Mom's Visit

Wow, I can't believe that my mom leaves tomorrow morning!  We have had a great 10 days with her and how time flies!  She has worked hard on all sorts of projects for me while she has been here.  I will post pictures...it is so nice to have all my little to do's off of the list and finally be done with getting our house set up!  Thanks mom for all your help!

She and the boys made binoculars one day.  The boys loved them!  Ben saw all sorts of things through his "noculars", like dinasaurs and planes and race cars.  All his favorite things. 

Sunday on our walk to church we were greeted by neat antique cars.  They were having an antique car "race" from London to Brighton.  Really neat!

Heaven

One of the great things about living here is there are tons of places for moms to go with their kids.  The week before my mom came, I met a friend and her two kids at a place called Heaven.  It is a great big room with tons of toys and big leather couches.  The kids can play and there are people that come around asking if you would like anything to eat and drink.  So, I had a yummy cappuccino while my kids explored all kinds of toys.  It was awesome!  Upstairs is a spa and nursery where you can put your kids into while you get a treatment!  The boys loved all the new toys and playing with their friends.

These are our two Benjamins.  Love how their hair is just soo beautiful and different!

My sweet friend Kat!  

Our Duck Pond

Right around the corner from our home we have this great duck pond.  Usually, there are just mallards there but this week I took the boys and there are a bunch of new birds!  It was really exciting and fun to see!  Today was beautiful so we went to feed them.

We now have a blue billed ducks.  They can dive into the water and stay under water for a very long time.

We now have to sets of male and female swans.  Beautiful!

We also have a bunch of seagulls.

Mallards

This is called a wood duck and it is the only one in the group.  Beautifully marked.  All the other ducks stay away from it. 

So fun to be outside enjoying the beautiful weather with our boys. 

Tulley's Farm

Today, we went to Tulley's Farm with another family here.  It was a great day!  Fun to get out and enjoy the crisp fall air.  We are going to have to work with Nate, he does not like to wear a hat.  So funny how different brothers can be, Ben loves to wear hats and Nate can't stand them! 

They had this fun excavator that you would put money in and dig into the sand pit.  Ben waited very patiently to get to do this.  He was so excited.

Then Ben and Allen shot corn with air guns. 

Ben and his buddy, Wyatt, climbed up and slid down the slide.  I was really surprised that Ben would climb up that high.

He was a little anxious at the top and it took him a while to decide to slide down. 

But he did it!  Big boy!

Nate watching from the stroller.

A cute little puppet show.