Great Family weekend...

We had a great time with the family this weekend. Saturday we decided to have a special day for Matthew in light of all the attention Andrew's been getting these days. We thought we'd give him the ability to decide our day on Saturday. He had a great soccer game to start off with. He scored a goal in the first 2 minutes of the game against a team that has some great players. His team won 5-2. They did a great job of passing and dribbling. So proud of them and we really enjoy the watching soccer. After the game Matthew wanted to go to the corn maze and pumpkin patch to pick out some pumpkins to decorate. The boys got lost in the maze and of course we had to go in to get them. We continued the maze with them and spent over 45 minutes trying to find our way. We finally all gave up and sneaked through the corn to find the exit. Matthew picked a few large pumpkins and we got some fresh baked sugar donuts from Rulf's orchard. Mmm, mmmm.

When we got home Matthew wanted to decorate for Halloween. It's a bit earlier than we'd like, but it was his day so we got the boxes down and started to decorate. Matthew thought we should have a few more things and convinced Daddy to make a trip to the store with him to get this moving giant spider he's been asking for since last year. So along with some grave stones, skeletons, ghosts and spiders, we've got some decorating done. Hopefully the pumpkins will last until Halloween. We even picked up a few mums for the front stoop with some gourds.

We're only a few days away from our trip and we've got all our bags packed. It's a good thing we started packing because we were missing the video camera charger and some paperwork that never got filled out completely. So now we are all set to go. Time for a good night sleep for everyone.