Burk Fall Festival

Yesterday I went with Sam's school to the Burk Fall Festival at Burk Nursery. It was so awesome... and extremely stressful. It must have been field trip day because there were a zillion kids there all with matching shirts (we were supposed to wear red but I never got the memo-- literally they forgot to put it in sams bag). I was so excited thinking I was going to get some great fall pictures, but with two kids to look after and Abby in the sling I was basically running around like a chicken with my head cut off. It was not a cheap excersion but once inside I din't not feel bad about forking over the dough. Everything was for Sam and Liams age bracket. We started out on the huge mound of sand. There were buckets and shovels and the sand was filled with SPiders and dimes. You were allowed to take three of whatever you wanted. Sam only wanted one spider and Liam of course wanted the digger thing-- the one thing he couldn't take.

The only way I could tear them away from the sand was to take them down to the long wooden train. Of course Sam was in heaven.

Next to the train was this awesome tree swing. I was dying to get a picture of Sam or Liam swinging on it but they would have NONE of it. Doesn't this thing just beg to be photographed!

Really sam would have stayed here all day if I hadn't literally dragged him down to the Pirate ship. They had fun stearing the wheel and going down the slide until an older girl decided it was her turn and litterally grabbed the wheel and spun it hitting Liam in the cheek pretty brutaly. He of course started sobbing and it took everything in me not to be mean to the girl. As we were climbing down (Liam still screaming) the girl come sup and says "I want him to go back to the wheel." I let her know that we only play with nice people but thanks for the offer... I know I am a horrible person. Especially since I could totally see either of my boys doing what she did. Oh well I slipped. We headed over to the big plane but Liam just couldn't let what happened go.

He was crying out of the window of the plane and kept pointing to the pirate ship.

We finally diverted his attention with a cool tunnel where you go in the pirates mouth then climb up and slide down.

Well he couldn't climb up to slide down and I couldn't get in there and help him with Abby on my chest so he just stayed in the tunnel and wouldn't come out for about ten mins. Once Sam climbed in and told him to come ride on the horsies he relented. It was nice that you didn't have to pay for each ponyride but at the same time made it so I had no excuse as to why they had to get off.

Evenually some other kids came and darn it we had to move on... to the carpet slides! They had these great slides where you sit on a piece of carpet and ZOOM down them. The first time I didn;t think Lam would go down by himself so I went up with him. I must have given the poor worker a heart attack. He kept saying watch the baby. Haa! We zoomed to the bottom where another worker was freaking out, I thought about Abby, until I got a hefty kick to the back. It was Sam, he refused to listen and wait till we were out of the way. Next time I sent the boys up by themselves and I stayed down to take pics. I didn't want to miss this and thought I would get a horrible picture if I did it manually so I switched to auto. Bad idea, the picture is so dark. But still so cute!

Liam liked chillin at the bottom of the slide nearly being knocked over a bunch of times.

I decided we needed a break so we went on the hay ride that was included in the price of admission. Although there was no hay so it should have just been called tractor trailer ride ;)

The lady that took this pic said "um they aren't looking." I laughed and said "Hey the fact that I am even in a picture of them will be great." We hoped off and I showed the boys the HUGE long message tube.
Liam yelled BRO BRO!!! over and over

And Sam infomred this other little girl that Liam was telling him an important message...

We went down and played on the train for a few more minutes. Then I was apparenlty due for a heavy dose of humility. I was on one side of the train tying to conivnce Liam to go on the swing when I hear "Who's litle boy is that?" I think of crude please don't be mine. I rush around and there is Sam with his pants to his ankles peeing on a bush!!!! OH MY GOSH. I sprint up to him nearly dropping abby and start yelling stop stop stop. But I guess this is really hard to do. Sam starts crying as I tell him that we are going to get kicked out and why in the world didn't he just TELL me he had to pee!!! It was awful. Thankfully no workers saw and the other moms I think could tell I was sufficiently mortified.
After this lovely incident I thought Sam would have fun in the barrels that you roll down a hill in. He saw other girls doing it so he climbed in but would not listen to me about sitting in the middle. This is him before going down the hill:

I didn't get an after becase he was screaming from his stomach getting pinched between the tube and the ground... yeah that was my cue to leave. We went and picked out our tin pumpkin and hit the road. I was officially exhausted and ready for a nap. Only problem-- when I opened the door to our apt. I was met with this site:

no not the messy apt. thats normal :) Our shipment from UT had FINALLY arrived. So happy yet so tired all at once.
I had to post this today because in an hour and a half we find out where we are going!!! I am so excited yet so nevous. I actually feel physically ill!