Tales of the Fauver Family: We had a very busy weekend!!!

We had a very busy weekend, but we had a lot of fun & did some exciting things! This post is picture heavy...FYI :)

First, Saturday we had portraits taken for the Church directory. Although the morning didn't exactly get off on the right foot, the session went great & we did find a family picture that we really liked :)

Saturday after naps, we took the kids downtown to the Auto Show at the convention center. Josh had a good time looking at the BIG trucks & fancy cars (and let's face it...he's 2, he loved just being able to run around like a crazy kid!) Afterwards, we walked up the river walk to the Rainforest Cafe. I had forgotten it was Halloween weekend, so the Riverwalk was crowded, but we got to see a Halloween Riverboat parade. Addie fell asleep pretty quickly after getting seated, but Josh was very intrigued by the atmosphere and the moving panda bears we sat next to. The only thing he wasn't crazy about were the "thunderstorms" that happened every so often (where they dim the lights & have thunder & lightning).

Sunday, Mike made an early morning trip to the dear lease to get some work done out there. I enlisted the help of our friend Laura to take the kids to the pumpkin patch. We went to St. Thomas Episcopal School and it was great! The people there were so nice & the kids really seemed to like it!

He could NOT decide which pumpkin he wanted...I think he picked 3-4 different ones before he finally decided on one :)

Our beautiful babies!

I really like this backdrop...made for a cute picture!

This is the pumpkin Addie wanted...this girl knows what she wants!!!

The funniest part was Josh's fascination with the rotten & broken pumpkins in the woods. He kept saying "Oh no, pumpkin's broken" LOL

After the pumpkin patch, we went home & carved our pumpkin. This was the first time for Josh (and it had been a LONG time since I had carved one). We started with the obvious....cutting the top off & getting the seeds out! I am going to roast the pumpkin seeds so we can snack on them as well...waste not, want not! :)

Josh diving in to retrieve some pumpkin seeds and some "gluey" stuff as he called it :)

Our finished product!!!

Sunday, after naps, we headed to the Concordia Fall Festival. This was our first time to go & it was pretty fun! They had pony rides, a train ride, bouncing houses, slides, bingo, snacks...you name it :) Josh got to see acouple of his friends...Anna & Ella but he missed Reese & Kayla too!