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Weekend Fun

Whew...it has been quite a busy weekend (a busy week, really)and now that I've had my Sunday Afternoon Nap, I finally have some clarity of thought to sit down and blog about it (the weekend that is, not the nap, although it was rather wonderful). Part of my problem this week has been that I have not been sleeping very well. I wake up feeling like I've been beaten up in my sleep and my eyes are so puffy it's absolutely ridiculous!! To the point of being laughable! My eye mask that I keep in the fridge has definitely been getting some use.
I've decided that maybe it has something to do with the fact that we've been sleeping with the windows open at night. I just love that and the weather has been so lovely and cool that I can hardly resist it. I've even been leaving them open most of the day, too, until the mid-afternoon when it starts getting hot. Well, I thought I would try leaving them closed last night to see if there was a difference this morning. And there was. I'm guessing there's something in the air with the seasons changing that is getting to me. I still felt stiff and a little tired, but my eyes were not nearly as puffy. So maybe tonight will be even better.

Now, about the weekend fun--since I'm sure you're wondering what open windows and puffy eyes have to do with that. Nothing really.
Yesterday some of our good friends invited us to their daughter's school's fall festival. So we took the kiddos over for the morning. They had so much fun at those little booths, winning their little prizes, and getting balloon toys from the clowns.


And, of course, there was also the bouncy slide and the pony cart rides, too.




After the carnival, we took them to an apple festival. Every year since we moved here we've gone to an apple festival that's held each fall in a little town about an hour away and this was the weekend. They have arts, crafts, food (think: funnel cake!), antiques, and, of course, apples and cider. Yum!! We mostly just go to buy some cider, sample a million varieties of apples, and eat some fair food. The booths are all set up in a beautiful pine grove and the kiddos always love exploring there. Here are some snapshots of the afternoon there:

apples, apples


and more apples!


sampling all of the different varieties--very fun!

taking a ride on the apple express, whoo whoo!!

keeping busy little hands out of the vendors' booths!

exploring in the pine grove

I know this has been a long post, but, hey, it was a long day! But a very fun one, the kind that gives you that good sort of tired feeling.

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