Oma and Opa visit!

My parents make a pilgrimage to our house twice a year. This year was once again during Halloween and we had activities planned for them the whole week.

Monday we headed to Bishops Pumpkin Farm in Wheatland.  Andy and I found this place a few years back, and came for our first time when I was pregnant.  We knew we would have to come back every year. They have amazing food, rides, atmosphere, food, and food!  This year we came on a Monday to escape the crowds and get free parking.  We were not disappointed. 

This cute little bus!

                                     

Running to find some pumpkins. Since this was on the 28th, there were very few left, which was fine for us.

 

After running around looking at pumpkins, we went on the little train that goes around the farm.

 

 Verona's face is priceless. She freaked out last year when we went through the tunnel, and this year it was slightly better.

After the train we headed to the petting zoo.  Pigs, goats, sheep, donkey's, the whole little farm was there. My dad got these ice cream cones filled with animal food so you could feed the animals. It was pretty hilarious.

Next to the pettin zoo, was this large covering, that had what appeared to be a trampoline, but it was covered in hay. Kids were jumping, playing, rolling around. The twins had a super fun time.

I tried to get a picture of the kids with my parent. It did not go well.

We had lunch, and Trent found this little truck/tractor and played there for a long time. We took the kids over to this slide/playhouse, and let them play with my parents watching while we went to the little shop on the farm and picked our our annual decoration.

 

Outside of the shop were all these home made rocking horses. Even adults could get on them, so hilarity ensued. 

Bishops has the best apple themed desserts. Andy got these Apple Dumplings, and they were amazingly delish!

After stuffing ourselves full of Apple Dumplings, we got an Apple Pie, a gallon for Apple Cider and called it a day and headed home. 

More posts to come from the Hijinx from our week with Oma and Opa.

Stuck in the middle with you

Mid-October always ends up being crazy busy for us.  This year was no exception.  I am a member of the Butte County Mothers of Multiples club. Synopsis: mothers of twins, triplets and more who get together and do fun stuff with and without our kiddo's.  This group has been amazing.  I joined when I was still pregnant and had only a bazillion questions that needed to be answered.  Our club is part of the overall Northern California branch of the national Multiples of America group.  Our little club hosted the annual Fall Retreat this year.  We had over 50 moms from all over Nor Cal (Sac, Bay Area,etc).  Our club worked so hard to get this retreated put together and it was awesome.

We had a bunch of raffle baskets and I won one of the baskets!

We did a wine tasting at Long Creek Winery and the setting was superb.  

I was a DD for the day, so I took it upon my self to be a "sommelier"  for the afternoon. I talked with the owner and learned all about the wines and explained to each of the moms there. It was really quite fun.

One of the mom's in my club, her husband got this old school limo with the horns on it as a 40th birthday gag gift from friends. It is hilarious. The horn is the same from Dukes of Hazzard. 

 Some of the mom's from my local club!

A few days after the retreat, it was Andy and mine's 8th wedding anniversary.  It fell on a Tuesday, which is also swim lesson night so we didn't do anything big that night. I did surprise Andy though after we got home from swim lessons. 

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I tied a memory I had of him/us to 8 different balloons and then let them float around our bed, which also had some German beer for him and a San Francisco 49ers beer koozy.

That weekend, we got our night out to celebrate. We went to Sipho's a Jamaican restaurant. It is located waaay off the beaten path, and not many people know of it. I had seen it a few times, and Andy had seen it more recently due to having to take a different route to work due to construction. The food was amazing.  We were *sorta* going to see a movie, but none that we kinda wanted to see were playing when we were done eating. So instead we went to Target and walked around, because we NEVER get to go to a store just the two of us anymore. Sounds lame, but it was nice and quiet for us.

The next night Andy's dad came over and we carved pumpkins.  The kids were pretty into it. I let Verona draw a face on her pumpkin then I cut it out. Andy did one for Trent, then his dad did a one as well.

That week temperatures soared into the mid to upper 80's, then cooled off the the mid 40's at night. The pumpkins couldn't stand the heat the cold, and went moldy rather quickly. It was disgusting. I have never had a pumpkin do that before. Andy made the ghost and his dad the bat.  I think next year we will wait until just a few days before Halloween to do pumpkins.