What Your Halloween Habits Say About You

You're a friendly person, but not the life of the party. You like making someone else's day - and you'll dress up if you think of a really fun costume. You definitely think of yourself as someone who has a dark side. And part of having that dark side means not showing it. Your inner child is open minded, playful, and adventurous. You truly fear the dark side of humanity. You are a true misanthrope. You're prone to be quite emotional and over dramatic. Deep down, you enjoy being scared out of your mind... even if you don't admit it. You are a traditionalist with most aspects of your life. You like your Halloween costume to be basic, well made, and conventional enough to wear another year.

What's Your Halloween Personality?

Pumpkin Fest

I Love the fall... Pumpkins, apples and haybales - oh my!

Love the Fall Weather...

What a gorgeous weekend we had. 80 Degree weather and sunny - perfect for a day at the zoo with the folks from up north. Aunt Jennifer and cousins Alex and RJ came down from Michigan to spend the weekend with us, which thrilled Maggie and Ethan. They love seeing the boys any chance they get.

Whenever I see the sting rays, I start singing that song from "Finding Nemo" when Mr. Ray comes to pick up the kids for school. Weird, I know.

I already have a diva on my hands... Sigh...

My boy - look at his smile!


RJ making friends with the goats.

Maggie and the polar bears. Our zoo is supposed to be getting a polar bear exhibit in the next year or two - I can't wait!

This poor moose was having a bad weekend. He was about to lose his antlers, and had to be separated from the female moose because of mating season. Yeah, I'd be on edge too if I were him.
We love our cousins!

Two boys, zoo tired.

Apple Pickin

You know it is fall when it is time to hit the apple orchard. Off we went, with buckets in hand to our famous Lynd Fruit Farm. They have huge fields with so many apple trees and every type you can think of... I don't know how the trees stand - the branches were literally falling over with all of the apples on them. I helped them thin the harvest by siccing my kids on their trees.

Maggie's idea of apple picking is to try to sample each apple she picks and then putting them in her basket. We also had to show Ethan that the apples on the ground weren't supposed to be for us to take. After a few pointers, they seemed to get the hang of it...

Maggie and Ethan trying a sample of the bountiful harvest

I love this picture! I am a very lucky girl...