The Mistress has been sold!

This post is very upsetting for me. We purchased the mistress when Gordon turned 25 and had what I called his "quarter life crisis". He so badly wanted a little British car that he could fix up and he found this little 1956 MGA that was in some one's side year that looked like a pile of rust, actually I felt that $500 for it was way too much, but Gordon convinced me that they were rare and this way a good deal. Well Gordon worked countless hours on her and spent oodles (yes, easily in the thousands) of money (hence her name "The Mistress") and this is what she looks like today. The MG is super fun to drive even though is doesn't have any kind of top at all, no A/C, no power steering, but it does have a Chevy V6 that pushes it right along! It's been a while since she has been driven and Gordon hates to see it just sitting and getting dinged in the garage by brooms and tools, so he decided to sell. Dad's little tiny red car (as Jude calls it, since we have 2 other red cars...yes, the Magnum and Expedition are both red) will be picked up today by the shipping company that is taking it to it's new owner on the east coast. We hope he enjoys it and takes good care of it! We will miss her! Goodbye little Mistress!

It's the Great Pumpkin!

We had a great time carving pumpkins, first just as our little family and then last night with the rest of our family! We missed Tish, John and Peyton! Mom and Dad got back from their cruise to the Bahamas on Sunday, so they wanted to have a family home evening and tell us all about it and give us some little treasures that they got for each of us. It was lot of fun. Mom moved her car out of the garage and we all carved pumpkin in there. Kai especially loved being in the garage in his walker running into all the pumpkins and people!

Saturday slides

Since Gordon is working on saturdays now, Jude and I have been trying to find things to do outdoors before the weather won't let us any more, and we found another farm to visit just down the street from our house. Gordon came for a lunch break and joined us for a little while. Jude loves the big dragon slide and played on it for a long time before Gordon got there, and then we went to the pumpkin patch and picked a family pumpkin. We had another first for Jude, he actually let a lady paint a dragon on his face! We've tried to talk him into letting people paint his face before, but he never would let anyone.

Weekend at Hotel Maughan!

I actually already typed out this whole long explanation and had pictures in it and everything, and then I posted it and realized that it had posted onto our Gorgeous Georges trailer blog instead of this one! AAAAHHH! So annoying!

Anyway, Summer and I took Jude, Maile and Kai to visit Uncle John, Aunt Tishi, and Peyton this past weekend and we took the kids to a working farm just outside of Woodburn. We went to the same farm last fall and the kids loved the hay slide and the pig races, so we figured we would take them back there again. Saturday was a little cloudy and had some showers, and we ended up being the only ones on the farm for about the first 30 minutes that we were there. Jude and Maile went straight to the hay slide and had a great time climbing up and sliding down. Summer, Tish and I went a few times too! Kai loved standing at the bottom and watching the kids slide past him. He is such a happy cute little boy and loves his sister and cousins! Peyton liked sliding too, but he really liked stomping in the mud puddles in his boots a whole lot more! The hay maze was really fun too and Jude actually was daring and took the lead, usually he is more regarded and a little shy, but not that day. We chose pumpkins in the pumpkin patch and then got a ride back on the hay trailer with the tractor. Jude and Maile rode the pig train, slide down the tube slide, fed the llamas and goats and had a great time on the hay obstacle course.