The Butcher family has been tagged

The rules of the tag are as follows:
1.Post the rules on your blog.
2.Write six random things about yourself.
3.Tag six people at the end of your post.
4. If you are tagged, JUST DO IT, and pass the tag along.


Our good friends Patricia and Jamil tagged us for this fun little task. Theirs was quite humorous, so I think I'll enjoy coming up with some random thoughts here...

Random Things about Jonathan and me:

1) When Jonathan was younger, he would save wrapped Christmas presents for MONTHS before opening them. This still re-surfaces when he delays opening birthday or Christmas presents until I threaten to take them back because he enjoys knowing he still has a present to unwrap.

2) Cheez-its have replaced french fries as my favorite food. What can I say? I have upscale taste. Well... unless they are Chili's french fries. Then all bets are off.

3) Jonathan frequently gets song lyrics messed up. Which he doesn't realize till he's singing his own version of a song and I bust him on it, while laughing my head off.

4) I am a huge flake on occassion. One time, I was returning a movie to Blockbuster (at the same time as renting out another so I had to return it at the counter). And as I approached the Bbuster employee I said, "I have a movie to return, too, and I'm pretty sure there is a late fee." So he took my little Blockbuster card to check my account ID and said, "Christine?" and I said, "Noooooooo... we didn't rent that movie." (it took a good 30 seconds for me to figure out he was asking ME if I was the Christine listed on the account - my sister was with me and nearly peed her pants)

5) Jonathan busted his shoulder last year playing flag football with some friends in Charleston (he's adamant it was an actual flag football league) and now he can't swim. Until he has surgery on said shoulder.

6) I'm basically afraid of cats. They scare me and I think they have unnatural powers of cognition.

Now I'm supposed to tag 6 people... which, again, is basically impossible for me to do because I don't think there are six more people out there that read this blog AND blog themselves. So EMILIE - you're up :) Pass on the fun!

The Glory of Fall

Today we spent the late afternoon at Grisamore Farm in Locke, NY. It's about a 35 minute drive north of Ithaca and they have numerous fall family fun activities to partake in... and seeing as the fall weather has settled upon us, we decided we had to go. The above picture is my favorite of the day, as it also appears to be the only one I got in focus. But I LOVE the orange pop against the mud ground - no photoshopping whatsoever! The following pics are of the kids and our couple hours at the farm. They had a ton of farm animals which both the kids thoroughly enjoyed heckling, but we didn't catch any pictures of that.

Maggie meets and instantly befriends a beagle puppy named... Maggie! It was love at first site.

Jack thought little beagle Maggie was a riot.

Mags talking to her new friend.

The kids on their wagon ride.

Jack picking out his pumpkin.

(If only this picture were in focus)... Maggie posing with her pumpkin.

Jack amongst fellow pumpkins.

Kids wondering why Mommy has lagged so far behind to snap a pic of their sweet Daddy pulling them along.