Movies and Corn Mazes

Friday it rained all day. We decided it was a good night to stay home and watch a movie. It turned out to be just what we needed. We made a huge pallet on the living room floor, everyone had a bowl of popcorn and a coke and we enjoyed the new Transformer movie together. Lance and Riley had seen it at the theatre, but Owen and I hadn’t. It was a good movie, kid friendly except for one ‘suggestive’ scene that we were able to skip over. When it was over Riley was ready to watch something else, and Owen was sound asleep on the floor. Again proving Owen’s point a week or so ago, that use blue-eyed family members like to turn in early and the brown-eyed ones like to stay up late.

Saturday was another football day. Riley’s team won their final regular season game, 24-0, which pushes them into the playoffs. I never would have guessed I could get so wrapped up in 7 year old football, but it is so much fun to watch. It’s even more fun knowing that Riley loves to play so much. After a day on the field, he wants to do nothing but come home and run plays in the living room or on the trampoline with Owen. We watched the UGA, LSU game that afternoon which added even more to the football-mania in our house. Mom and Dad came by to deliver the boys pumpkins they’d picked up for them in North Georgia. Riley managed to get Nanny outside to play a game of two-hand touch football for a few minutes. I don’t think the football was out of his hands for more than 5 minutes all day long. We ended the day with steaks on the grill. A delicious end to another fun day.

Sunday after church and lunch, we headed to Southern Belle Farm with Scotty and his family. It was a beautiful day for it, mid-60’s and sunny. We twisted our way through the corn mazes, rode the hay ride, the boys had a ball on the pedal car track, rode the cow-train, got soaking wet with the duck races, cheered for the pigs in the pig races and had fun burying each other in the corn pit. We also saw lots of animals – cows, horses, pigs, goats and donkey’s. Our plan had been to come home and carve our pumpkins, but since it was 7:30 before we got home and we’d been going hard all day, we postponed. I wish now we’d done it then because here we are a day before Halloween and we’ve yet to do our carving. I’m hoping we can do it tomorrow afternoon before everyone gets on their costumes.

Another weekend of football and fun heading our way. I love the Fall!