Fall Excursions and Other Fun Stuff In the World's Longest Blog Post With the World's Longest Blog Title Because I Am Wanting To Post All Pictures At Once And Be Done With It.

 Sam is now old enough and earned a father-son date go-kart racing.

The girls got in on some mini go-kart action.  And the tire barriers were never the same again.

We took advantage of some Ninja Turtle action thanks to Groupon and the Parma-Vu drive in.

Dress Like a Pirate Day at Krispy Kreme.

The Booty.

 Noelle's field trip to the Agricultural Fair.  We saw the World's Largest Potato, some baby pigs, chickens, bees, horses, cows, everything.

The bus ride is so choice.

A bike ride to the park with a friend on one of the last nice days of the year.

Okay, here's where we get gratuitous.  I love the pumpkin patch and I love field trips to the pumpkin patch.  This is my last field trip to the pumpkin patch.

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The weather was awful.  Frigid and blustery.  So bad, in fact, that we took cover behind a row of porta potties while we watched a storm blow over a larger-than-the-cornfield, blow-up pumpkin out onto the freeway.

She was the first in line with her teacher.

Congratulations!  When you are old enough to ride a go-kart, you are old enough to mow the lawn.