Harvest of Friends

Tonight was Harvest of Friends at our church. I have come to love this tradition at our church.  It is so fun seeing all the kids run around in their costumes and getting to invite people into our church for dinner and games.

Will wore his baseball uniform. He loved it and couldn't get enough of the socks.  I had a friend make the shirt and he loved that it was his favorite color - GREEN!!!

He played a couple of games and rode on the train.  He even did trunk-or-treat with Mawmaw for about 10 cars. 

Here are some pictures from the night:

Playing soccer.

Not loving the train ride at first, but he got over it and rode the train about 10 times.

Uncle John!

Playing a game with Kritchen.

Riding the train with "Linda". Can you see his little blonde head?

Will and Jackson. Jackson was literally running all over the place so we had to catch him to get the picture.

Best buds - Will and Gavin.  This is the first successful Halloween picture of the boys. Normally, one or the other or both are crying.

Trunk-or-Treat!

Will with his "best fwiend" Cody! Love how funny both of them look!

We had over 400 people come to Harvest of Friends and we were able to share Jesus with them and that is the most important part of the night!!

OktoberFest

Saturday, our town held an fall festival at the park called OktoberFest.  All the local churches and businesses have tents and there are some games for the kids.

Clay and Richard went to Auburn for the game, so Julie, Beth, Kristen, Will, and I went and walked around for a bit. It was SSSOOO cold and windy but that didn't stop us from having a good time.

Will played some games and "won" a bat and alligator. All the games were "everyone is a winner" type deal so it was pretty much us paying for him a prize, but he thought it was awesome.

We hung out at our churches tent for a while and Will got to play with some of his friends.

We ended the morning with lunch at Wendy's, then naps, and then we watch Auburn beat Ole Miss!

Chili and Pumpkin Carving

Friday night, Ashley, Beth, Julie, Richard, Mom, and Dad came over to the house to eat chili and carve pumpkins. 

I love eating chili on cold nights and it was such a wonderful fall night to have chili on Friday.

After we ate, we carved our pumpkins.  Will had two pumpkins, so we let him pick out something to carve on the first one and did his name on the second one.  Our punpkin carving kit came with some design pages and Will picked the "castle" (aka spooky house).  That is the one I carved and Beth carved his name in the other one.  Richard brought a pumpkin and carved two ghosts.

Will did not actually participate as much as I would have wanted, but it was fun to sit around with family and friends and make memories.

The Ice Cream Truck

I know it's October, but yesterday we let Will have a treat from the ice cream truck. 

When I was getting Will out of the car, we heard the music and Will started screaming "ice cream, ice cream!!"

Clay grabbed some cash and the ice cream truck stopped so Will could pick out an ice cream.

He picked a green and blue Popsicle. No surprise there since those are his two favorite colors.

The only down side was the Popsicle stained his face. It took forever to get it off, but it was a small price to pay for some afternoon happiness!

Saturday and Sunday

This past weekend was so pretty. The weather was absolutely wonderful. 

Saturday, we hung around the house and played. 

We spent some of the afternoon outside and Will rode his tricycle in the driveway.

He had the best time and kept wanting me and Clay to watch him go fast!

Later, Kristen and Jordan came over to watch the Auburn/LSU game.  Kristen found this fireman jacket for Will and he loved it!

We had corndogs in honor of LSU.  Of course the game didn't go the way we would have liked but it was fun hanging out with friends.

Sunday, was business as usual. We went to church and then out to lunch with friends.  That afternoon, Pawpaw meet us and took Will shopping for new clothes. 

On Sunday nights, Kristen and I work in the nursery.  We thought it would be fun to make pumpkins with the kids.  Crafts only keep the attention of 2 and 3 year olds for about 5 minutes.  Kristen ended up finishing some of the pumpkin decorations.

And this picture is random, but this tree is in one of our neighbors yards. I made Clay stop the car and let me take a picture. I just thought the colors in the tree were so pretty!

Happy Fall!!!!

"but you're my best friend"

Lately, Will has been pushing his boundaries when it comes to bedtime.  We have the same bedtime routine every night.  We put on Will's PJs, read a book or two, say prayers, and then lights off. 

Well, about 3 weeks ago Will figured out that he could turn the door knob and get out of his room.  So that started a nightly ritual of him coming out of his room and standing in the hall calling for us.  We instituted a "you can not get out of your bed unless mommy or daddy come into the room" rule.  That worked for a day or so.

Then Will started yelling for us.  He was REALLY loud.  So loud, that one of us would eventually have to go in there to tell him to stop yelling.  We then tried to explain to him that he only needed to yell if something was really wrong.  He then proceeded to start screaming "I NEED YOU MOMMY/DADDY!!!" Finally, he stopped the yelling for a couple of days. 

In all of this, we found the more tired he was, the more he tried to stall going to sleep. 

So last night, he was really tired!  We put Will to bed,  and Clay and I went about picking up around the house and getting ready for bed.  We heard Will talking to himself so we figured he would fall asleep in a few minutes.  Clay and I were standing in our bedroom talking and the next thing we hear is the door knob of Will's door turning.  I went to Will's door and this was the conversation that followed:

Me: Will get back in your bed.


Will: but you're my best fwiend

Me:  Will you need to get back in your bed

Will:  but you're my best fwiend, I need you

Me  (while holding Clay back because he thought it was so cute, he wanted to rush in and "save" him from bedtime): Will get back in your bed now

Will: I need my best fwiend

I opened the door and Clay and I both went in.  He jumped back in his bed and was smiling. Clay gave him one more kiss and hug, and then left the room. I explained to Will that he needed to go to sleep and that Mommy and Daddy needed to go to bed too.  I went and checked on him about 20 minutes later and he was fast asleep.

I am sure we have many more nights of bedtime drama ahead of us. Thankfully, once Will is asleep, he is a great sleeper and doesn't get up during the night.

A Full Saturday

Saturday was busy!  Clay left at 6 am to head to Auburn for the game. Will and I were sad to be staying home, but I get nervous taking him to big SEC games that start late.

Will and I spent the morning hanging around watching cartoons and eating breakfast.  Soon it was time to get ready for our first birthday party.

Will's best friend, Gavin, is turning 3 this week so we headed to his sports themed birthday!  Will had a great time playing with all the sports toys.  We soon had to leaved that party to head to our next birthday party.

We met up with Kristen and headed to Ryland's house to celebrate his first birthday!  Will had a blast playing outside on the swing set and riding Ryland's Thomas train. 

After celebrating two birthdays, we headed home for a much needed nap!  Will was so tired he fell asleep on the couch, which has happened maybe twice in his entire life.  i moved Will to his bed and was able to take a nice little nap myself.

Once we woke up, we got ready and headed to Kristen and Jordan's for pizza and football.  Robby and Molly were there too.  Molly and Will had so much fun playing together.  They were cracking us all up. 

We ended the day with an Auburn win, which is always a great end to a Saturday!