Oh the fun of eating out...

I had a lovely post written yesterday and lost it, grrrr.

Here's an abbreviated version!




Beautiful drive to Elkton Friday evening.

Harvest continues with Double Crop Soybeans.

Saturday morning, Susan, Bean and I go to a Thirty-one party.

Ate these super yummy sausage balls that I can't wait to eat!!

Saturday afternoon dealt with Mallory's crazy fits to go outside. I think she live out there if I'd let her.

Saturday bight we decided to attempt to go out to eat. Total fail. She just wanted to run through Rafferty's so we didn't even make it past drink orders.

Here we are sitting in the car. Ben brought me my dinner to the car.




I really swear this time, no more going out to eat for a while. At least until the novelty of walking has worn off for her.

Sunday we had a nice run and then I made her hair bow fir our family pictures to be made later in the afternoon.



Notice her pining to be outside in the above picture, she's staring out the back door, and here, at the front door....



Seriously, little makes her happier than stepping outside!

Ashton came at 4:30 and took pictures. She's posted 2 in FB and they are so cute, I can't wait to see the rest!

More harvest next weekend along with Halloween and hopefully they will finish with the soybeans this weekend!

Here's Bean in one of the laundry baskets, her new fav place to sit! Oh, and eating an oreo of course!


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Baby Girl Walking

I think it is safe to say we have a full time walker now.

There is very minimal crawling and now that she knows she can walk, she wants to walk all the time. Preferably in the grass outside. She is nuts about being outside.

Here's a picture of her screaming at the door because she wants to go outside.




This week Mrs Carole and her husband were off to Florida for fall break so me and Miss Bean tried to make it at home for the week and try to throw a little work in the mix as well. Lets just say I will be more than happy when our normal routine is happening again next week!

Wednesday was her 18 month appointment at the Dr. I wrote a quicky post about it but forgot to actualy post it on Facebook, but you can read about the details HERE. All is well, she's doing great!

Friday afternoon late we went to Trunnell's just down the road to the pumpkin patch. She's still a little to small for most of their activities, but we did get on the wagon and go down to the field and "pick" our pumpkin. I found the "pick your pumpkin patch" funny because it was quite obvious that they choose the pumpkins that are the "free with your paid hayride size" and then just plop them down at the pumpkin plant. There was no actual picking of the pumpkins from the plant, just pick up you pumpkin. That kinda bothered me, but whatever.

We took some great pictures, here's some of those.

Saturday we decided to go to Evansville. It was pretty much a shopping fail. I think I've convinced Ben that next time I want to go shopping, he and Mallory will just stay at home. We went to eat at a Mexican place. Fail. She did not want to sit in her high chair, she wanted to walk. So Ben and I took turns walking her around the resturaunt while the other ate. It was fairly miserable.




We then decided we needed one of those backpack leashes for her since walking is her new favorite thing. We made a quick run into BabiesRUs and came out with a cute Teddy Bear one.

Next stop, Target. Here wasn't too bad, Ben and Bean walked around with the leash while I looked at what I needed too. No meltdowns until we left and we wouldn't let her walk in the parking lot.




Then on to the mall. We dedided her and Ben would get ice cream and go to the kid play area and walk around while I was on my mission for jeans for me and an outfit for her to wear in our family pictures next weekend.

I found her an outfit and then I ran into the Buckle to look for jeans and was trying them on when she had another meltdown in front of the store so her and Ben went back to the car, pretty sure she was kicking and screaming the entire time and by the time I got there he swore he was never taking her anywhere until she was 12 and it was times like this that he now understood why parents drink, lol!

He's not as used to her fits as I am, but still, it can be stressful. So home we went with one quick stop at the butcher shop for one mighty fine rib eye steak that Ben later cooked to perfection. Yummy dinner!

Sunday after church and nap (M not me) and when Ben finished they yard, we went to Reid's Orchard Apple Festival. I've always heard of it but never been. Nothing overly exciting. We ate some food with apples in it, walked Bean around and then left. Been there done that, no reason I see to ever go back at this point.












So, overall a good weekend, just ready for our normal routine next week again!!

Here's Bean styling her sunglasses:




And here she was deciding she wanted her shirt to be off the shoulder:




Taking after aunt Sue enjoying playing in buckets:




Here she was having some tractor problems, thankfully she knows a red tractor mechanic:

18 months y'all

She was 18 months last week but today was her appointment with Dr Phillips.

All is great, seems to be pretty on track now that she's walking and pointing.

22 pounds 13 ounces, 25 %

31.5 inches, 40%

All is well. We get her flu shot tomorrow but no shots today and no more until 2. No visit again until 2.


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Farmer Bean

Another weekend on the farm. Nothing terribly exciting this weekend other than finishing her Halloween Costume and just stuff on the farm, so here's some pictures:

I think I missed this one last week, Bean sporting her new IH shirt with her skirt!



Her new fall/winter boots, they're Crocs and she loves them!


Susan put this on Bean's Halloween Treat bag:





This is the picture we found online for the idea for Mallory's costume:



This was step 1 yesterday, get the ghost tutu done:



Today Susan added the face. I think it looks just as good or better than the one online!



Meet Mallory, corn inspector/grader!

















Sunday we all helped dad put in some waterways. Bob went off road! Bean was good while we worked!



First ever ride on a 4 wheeler with Grandpa:




Got to see Memaw:


And did more playing on the deck and using the table as a jungle gym:









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Fall!

Sorry for not posting this sooner, I had most of it done on Monday night or Tuesday but I was having some problems with some pictures, so I'll just add more to it!

Yay!  The temps seem to indicate fall is upon us!

We've both been running around like crazy, busy with work and Little Miss Bean continues to make good strides in Walking.  Tomorrow she will be 18 months old (OMG) and she is walking more than crawling, but she's still a speedy little crawler and does use that skill when speed is what she's going for!

This weekend was more corn harvest!  They actually finished up today, so then we move onto soybeans!  Harvest sometimes seems never-ending, but it's my favorite time of the year

Ben's spent most of Friday in the combine, so Mallory and I headed down to Elkton after work.  Quickly threw our clothes together, grabbed Tucker and headed south.

Saturday was Harvest Fest in Elkton, and although as a kid "fall festival" seemed really cool, we even had a parade, Harvest Fest is fine, but there's really not much to it.  Some mediocre crafts, other crap, a couple food vendors and some other odds and ends, but it's something to do and see.  But there's also some good photo ops at Harvest Fest, so here's a few of those:

Ben's parents rolled into town around lunch time, so we got the guys some steak sandwiches at the Harvest Fest and then took them lunch to the farm.  After that we headed to Fairview to the Mennonite Nursery and look at their pumpkins.  Here's some pictures of that:

Saturday afternoon was pretty uneventful.  We waited for the guys to get done with the corn for the day and had dinner and then we trekked back to Owensboro then Ben went down to Elkton again Sunday morning to run the combine and the rest of us went to church, out to lunch, a quick run to TJ Maxx and then Bud and Susan headed back to Sikeson.

We found this super cute dress and coat for Bean at TJ Maxx that Susan got for her for her Christmas Dress:

Friday they opened the Blue Bridge (goes across the OH river from KY to IN) for pedestrians.  It had been closed for 3 months for repairs and they finished 4 days early, so before they opened it for cars at 6:30 pm on Friday, they let people walk or bike across it from 8 am to 6 pm, so at lunch I went down to walk across it.  Great weather for it!

Sunday after Susan and Bud headed back to Sikeston, I got domestic.  Well, about as domestic as I seem to get! 

Bean and I ran up to Trunnel's and got some apples and came back and made an apple pie, some broccoli and cheese soup and beer bread.  It was all pretty yummy and with my new Autumn smelling Wood Wick candle, it was very "fallish" in the house!

Since I'm so delayed in getting this posted, I'll just go on and throw in last nights adventure.  The three of us headed over to Evansville for their Fall Festival....which is basically 150 food booths that is a huge fundraiser for local things like the Animal Shelter, Fraternity's, Local Churches, Band Boosters, you name it, they are there.  And most specialize in one or two "intersting" treats.

This was Mallory's first year, too many people for her to be out last year, but she loved all the people watching and she was dancing in her stroller to all the music.

This year we had the following:

Chicken and Dumplings by one of the Lutheran churches....not sure why but Lutheran woman must posses some gene to make the best chicken and dumplings!
Puppy Chow (that chex cereal with chocolate and powdered sugar)
A combo plate of fried green tomatoes, friend green beans and fried mac and cheese
cream puffs
dippin dots
Ben got a hamburger that instead of a bun was on a Donut Bank glazed donut
corn dog
frozen chocolate banana on a stick, my fav

That's all that's coming to mind at the moment....here's some pictures of our delightful treats!