Trip to Hershey, PA-part 1

Nana (Layne's mom) and Mamaw (Layne's grandma) came to visit us last week and while they were here we took a trip up to Hershey, PA. It was a lot of fun, but very action packed. We left Wednesday night after Layne got off work and then came home on Saturday night after spending the afternoon at Hershey Park.  So during those three days, we did a ton of stuff! First of all on Thursday, we started off at Chocolate World.  Jayce wasn't too excited about going there because he doesn't like chocolate at all, but he had a good time.  We got to see a 3D movie that the kids loved, go on a tour of the place and see how the chocolate is made and at the end of the tour they give you a piece of chocolate.  Then we left chocolate world and headed over to the outlet shopping center and did a little bit of shopping there.  I had no idea, but in PA there is no sales tax so we decided to do a little bit of Christmas shopping while we were there.  

 On the tour of how chocolate is made. 

 Ryleigh LOVED these cows.  I think she thought they were real.  She waved to them every time she saw them!

 lots and lots of chocolate bars!

 We even went home with some yummy fresh chocolate :) 

Bowles Farm and Corn Maze

WE LOVE FALL!!!!!  One fun new thing that we have been enjoying since living in the north is all the farms and their fun things that have for families.  A couple weekends ago we went over to this farm called Bowles and they had an amazing corn maze!! They make a new one every year and this year they made one honoring the local hospital. They had a little barrel ride for the kids, a small hay maze, corn pit, hay ride around the farm, big huge slide made from plastic black tubing, and a corn maze....oh and food if you wanted to buy food too.  It was a lot of fun and the kids had a great time too.  And the neatest part about it is that it is a family run farm. Love that we are supporting local families.  

  

The previous three pictures were taken with Layne's nice camera....the bottom three were taken with my iphone. So thats why the coloring is different.  But I captured the better smiles by my girl :)

 

 YAY!!! PUMPKINS!!!

  I LOVE HER SMILE!!!!!!

 Feeding the goats was FUN! Ryleigh was more daring than Jayce was. But when he saw that his sister wasn't scared...he didn't want to be scared either :)

 I love these two also!!! They melt my heart! And they are always so dang cute :)

                                                                                        This is the actual picture of the maze that we
                                                                                         went through.  SUPER AWESOME HUH?!

County Fair

The county fair is a big deal here.  The kids get out of school for half a day on Thursday and the entire day on Friday for the county fair.  This year is was warm! So after we went to Jayce's soccer game that morning we headed out to the fair.  The kids always have such a great time.  We got to see all kinds of animals while we were there--rabbits, chickens, roosters, pigs, horses, goats and sheep.  I think I may have mentioned this last year when I blogged about the county fair, but the state sport of Maryland is jousting.  So we got to watch that again for a little while.  We also watched some pig races along with duck races.  It was awesome! The kids loved it. They also loved riding the rides this year.  Last year I didn't venture into that part of the fair because Layne was out of town and I was pregnant, but this year was a new year.  The kids LOVED it! It sure is fun living in a small town.  

 Horses telling each other--I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine :)

 WAHHOOOOO!!!!