Pumpkin Farm Times Two

We took two trips to the Pumpkin Farm this year!  The first time was with Halle and her friend while Daddy and Landri stayed home recooping from surgery.  We are so lucky to have an awesome pumpkin farm here with animlas to feed, a couple haunted houses, a huge corn maze, pig races, hay to jump in, and a ton more!  The girls had a blast running around the farm and we topped off the day with Halle picking out a 25 pound pumpkin!  "Isn't this place awesome??!!" was Halle's theme for the day! The pic is of her and her friend Chloe "peacing out". :-)  Loved it!

The second trip was our whole family on an evening trip to the farm sponsored by the AEAs in our area for the families of deaf and hard of hearing kids.  It was a cold rainy night, but they had a nice warm party room where we ate dinner and played games.  Of course....do you ever realize that it is cold outside when you are 8?  never!  When we very first got there Landri's Teacher of the Deaf snatched Landri out of our arms to introduce her to everyone so Greg, Halle and I took the time to run around the farm and had so much fun even in the cold.  Halle made a buddy there and they went in the haunted house like 1000 times.  The best part was that we got to connect with families in our area that have already been in our shoes.  A few of them were families that I called right after learning of Landri's deafness so that they could tell me "everything will be okay".  It was so great to meet them and their wonderful kids in person.  What an awesome new family we have created around us!!  Very cool!

We have a very busy week to come....Halle has dress up days everyday at school for Red Ribbon Week, Marion is in the football playoffs, Halloween, and Halle's 2nd Cheer Competition.  Go Go Go!!  Thank goodness everyone is fairly healthy and as far as I know....only Landri's Teach of the Deaf Therapy appt, but NO doctors!  Wooooo hooooo!! 

In the days to come I will post more on how Landri's implant will work and hopefully let y'all know her activation date which is when they will turn her implant on and she will hear sound for the first time!  Then we can all start a countdown!

On a very very side note...Amber...the apple crisp rocked....thanks so much!

Peace out!