What Snew?

Hi,
We are alive.

We had a great Labor Day weekend. We went to a goat and llama farm. The boy told me he loved each and every goat individually. "Mommy, I love that one, and that one and that one and that one..."
and so it went.

The goats really loved his hat. I just love the joy in that first picture. Cousins and goats, can life get better?
Someone most decidedly did NOT like the goat farm, at least not from her seat.

Once I carried her all over she was happy and enjoyed the animals too. I want this goat because it looks like a fawn. I would name it Bambi and love it until it ate something I didn't want it to.

 Also, we experienced a goat-nado. This is when you walk into a pen with seemingly few animals turn around and about thirty goats are following you like a zombie hoard. It was pretty amazing. I took a picture but it's fuzzy. That might make it more zombie goat apocalypse tastic though.

We spent some great time with cousins and we took a trip to pick blackberries. We didn't find any blackberries but we found a tire swing and that's almost as good, maybe better.

I also took my camera off of auto and shot in Manual mode for pretty much the whole weekend. Scary! I was frustrated because I wasn't getting any better and it's like I knew I needed to make that leap and just learn from it, but I was so scared of missing the shots I wouldn't do it.Perfectionist doom! I learned a few things. Probably, duh, things, one being that it's better to underexpose than overexpose. Isn't that true of life in general? If more people underexposed what a world it would be. So, it was scary and I overexposed a lot of great shots, but here's the thing. I have a million pictures of my kids and I will have a million more so I will learn and get better and someday I will be able to say, "Yeah, I know how to use my camera." That will be a great feeling. Plus I got these of doodle and they are making my heart happy...

 I think she wanted the wings back on. Funny story, those were just floating around in the car and the boy found them and gave them to doodle. Happy accidents. He came up and said, "You a butterfly hu?" He's too cute.

 attempted walking

 Hugs!

 My parent's house is busting with apples, if you hadn't noticed apples in almost every picture.

Wanna share?

 There was much playing in the dirt and eating of the dirt and just loving the dirt.

You may be asking yourself, where is Moonpie in all of this. How come she doesn't have very many pictures of him. I've covered this before but I think this sums it up. 

I managed to get a decent one. :)

Hope your weekend was as great!

The end

PS, I am giving up desserts until Thanksgiving. Why Thanksgiving? Well there will be pie and if you know anything about the husbands family, there will be TONS of pie and if there is a pecan pie and there will be, or a lemon pie, and there will be, I will be eating it.  Prayers and love and encouragement accepted. It's day one and I am already thinking this was a huge mistake. Sugar and I have been seeing too much of each other though it's time to take a break and re evaluate the relationship.