The Kirklands: October and all of its Fall fun filled activities! FINALLY!

Well as promised earlier here is my massive October post and photo dump! We kicked the month off with a first ever Family vacation at the beach! Here are some pictures from that week! Warning, LOTS of pictures, not a lot of reading though, so its a fair trade off!

Our First night at the condo!

Vincent and Felicity having fun playing in the tub!

First morning waking up on the beach the kids couldn't wait to go check out the view from the balcony!

Bike ride at the State Park!

Baby Alligator at the State Park!

Crab, stormy caught.

It is hard to tell but that is a baby octopus! Aaron kept finding these balls of seaweed, and they were actually nurseries with all types of tiny baby sea life in them. the octopus was in one the the seaweed balls!

We toured Fort Morgan!

Cooling of by one of the outdoor pools after Fort Morgan Tour!

Felicity is all tuckered out!

This little museum was fascinating! lots of information about Gulf Shores beginnings, and Hurricanes! Never even knew it was here before our Vacay!

Playing at a park after touring the museum!

yes I was sick after this ride! LOL!

Our Sand Castle Fun!

having fun in the indoor pool!

Sand birthday Cake we built for Nana! Later we surprised her and gave her this picture for her birthday!

Sand Castle a Girl from Georgia Built! She let Stormy help with the Village part.

Stormy showing us the village she help build!

Vincent fast asleep on the floor in the condo. about 30 mins before this picture was taken he had walked of the side of the pool into the deep end with no floaties on, then Aaron, who was carrying the baby, fell in trying to pull Vincent out. I was panicking needless to say!

Aaron and the kids playing in a puddle left from where the tide had came in over night. Stormy had ditched us to build sand castle with the lady from Atlanta!

Another Sandcastle a guy from Tennessee built!

I don't know what I was thinking letting Aaron bury me in the sand! LOL! I had a very hard time gettin gout of this!

Stormy took this picture of us! Pretty good shot!

Ghost crabbing on our last night.

We had so much fun that week! I was sad when it ended and so were the kids. in fact our last morning there, when we told the kids we were leaving to go home they started crying! But the Fun didn't end there. Remember my Family fun Friday post that I couldn't tell you what I was doing because it was a surprise! Well I am finally going to tell you what we did! I didn't expect it to take me this long, I wanted to blog about it right away but life got busy and it just has not been on the priority list! Enough about that i will tell you already!, As soon as we left the condo on the beach, we drove home and hurriedly unpacked the car, repacked the car, bathed the dogs and at lunch and then jumped back in the car and drove to Huntsville, were we surprised Aaron's mom at a local Cracker Barrel as a belated birthday present for her! We had not seen her in two years, due to my high risk pregnancy with Felicity, and then them moving. The kids were so excited to see their Nana and Pop Pop Kirkland. We had a blast with them that weekend, The kids always love going to see Nana's animals on their small gentleman's farm. They got to help feed the animals, ride a horse, go on a couple of lengthy bike rides, and spend a fun filled day at a local Farm that had a pumpkin patch and lots of other attractions for the kids! Here are some pictures form our weekend at Nana and Pop Pops.

Surprising Nana at Cracker Barrel for her Birthday, the day after her birthday!

First time meeting Miss Felicity!

Stormy with two of Nana's horses!

View from the Hay Loft looking over the pasture

Helping feed nana's geese!

Vincent helping Feed nana's Alpacas!

View of the house from the hay loft!

going on a bike ride! Pop Pop bought some really nice Bikes for Nana's Birthday!

Fun at a pumpkin patch!

Felicity's first time seeing a horse!

Vincent helping Nana get the horses feed ready!

Checking out the progress on the new house.

We have had bonfires and roasted hot dogs and s'mores more than once, picked pumpkins at Daddy's work, Went to a corn maze and even had a little old Fashioned Halloween costume party! I found some game ideas on line that were from the 1920's and we played those at our party. It was fun and the weather was perfect that night for a Halloween party! We went Trick- or Treating, And had a blast at our Church's Harvest G.L.O.W. Festival. ( GLOW stands for God Lights Our Way) Unfortunately Vincent Took of with Aaron in one direction and me and stormy in the other so I do not have any pictures of Vincent at the festival except for one that I took of him and Stormy at the end of the night. Here are pictures form our Halloween fun!

Trick- or - trink with our home school Club

Home school Club.

People at our Halloween party!

This is my buddy! hahah! If he see this he might get mad at me for posting it! lol he has a mouth full of ice cream for one of our games, and it was cold outside!