fallapalooza

Every year the baptist church puts on this free carnival right before Halloween.  It was awesome.  Finn was to young to really reap the benefits.  I was old enough and i certainly did! They had the trampoline harness activity and I have always wanted to try it.  We had to wait in line for a while, but it was well worth it.  It was surprisingly tough.  My arms and legs are still sore! haha I got so high it was incredible.

  They had tons of bouncy houses and games.  I am looking forward to next year when Finn can do some of the activities.  We met the Lingren's there and Their little girl rode the ponies and Devon and their son climbed the rock mountain! After we were done we went to lunch and confirmed our plans for dinner that night.  Cole and I got a babysitter for the night and the 4 of us went out to dinner.  We ate at the Stock Exchange.  It is one of Rachel and Devon's favorite places.  Their food was breath taking! You can see the chef's create your meal while you sit and wait.  It was a great first date after Finn.  The restaurant offers cooking lesson's every Wednesday and Rachel and I are signing up!  It was hard leaving Finn for an hour, but we really enjoyed our selves.

Crafting while the hubby builds a fence!

We have these great friends; The Lingren's.  They are awesome.  They are the same age as us and they have two adorable kidos.  One weekend they needed help building a fence around their property and Cole loves to do that sort of thing.  Rachel found this really cute crafting idea.  We paper mached plastic pumpkins! It was so much fun.  I made homemade pizza for lunch and we all hung out.  The fence took them two days to finish.  Devon was so thankful for the help and Cole enjoyed the chore.  Their kids were a great help with Finn and they even helped me with my pumpkin.

Devon and Cole....You should have seen these two!  They were amazing,  once they got into a rhythm they were so fast.  They wouldn't even brake for lunch or to even take a drink.  Such good men.

 These 3 are going to be great friends.  They are so gentle and sweet to our little boy.

                                          Standing up by himself! He is growing up so fast!

Our pumpkins! It was so much fun.  Rachel was so speedy, she made 3 in the time that I had finished one and was half way finished with my second.  They turned out super cute.

6 mos and CAmPing!!

Finn turned six months on Friday.  We drove up into the mountains ( yes! New Mexico has MOUNTAINS!) to camp this weekend.  We stayed at Camp Tall Pines.  It was so relaxed.  As we drove into camp there were dogs and horses running around.  There was no one staying in the same area as us so we kinda got the place to our selves.  It was a very nice area.  They had toilets and hot showers so we didn't need to rough it.

Cole made us Hobo dinners for the first night.  They turned out pretty great.  Hamburger, peppers, carrots and potatoes rolled in foil and set in the fire.  Of course we had s'mores...Finn even enjoyed a marshmallow.  Finn fell asleep in my lap while we were enjoying the fire and then all of a sudden WHAP!!  I heard this loud smack noise and then a huge scream from Finn.  Cole was trying to nail me with a mallow and got Finn right in the head. Cole felt so bad! :( To calm Finny down we let him suck on the thing that woke him up.  He loved it.  Why wouldn't he?!?  I am pretty sure he was on a sugar high the rest of the trip. haha

That night after we were full from good food and a delicious dessert we went into the Allen's tent for a game.  We played Carcassone.  It is way fun! You build this city and pray that the dragon doesn't eat the citizens.  About halfway through the game the wind picked up and we were glad we were warm in the tent.  Cole and I both swore we heard a little growl!  And the next morning our Cheetos were gone! There was a trail leading off into the woods.  The wind blew so hard their tent blew over and they ended up sleeping in the car.  That was a bummer, but they handled it with a great attitude.  I was impressed with our truck tent. You couldn't even tell that the wind was gusting outside.  Finn and Cole had the best 4 hr sleep.  When you are camping and go to bed really late you get woken up early weather you are ready to be up or not.  Cole got the fire going again and we ate bagels, grapes and apple juice for breakfast.  I was craving a big cup of hot cocoa.  We made a few s'mores too.   Then once we were warm again we finished our game and had lunch.  Cole grilled his sandwich by the fire. Our lunch was interrupted by a Frisbee Golf tournament.  They have a course throughout the campsite.  That was fun to watch for a bit.  We went on a little hike after lunch.  There weren't any trails so we just made one up.

We got our camp cleaned up and drove into Cloudcroft.  It is a cute little town.  Their shops closed about the time we got there so we didn't get to see much, but we ate at this pizza place and it was pretty good.  Derek turned us on to Pepperoni and Jalapenos.  Delicious.  Then we drove home.  Finn slept for the drive and then didn't sleep at all when we got home.  We finally got a few hours in at around 4am! Unfortunately we slept through most of church.  Our first family camping trip was a success and we are already talking about going back in a few weeks.