her and Jimmy's wedding. It was also a lot of fun to see Jannie, another friend made way up in the prairies of Canada. It was a late night until we arrived home with children in toe, but worth every minute traveled.