Happy Birthday Cody!

 

It's party time in our house again and this time it's for Cody! Our baby boy is 5 now! We had pizza from Papa Johns of course, root beer (Cody's favorite) and of course cake. Zach made an awesome monster truck cake! We found it on the internet and copied it as best we could. I think it turned out pretty good. Cody got a new bowling set, a huge firetruck (thank you grandma), monster trucks, some spending money (thank you great grandma and nana and bapa!) and I think that is it. He had a great time and didn't want to clean up to go to bed!

The New Truck

Zach requested I put on some pictures of his precious truck. He has not driven the van since and I am not kidding. It's a nice truck so I can't complain that he is happy. At least he will leave me alone now. Ever since he had to sell his truck in Alaska and we were stuck with our little Saturn in Germany he has wanted a truck again so we saved and worked it out to get him one. I always want to wait until we are more settled, but it didn't happen in Alaska so I knew it wasn't happening here! Some of the options I like are that we taught it to open our garage so we don't have to use the remote. That is cool! It also has satelite radio which is really nice. I love not having to listen to commercials during the peak times for 30minutes! Wait I don't get to drive it, so Zach is enjoying the satelite radio! Anyway I have done my job by posting!

Russo's Farm

This farm has been in the family for 4 generations and the 5th generation is currently being trained to take it over when they are old enough! They have apple orchards and grow everything from corn to onions to pumpkins. All year round they have various things you can pick yourself. We took a hay ride to the field where the corn maze was then we drove around the rest of the farm. We stopped where most of the pumpkins were grown to see if there were any left that we liked. Up front they had most of them, but the boys found some in the field. It was a fun day. We brought home pumpkins, corn and delicious apple cider! The produce is expensive, but so worth it!

Picking Pumpkins

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Corn Maze Fun

There are lots of farms around here so we had a hard time deciding which one to go to for pumpkins and fun. Cody's class went on a field trip so I decided it was the closest and with the weather not being too great it was best to be closer to home. We managed to get through the maze with only sprinkles off and on.

The start of the maze. The exit is only 20 feet from the entrance, but of course finding it was not that easy! We all started out together.

At first it seemed dull, not turns or anything. Finally we came to a fork in the road! So what did we do, split up just like the sign said not to! Zach went one way with Tyler and Ryan had a harder time deciding. He ended up with me and Cody.

We found lots of dead ends along the way!

I was pretty sure Zach and Tyler had made it out and we were the lost ones! We started following his footprints, then realized they were going in circles a lot. we could hear the tractor that brought us to the field so started taking paths to work our way towards it. Finally we made it out! But no Zach and Tyler! About 15 minutes later they finally came out!

Boys and their toys!

My dad made these guns for the kids. I forgot to ask them what each one has so will have to do that later since Tyler and Ryan are gone already. Cody is very attached to his. He won't let anyone touch it and he puts it by his bed to sleep. Zach decided he needs one too. So Tyler has placed a second order.

Ryan's Birthday Celebration

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With moving we had a family party this year for Ryan. As I looked back on pictures of previous moving years I noticed they all had moving boxes so I made an effort to not have any boxes! I blew up some balloown and trie to decorate a little, but I am not sure he cared. He is big in Bakugan so he got a T-shirt, some cards, two of the figures (don't ask the names, I have no idea!) and then Tyler got him the dual light saber he saw at the store and was dying to get! Grandma and Grandpa sent Monsters vs Aliens which was perfect that it came Friday so the kids could stay up late to watch it! Nana and Bapa sent money and as you can see from the picture he was more than pleased! He also got money from Great Grandma in Florida! He is dying to go spend it all now!

At school they ate cupcakes and he got a card from the lunch monitors, his teacher and new pencils and something else. I think a book, but I can't remember. He was so excited to be coming home with it all! Oh and of course Zach gets credit for the cake. I found a picture on the internet and Zach did pretty good copying it.