Fish and S'mores

We headed to South Mountain State Park for family camping this weekend.  We made it just before it got dark on Friday night.  There was fishing, hammocking and s'moring. 

      

We saw deer on our way in!

     

       

    

    

     

    

    

     

The Schneiders had one campsite with us and Alex's parents had the other.

    

     

    

Fly fishing!  Grandad caught a couple fish and Ethan was able to reel one in!

    

    

    

   

    

    

    

    

     

     

We had lunch back at the campsite. 

      

The kids played in the hammocks for a while then went on a nature walk for a couple hours.  I slept the entire time they were gone.

    

   

     

I always love s'mores!

    

    

       

       

We went straight from camping to Harper's soccer game.  Harper scored a goal!!

Love and Mazes

The kids had another teacher work day this week, surprise, surprise.  Alex took them to the Curling Club to scrape the ice.  The kids love doing this because they get to play in the "snow".  After they finished with the ice, they headed to Matthews to spend time with cousins.

    

Harper had a soccer game early afternoon on Saturday.  It was their first big loss, but Harper had an amazing game.  It is so fun to watch her play!  We had to run off the field as soon as the game was finished to make it to Kaylyn and Collin's wedding up past Winston Salem.  We changed in the car and made it just in time!  The wedding was beautiful and it was such a treat to see the Regans, even if just for the night.  We all had a blast!

      

We drove back to Charlotte after the wedding as we had plans for a pumpkin patch and corn maze on Sunday.  We met the Brooks family at Hall Family Farm for some fall fun.  We did a pirate themed corn maze complete with nine different puzzles.  We had to complete the puzzles in order to solve a mystery and win a prize.  The kids did great!  Our prize was strawberry slushes.  They were delicious!  After the corn maze, the kids did a zip line course then we headed home, exhausted from our weekend.  We actually ran out of time to pick out a pumpkin.

        

Playing in the snow!

     

Cousin time!

      

    

Kaylyn looked beautiful!!

     

         

We could see Pilot Mountain during the ceremony. 

     

     

    

    

     

    

      

     

    

    

    

        

   

    

   

    

    

    

   

   

I always love wedding speeches! 

    

     

     

      

        

A lot of my photos are blurry, but we were having fun!

   

       

We all danced!

    

    

   

    

    

   

    

There was a photo booth that would take photos and print them for you.  The kids spent a lot of time doing this.

      

    

   

   

       

    

    

    

    

    

           

We always do an All My Life's A Circle dance at Regan weddings to end the night.

   

   

    

   

   

   

   

   

   

     

   

Halloween gifts from Gigi and Poppy!

       

   

    

   

     

She didn't even make it up the stairs with her new book.

      

Our first stop at Hall Family Farm was the coffee cottage for some lattes and cider. 

   

     

    

   

The corn maze was awesome!

   

   

   

      

We had to find the puzzles and then complete them in order to solve the mystery.

   

   

    

        

I believe the fastest someone solved the mystery was forty minutes.  We were in there for nearly two hours!

      

We did get distracted by corn fights.

   

     

     

       

We did get a little turned around and needed a spot.

    

    

    

    

     

The kids enjoyed the zip line course.