Pumpkin Patch with School

Several weeks ago, Addie's school went to the Pumpkin Patch. They started with the cow train & unlike last year, I convinced Addie to ride with a friend! well, i might have told her she could ride with a friend or not ride! ;0) and she had a blast!

we made our way over to feed the animals

and see the mama pig. this mama was grazing contently right up until the farmer tried to get near her piglets. then she ran over to them, they hid behind her, and she snorted and charged. nobody was going to touch her babies!
so we headed up for snacks when i grabbed this one of these four sweet girls. a new favorite!

this is yet another reason why i love where our girls go to preschool.

after snacks the kids played around...

and jumped! right before we got a class picture!

then we headed to get our pumpkins i'm so thankful for the sweet friends addie has made. her class is quickly becoming as close as last year. there was a little corn box playing

hay bail climbing and duck water racing!

and just when we thought we'd worn them out, they got to play on the bouncy slides! after actually being worn out...
we headed to watch the pig races...these pigs who were as tiny as those piglets just a few months ago; and that protective mama pig was the size of these just a year ago!

it was a fun morning with friends...and one big girl might have slept all the way back to school to pick up her little sisters! 

Surviving

...because not only has she now survived a collision with the gym floor in a running-while-dribbling-a-basketball-hula-hooping relay,

she's survived cancer

and can walk this relayto honor the memory of the survivors who now live healed forever in heaven.  

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. Romans 5: 1-5