the one with a weekend recap

This past weekend was fun and busy. Those two words do not always go hand in hand as sometimes too busy means over stimulation for Tori which means meltdown which means parents who are sweating and cranky and ready to do anything to get home and away from any public madness.
Saturday started with a morning at Corn Cob Acres for Colin's third birthday. I take Tori once a fall season and she loves it. It is not cheap but there are enough things to do that keeps her busy for hours and if you go early enough, you aren't waiting in lines. Tori woke up with some allergy issues so we really thought she would only last 20 min but she got distracted quickly. Tori had fun climbing (on anything and everything because she is a monkey), getting on the hayride and the tractor ride.. going up hay and down slides.. enjoying/scarfing down a hot dog, goldfish and donuts (rather than cake-birthday boys request haha). We ended up getting asked shortly after if we wanted to go see a movie, Sicario.. btw- it was awesome. Go see it! So in between getting rdy for that we were trying to eat dinner, I was helping my dearest neighbor girl get ready for her first homecoming (tears!).. and trying to get Tori ready to go to her grandmas while we were at the movie. None of this was an easy task but somehow we managed. After the movie the night ended with Tori being put to sleep and Chris and Mad coming over for drinks and politics talk. FUN FUN FUN. (sarcasm lol).
Sunday we crash cleaned the house as we were having friends over to carve pumpkins. I am currently pregnant enough that I am getting left out of plans and honestly-pregnant enough that I probably wouldn't go anyways. I feel huge and don't like wearing pants. Apparently not wearing pants in public is frowned upon. So anywho- back to the point: I invited our friends over for day drinks/pumpkin carving/snacks. Before everyone came over we made a very fun trip to Costco (lol).. where I discovered their pizza is delicious and me, Dan and Tori can eat lunch there, complete with drinks for less than $7.00. WIN!
We had brie cheese complete with my home made apple butter, pretzels and dip, pumpkin creamcheese cupcakes and wings to snack on while everyone was there and since the rain dampered our outside pumpkin carving plans we took shifts carving pumpkins in our sunroom which worked out perfectly. The ladies went first and then the guys. Football was playing, Fall beers were drank, snacks were ate, Tori was played with, laughter happened, baby talk happened, it was a really great day.