Caught in the rain: a cautionary tale

Yesterday late in the afternoon Jackson begged to go to the park. It was gloomy and mildly cold, but I said yes anyway cuz we'd been cooped up for the last few days. We got the stroller out and started to walk when I had a feeling I should bring the umbrella along just in case. We made it to the park, and started swinging when I noticed it started to rain. Uh oh. Panic. "Hurry Jackson to the stroller" I shouted. We made it there just in time to get under the umbrella and figure out what to do next. It was raining to hard to stay, and it was gonna be a long walk home, but I said "let's go before we get too wet, and I'll let you hold the umbrella."
Well little did I know, a freak storm was on its way. We no sooner had left the park them a huge storm hit us full fledged. Winds whipping and swirling, rain pelting, thunder clapping and me running as fast as I could to get us home while leaves pelted me in the face, and rain soaked my clothes!
It was so windy Jackson couldn't hold the umbrella any longer! It was about to fold in on itself. So I closed it only to find the wind whipping harder, the rain pouring harder and the storm raging!
I never ran/jogged so quickly and with as much fervency as I did yesterday. We safely made it back to the house, after much crying from Jackson because the wind was blowing his jacket off his head and soaking him to the core. Here's some before and after photos:
Here we just made it to the park and started playing
Jackson picked me a rose when we got there, so I put it in my hair, and he exclaimed "mommy you pretty"

Next you'll see we are hiding with our hoodies on under the umbrella...


Jackson was so excited he had to wave to the camera. He likes rain a lot more than I do!
I did not get any more photos after this one because it was pouring and I couldn't take my phone out of my pocket without soaking it!
And that's the story of how we got caught in the rain!!

October is here!

So for a while I have wanted to take cake decorating classes. Michaels had the class on sale for $10 which I totally couldn't pass up. I have been to 2 classes so far, and here's the cake I made on Friday for class



It's not perfect, and i don't claim to be amazing, but for being my first time doing some of the techniques I'd say its pretty darn awesome:)
I also made these fun Halloween treats this last week. Mummy Oreo pops:) cute huh? They will surely brighten up someone's day.
Then on Saturday we took jax out to the corn maze again, this time during the day. Its definitely October here and a chill is in the air. Even though our trip got rained out, we had a fun time for the hour or so we were there. We picked out a sweet pumpkin from the pumpkin patch and we took our picture with this huge wooper! It was like 300lbs!

And last but not least, our friends Derek and Bree had their baby last week and Danny and I got to go visit them in the hospital. His name is Nathan, he has a ton of hair, and he's just the sweetest baby I ever saw (besides Jackson of course;))

The end!

Cornbelly's corn maze

On Friday night, Danny, Jackson and I all went to Thanksgiving Pointe and went to the corn maze. This year they had a special going on, so we bought a season pass. Friday was opening day. We had so much fun!
First we climbed up a giant rocking chair:



Yay he made it. And so did daddy!
Next we pretended we were a corn on the cob,
We went down slides...

Played in airplanes and tractors..


Got stuck in a spider web:
And went on a hayride.
We played and got lost in a corn maze, and we wouldn't have made it out if it hasn't been for Danny;)


Right before we went home Jackson played in a little playhouse full of corn kernels!! He thought it was the coolest thing ever!!



The end:)