Farm Country

Since the warm weather is on it's way out for the year, my mother-in-law Julie and I decided to take Griffin to Thanksgiving Point's Farm Country petting zoo.  Griffin was pretty enthralled with the animals at first, but then he decided that they were old news and he wanted to play with all of the fall leaves lying around.  The boy had no fear when it came to getting close to the animals, and he even got licked by a goat!  Mommy was a little more afraid of him being touched by animals than he was :)

 Grandma had been wanting to take Griffin to see Farm Country for awhile, so we decided to go do it during the day since I'm no longer working.  I still don't always remember that I'm able to go do whatever I want now that I don't have my days all planned out!  It was really nice weather and it wasn't busy at all.

Griffin has such a sweet little disposition.  He's always good whenever we go anywhere.  He's content to sit in the stroller and watch the world go by, or he's happy to get up close and personal with anyone or anything new that comes along.  I love that he's never had a hard time being held by new people.  He's not shy at all!  I guess he's not shy with the animals either :)

He loved to play with all the leaves, and wanted to take our stickers from the wagon ride.  He's will not be dissuaded from his leaves to take a picture :)

Happy Fall everyone!  I hope you all had a great one, I know we did!

Thrill-seeking

I wanted to get Tyler the best present ever for his first Father's Day, and I spent a long time agonizing over what it should be.  He had told me that he would like to go skydiving someday, and that made me nervous because I could just see him going "SPLAT" in some field somewhere.  I saw a good deal on a paragliding trip, and I thought that might be better for his first try at extreme sports.  I bought the trip hoping that he would really want to try it, and would think it was a fun idea.

Getting ready to go!

 Tyler LOVED it.  He had such a great time, and he told me he wants me to try it.  Who knows, maybe we will turn into major thrill-seekers. 

 Now the thing I have to worry about is next year's Father's Day.  He asked me what I was going to do to top this gift.  I have no idea - I guess that means I'll have to let him go skydiving?! 

Here's Ty with his flight buddy :)

and for good measure, here we are waiting for Daddy

Ty is such an amazing Daddy to Griffin, and I'm glad he got to go have some fun doing something new and exciting - he deserved it!