Phantom Farms and Farm Day

Two weeks ago, Izzy's class had a field trip to Phantom Farms - an apple orchard. Here's her class.

Riding with mommy behind the tractor to see the apple orchards.

Learning how they press the apples to make cider.

The farm cat.

Playing in the maze.

Last week was Farm Day at school. Zach & Emily enjoyed all the activities on Thursday and Izzy got her turn on Friday. (Yes, Mommy gets to do everything twice this year!)

Here's Z&E's class.

Milking the cow.

Ride 'em cowboy!

Playing with the ducks.

His first pony ride!

Emily's turn!

Face painting. She picked a dinosaur - again. What she always asks for!

Zach went for a baseball - no big surprise there!

Driving the tractor!

Wagon rides.

Decorating pumpkins.

Petting the pig.

A little time on the swings.

Taking a swing an the pinata.

Izzy's turn at Farm Day. She loved riding the pony too!

She stayed in the animal pens almost the whole time!

Red-eyed bunnies.

Visiting the black pig on Izzy's day.

Goats.

Izzy picked a ladybug to have on her face.

Everybody in!

Steve's in PIT TALK magazine!

Jane and Paul's Farm

Our neighbors get us tickets each year to the Farm Day at Jane and Paul's Farm. It's a free event with tractor rides, pumpkin picking, a corn maze and animals to feed. The kids love it - and this year, we brought along 8 other families with us! Everyone had a blast.

Riding on the tractor to the pumpkin patch!

Tractor rides are FUN!

Finding the PERFECT pumpkin. Everyone got to take home one free pumpkin. What a deal!

"Hmmm.... is this one JUST right?"

Izzy found her perfect one.

Getting ready to enter the corn maze.

Navigating our way through.

Steve's boss (Jim) and his family came along. This is his daughter Bianca with Izzy.

Jim's other 2 kids - Angelina and Vinny, with Zach and Emily.

Feeding the goats.

Feeding the chickens.

One very hungry goat!

Izzy's Red Sox Game

We've started a tradition where each kid gets to come alone to a Red Sox game as a special night out with Mom and Dad. Last week, Izzy had her first turn. Most games, Grandpa and Grandpa are there too. Here's all of us at her game. (We had fun, too bad the game was awful.)

Sept 30 - Izzy's special game night.

Yum.... cotton candy.

One happy girl!

With Grandma and Wally (the Green Monster.)

SCCA Runoffs 2009

Last week was the National Championships for SCCA. Melissa's dad won bonus points for flying from Oregon to Mass, then getting off the plane and into a car to help her drive the 3 kids 20 hours to Road America in Elkhart Lake, WI. (Steve flew there and back, so he didn't have to take the extra days off of work.)

Looking out over Elkhart Lake during the welcome party the first night.

Enjoying the hayride.

Flagging Family. End of the day after working Turn 6.

Future SCCA flaggers learning the flags.

Izzy - flagging with style.

Trying to thoroughly confuse the drivers at Turn Alpha/1.

She's black flagging the pace car as it's coming out of pit lane.

Playing with Grandpa Wiens.

Big hugs for Grandpa Introne.

3 generations of SCCA workers.

Hanging out at Turn 14.

Playing in the dirt with their cars up at Turn 7 and 8 while we watched the final qualifying.

After a long, tiring week (and hitting the bottle just a bit too hard), Zach passed out at dinner.