Sunday, October 18, 2009

A Day in the Park.....

4 of my 5 kids (including the son-in-law) have birthdays within 6 weeks of each other.  We usually have a big picnic to celebrate them all.  We cook LOTS of food, decorate with lots of pumpkins and other fall decorations and invite a lot of their friends.  This year, with the new boys at the house, we thought it might be better to skip it this year and wait until Nelson has grown out of the puppy stage!

So instead, we decided to go to Kings Mountain State Park which is located on the opposite end of the county from where we live.  It was really miserable out as far as weather goes but we had a good time anyway.  We took a lot of pictures but here is the best of them all.

 

The Wild One, TurfBoy, Dear Hubby, me, Computer Geek, and The Married One

There are some other really good pictures that The Married One took but she hasn't emailed them to me yet. Her significant other took this picture.

Then after a quick trip to two different pumpkin patches, we headed back to the house and LOTS of food with some football thrown in.  We are a big football family so it killed them to leave the house and miss the 12:00 games.  But I made up for it with all the food I had cooked ahead of time!

Some more pictures of the day.....




 

 



 

And finally......... all my boys!






Blessings, Cathi

6 comments:

Janene said...

That sounds like a perfect day!
Your family looks great...so happy to all be together!
And this is a wonderful family tradition you have set up!

Linda - Behind My Red Door said...

What a wonderful way to spend some time together and make some lifelong memories!!

Teresa said...

Great pictures, and Happy Birthday to all and to all a Goodnight!

Anonymous said...

It's wonderful that all of you are able to get together for this celebration! What a blessing!

Lynn said...

What a fun day it looks like - but yikes - it looks cold!

Carrie P. said...

Looks a little chilly but it looks like it didn't stop you all from enjoying each others company.
Hey I think it is good to have at least one computer geek in the family. lol