Pumpins

This year we decided that we would pass up the fun carving that we normally do and, decorate our pumpkins by paining them! This was much easier than a ooey gooey mess that we would have encountered with having a 2 year old around. Sadie loved painting hers all different colors, and then camouflaging all the pretty colors with black paint and sparkles.

 Mom's Pumpkin

 Jake's pumpkin

Sadie's finished pumpkin

While we were painting we were jamming out to music, Sadie was having a blast and I actually caught a good little clip of her on video... take a look =)

{having trouble getting the video to load I will try it again later}

Halloween Events

Here the Kelly School of Business has a few "clubs" that they encourage all students and families to get involved with, and participate in the fun events they put on. We have been spoiled with how busy they keep us and how much they feed us. They have the MBAA (Masters of Business Administration Association), Partners Club (for spouses, partners of the MBA students), and Partners Kids Club (for spouses, or partners of the MBA students with kids). All of these groups put on their own parties for holidays, or just for fun and keep us constantly on the run with something fun to fill our free time. {mine and Sadie's free time, Jake doesn't know what free time is anymore}

This year they ran a couple of the events back to back so they wouldn't take up too many of our nights before Halloween. The MBAA put on a great Trick-or-Treat, followed by a yummy dinner and carnival put on by KKPC.

 

 Sadie and her friend, she lives in our culdesac and they play together all the time.

Group of our friends kids. Aren't they all so cute!

Greek Trick-orTreat Street

Here at IU the Greek community puts on a fun trick-or-treating event for everyone. Sadie was so excited to dress up in her pirate costume and go get CANDY!

 I loved watching her face as she saw all of these kids dressed up. At first she didn't care about the trick-or-treating, she was captivated by all the kids in costumes. "Mommy, look there is Buzz, Mommy Woody.... a PRINCESS!!!!" It was so much fun to see her reaction to all of the kids and their characters. 

 Here she is running after Buzz, she wanted to say hi to him =) {I love this little girl and her enthusiasm}

Time to call it a night!

Nashville

Nashville, Indiana... not Nashville, Tennessee, I know you were all thinking of Nashville Tennessee! About 20 minutes east of Bloomington is this cute little tourist town, the drive there is so pretty in the fall. Artists from around the world travel to this cozy little town, snuggled into the hazy hills of Southern Indiana, to paint the gorgeous views and take amazing pictures. The locals here recommend that everyone make the at least once while they live here. So a few friends and I loaded our kids up in our van and journeyed out to experience the breathtaking views {yes, our husbands are too busy to make even a quick afternoon trip}.

Now being in Utah and taking the fall drives up the Canyons, I didn't think that fall could be better than that. Here there are so many more trees and varieties of colors that the experience is much different than I expected. The drive was beautiful. I don't know how I made this trip without taking any pictures, but I escaped without even a shot of Sadie or the views. Dang! I am sure that we will go again next year, heck I know we will probably go many times between this year and next year because the atmosphere is so much fun! Next fall I will have to get some pictures to show you all! If you come and visit you can experience it for yourself =0)

Freeman Family Farms

I am sure you have all been wondering where the heck I have been! I kinda blame my slacking on this blog this pregnancy, but we have also been so busy with events and parties I have not had any time to sit down and catch up on all of the posts! So over the next couple of days you will see lots of posts =0)

One of my friends and I decided that since we were not going to be taking a trip with the KKPC (Kelly Kids Partners Club) to the pumpkin patch, we would make our own little fun field trip with our kids to the local Pumpkin Patch here in Bloomington.

 They had a HUGE barn full of rocking horses, wagons, tike cars, and best of all... ANIMALS. They had bunnies, cats, dogs, goats, donkey, mini pony, horse, pigs all for the kids to pet. They even had feed that the kids could feed the animals with. It was a little kids sanctuary. {and a mom's nightmare of animal germs and slime} :)

 They made some fun balloon animals for them, Sadie got a butterfly.

 The biggest hit there was the train ride. Sadie and Caleb rode this thing more times than I can remember! I know that we will for sure have to come back next year for the fun petting zoo, pumpkins, hay ride, and fun toys to play on.

This local farm was the perfect place for our two active toddlers to run and have some fun!

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Lotus Festival

This weekend we were able to attend the local Lotus Festival, Sadie and I were even able to talk Jake into coming with us and spending some time as a family outside before it gets cold. We had a great time and loved all of the fun creative crafts that they had for Sadie. She was able to color a big fish, that they attached a string and fishing rod to, as well as a woven picture and a colorful paper art project. Everyone talks about how great this festival is, honestly I guess I went with high expectations, not that is was horrible, it just was a lot smaller then we are used to seeing festivals, and not a ton of people were there. But the arts and crafts totally made the trip worth it. We had one happy child! She loves to color, paint, draw, anything that is artsy she LOVES, and this festival was full of artsy opportunities.

Coloring her fish

Finished Fishy

Art on the wall

Sadie got to pet this Parrot and she LOVED it!

Weaving paper with Mom

So proud of her finished work =)