Fun Fall Randomness

And here is a really long post to document the rest of our crazy, fun fall. In no particular order...

We took any and every opportunity to gather up pumpkins. 

And we spent a night at the fair.

We visited Mitchell Farms one Saturday.

And came home to carve our harvest.

Sister had a school field trip to Mitchell Farms, too. But you really can't have too many pumpkins.

We've spent some time in the wilderness at Poppa's camp getting ready for deer season and now hunting some.

Target practice is a must! Brantlee's is more my speed. 

Collin is after the big rack buck tho.

I picked up B from school one day to see she had  pulled her own tooth during nap time and was awarded Student of the Month. That's a good day right there.

Thanksgiving Feast at school. Apparently 2nd graders don't dress up anymore. How sad :(

I have no words for these two pictures.

Well... it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here! And we are so excited!! Tomorrow officially kicks off the holidays with Thanksgiving. It will probably be a while before I touch the blog again. Til next time! 

Halloween

For Halloween this year we had Elsa, Minion Dave, and Dr. Ty. We started off our candy collecting at our church fall festival the night before Halloween. Much fun was had by all! Elsa and Dave enjoyed the games and festivities. Dr. Ty basically walked around and ate candy. That's what it's all about after all.

In true Crager fashion, we had to have a little drama thrown in the middle of it all though. Earlier in the week, I had taken Collin to the doctor for the "crud." He missed three days of school with fever and a horrendous cough. We had about decided it was the flu even though he tested negative for it.  I sent him back to school on Thursday. He attended the above festival for about 30 minutes. We knew he was sick if he wanted to leave early from something like that :( He seemed "okay" the next morning so I again sent him to school. I got a call at noon and had to go get him. We miraculously got him in at his regular doctor's office. And there they confirmed pneumonia. He was pitifully sick.

Two shots, a breathing treatment, a chest x-ray, and a large bag from the pharmacy and we were on with the weekend. The problem was that this was Halloween night, and this very sick little boy was having a mild stroke that he wasn't getting to trick or treat. He'd ONLY waited a year for this night. So, we did what any parent with any good sense would do. We threw on the costumes and jumped in the car. We made some quick stops and then one quick stroll down one street before the temperature began to drop. The things we do... But all was happy and eventually well.

Our Happy Halloween 2014