Craft Day

Well, this weekend was pretty boring, to be honest. Garry came home on Saturday but we didn't really do anything on Saturday or on Sunday. Jackson was absolutely WILD all day today, so I decided that we needed to do some crafts to keep him busy. The first thing we did was a Fall fingerprint tree. It was a lot of fun and Jack loved choosing where to put the different colors! 

I can't wait to frame it and put it somewhere that I can see it all of the time! I found the tree as a free printable online and I went into Photoshop and added the word "thankful". I think it turned out so cute!

After we did the tree, we were still not finished crafting, so I let Jack choose our next project. He chose to make a halloween pendant banner! Thankfully, I have a bunch of scrapbook and construction paper laying around and we had all of the colors we needed. Jack did the gluing and I did the cutting and coloring. Our banner has an owl, candy corn, werewolf, pumpkin, cat and "franken". Jack said that his favorite is the cat and I just can't choose my favorite! We are going to have to find somewhere fun to hang it where we can see it all of the time. Maybe we can hang it in the livingroom somewhere.

So, this happened a few days ago. While I was finishing unpacking my room, Jack was writing a letter to a friend at school. I thought that he was just "writing" until I saw this:

"JACKSON CONN AND ADDSEN LOVE HAPY FACE"

He wrote, with NO help, exactly what he wanted to say to his friend! Holy moly, that surprised me. I mean, he just turned five years old and he is already writing notes. I had to ask him if this little girl was a friend or a "girlfriend" and he said that she is just a nice friend. Whew....he is growing up so fast.

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OH OH! I forgot! We watched "The Avengers" tonight and I laughed myself silly when this happened:

God only knows that if I were to be an Avenger, I would be The Hulk.

MELISSA ANGRY! MELISSA SMASH!

Hitscherhof Farm Festival

Happy First Day of Fall! Fall is my favorite time of year and I am so, so excited to be here in Germany because there is SO much to do. Garry is currently in California, so Jack and I had the day to ourselves and I decided to take him to the Hitscherhof Farm Festival. It was absolutely positively gorgeous and there was so much to do. Jack behaved himself (mostly) and is not filthy dirty and has a haystack in his hair.

 

First of all, Miss Junebug decided to be King when we were leaving the house. It is a good look for her, no?

 

 

So after driving to Landstuhl for gas and back through Bruchmulbach and up the "mountain" down a rather thrilling one and a half lane road with a speed limit of 70km! I have really gotten the hang of driving here but some of these people are pretty brave. The village was just so precious and there were pumpkins absolutely everywhere!

 

We didn't go in the corn maze because I figured it would make Jack mad if we got lost. He did lay in front of the sign though and later told me "I was being Jesus!". I asked him how in the world he was being Jesus and he said that "I was asleep in the hay." Like Away In A Manger. Oh Jack...

 

Dancing on a log

Climbing on big rocks in front of the silo

He insisted on sitting in a tree

House with pumpkins all over

Their garden

My boy

Jack and an Artichoke

Mine! My Big Pumpkin!!!

Oh wait..I had better be sweet or Mom will take me home.

Sitting on the wagon with the BIIIIG pumpkins!

Awwwww! I love this one in color..

And in Black and White!

Some ponies peeped at us from around a building

And Jack found a tractor

Koi pond

My Fluffy with hay in his hair

Peek-A-Boo!

Hmm..maybe I will jump..

Big jump!

Pretty Fall flowers

I love this boy (with his pumpkin)

I had to make this one giant becaue I LOVE it!

Lookig at Bees

Pink flowers

Posing with his Pumpkin

Running on a log. He didn't slow down for long

Posing with sunflowers and his ghost cookie (in the bag)

Part of the village

View of the cars and another village from the top of the hill.

 

 



Apple Picking in Mainz and Ramstein Bazaar

I am the most excited about the apple-picking, so I am just going to start there even though the bazaar came first. I have been wanting to take Jack to pick apples for a couple of years now but it never works out and I was determined this year. Garry leaves for California tomorrow for 2 weeks and I thought that he would enjoy going with us, so we made plans to go today -- perfect timing when it comes to getting ripe apples! We drove to Mainz, which is about 50 minutes away and Garry almost killed us on the Autobahn a few times...apparently my MINI has a few blind spots that his Mustang doesn't have and I have pretty much decided that I probably need to drive from now on. That man wasn't meant to drive a MINI. Anyway, it was a cool, overcast day and we arrive (still breathing) at the orchard, Apfel Happel. It is SO cute! They have it decorated really nicely and it wasn't crowded while we were there. The owner was excited that we were American so that her young teenage daughter could use us to help her practice her English, haha! It was so funny (and made me wish I could speak German). They had samples of each kind of apple that they grow outside so that you can taste each one. Jack and I tasted about four of them and it was incredible how different they where. The one we liked best was the Elstar, so we went to the rows and picked some of those. Jack had so much fun looking through the trees to find the biggest and ripest apples!

Back to Friday. Jack did NOT want to go to school and he gave me absolute hell about getting out of the house. At one point, I accidentally called his jacket a "sweater" and he went nuts because he didn't want to wear a sweater. I explained that I accidentally said the wrong word but it was too late. He fell to the ground, closed his eyes and stuck out his tongue, declaring "I am dead now." You can believe that I didn't have time for that mess, so I threatened to make him for-real dead if he didn't get his booty up and get to the car STAT! We ended up compromising by letting him wear a different jacket but I was not optimistic about his behavior. When I went to pick him up, his teacher said he actually did great except for one little incident. They were on the playground and Jack told her that he didn't have to line up to come inside because he "is King of the Castle"! She said "I guess I will just have to take a sticker away, your majesty" and he jumped right in line, haha. She knows how to handle him!

After school, we went to the bazaar on Ramstein. They had all kinds of German vendors there, filling two hangars with stuff! Jack got a bubble gun, Garry bought a cowboy hat (yes really, lol) and I got an adorable little Polish nativity scene!

I have to add in one Jack-ism. When he gets irritated about something, he has started yelling "I WANT A REFUND!"

*in line at Burger King* "I want to go home to Bruchmulbach! I WANT A REFUND!"

*sitting too long in the car* "I WANT A REFUND! I have to pee!"

It is so funny when he does it. I never know what this child will say.