Green Ash

When we first moved into our house, the tree that had been planted in our front island died. We quickly replaced it with a Magnolia, it died. Then we got a Maple tree, it died. Finally when I was just about ready to give up having a tree in our front island all together, Home Depot put all of their trees on Clearance for fall/ winter. I found a tree called Green Ash, the description said that it was drought tolerant, and would grow in nearly any soil. It cost $4.97 and had a one year warranty. I bought the tree. It quickly adapted to our yard and shot up. It is taller than nearly everyone else's trees and was planted much later than most. It is a happy tree, plus during the spring and summer it blocks me from seeing my neighbor's house across the street :) This year when the tree began to change 2-3 weeks ago, it looked beautiful, especially with my yellow lantana still in bloom.

No matter how hard I think about this next part, I can not for the life of me figure it out. But as soon as the leaves began falling from the Green Ash, Micah said "The leaves are falling that mean Halloween is almost here." Halloween is by far not one of the most celebrated things at our home. We don't go trick or treating (we'll go to the church) So I'm not sure what made him even think this. Anyway every morning when Micah wakes up first he asks me, "Is the ice cream bus coming today?" Then he asks what the day is and if he's going to school. For the last couple of weeks every day Micah has commented on the tree and told me that Halloween is coming because the leaves are nearly gone. Stacy and I just laughed it off until yesterday. This is what we saw!!

There is one lone leaf left on this tree. Take a real close look and you'll see it at the top. Needless to say, as soon as there was daylight outside this morning, I looked at that tree.... Yep, you guessed it, NO LEAVES!! It is CRAZY! Just thought I'd share :)

Halloween Party

At registration dear Mrs. Scott asked me to be a room mom. I have NO problem with that. One other girl signed up, so I knew that I wouldn't have to do everything myself. I kept thinking how much I wish I could help plan the party, but also be a bystander who gets to take pictures of all of the fun. Next time I'll have to bring some extra hands and eyes :) This morning was our very first parent planned party. We had several crafts, games, food, and the kids even got to decorate sugar cookies. We had a great turn out as far as parents go and everyone had a lot of fun. I only got a little stressed, okay, I hardly have any finger nails left. I said that my craft would be picture frames. I planned on ordering some really cute ones from Oriental Trading for $.50 a piece, with FREE shipping, but by the time the party was actually planned and I went to order the frames, I would have had to pay $30 to get them here in time for the party!!! Needless to say, the pictures have already been taken, I STILL am in charge of picture frames. Hmmmm I went to Hobby Lobby, one of my favorites, and left with NOTHING. Went to Michael's and ended up buying $1 frames, and some foam sticker to decorate them with. The price came to like $1.50 a person! That's a lot when we only requested $5 total per per for Everything. So I came up with a new idea. Popsicle sticks and the foam stickers....they turned out really cute believe it or not. We had a whole lot of fun! I am sad that I didn't get pictures of the actual party taking place, maybe another mom will be willing to share. I met some really nice people today, I just LOVE Micah's class! Here are a couple of pics of My little Monkey.... BTW apparently I missed out, Spider Man is the thing to be this year....there were 3 in his class, including a girl :) Maybe next year he'll have a choice :)

Our Pictures are up!!

Take a look at this the password is robinson. Tell me what you think! Again, I LOVE Christy Martin!!

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School Pumpkin Patch

We took our second trip to the Pumpkin Patch today. Micah's class went on a nice long hayride back behind the school. The girls who work at the school and their husbands spent ALL day Saturday preparing for the hayride. Saturday was SO cold and rainy, poor Mrs. Scott lost her voice. The hayride was by far the best hayride I've ever been on. It lasted about 20- 30 minutes and they had so many neat things to look at. There were scarecrows having tea parties, sking, fishing, working, you name it, (way too much for me to remember) there were live scarecrows and even a barber shop and a Waffle House. Mrs. Kathy worked at Babyland General and even delivered a baby while we were there.
After we finished the hayride we got to go to the Pumpkin Patch to choose a pumpkin. Micah was more interested in running around and playing after being on the trailer for so long, but we still picked a real nice pumpkin. Maybe Stacy and Micah will carve it :) Note: Micah loves to talk about the little girl in this pic. Her name is Maggie and on our way home today I told him that I like Maggie and think she's cute. Micah said "I like Maggie too. Can we have a Maggie at home?"

Pumpkin Patch Trip #1

Last Friday it was SO nice during the morning that I decided to invite the Fam to Washington Farms. Our family has gone every year since Micah was born. Sometimes it it SO hot, sometimes it's comfortable, but this year it was nice during the day and was COLD in the afternoon and at night. This year Daph and her whole clan minus Cary got to come. Daddy came along with Mama this year, and Martha and Hannah came too! Nut and Jerms already had plans so they had to miss out, we'll probably go back since this trip got cut short due to time and temperature. We had so much fun. Look how tall Micah is!!
Daph and Fam
Goat Petting
Chicken chasing
Cow train
Scarecrow loving

Cornbox

Hayride

Man it sure is cold!!

3 year/ Fall pics

Everyone who knows me knows that I love pictures, I love Micah, and I love Christy Martin. I love how kind she is. I love the pictures that she takes, I love all of her ideas for pictures. She is a true photographer! Well we finally set up an appointment last Sunday to have her photograph Micah along with a couple family shots. I Love Christy's work and thought everyone would love to see what a great job she does....take a look at Micah!!