We had an exciting time last week. Ellie's preschool class took a field trip to the pumpkin patch and Brian's company had the groundbreaking for their first plant! I also got in a little fender bender, but it wasn't bad. Will slept through the entire thing!
So the pumpkin patch was at this farm only about 10 minutes from our house. They had a lot of animals for the kids to look at and feed. Ellie was a little scared of the large horses, but she enjoyed feeding the goats. We got to ride on a hayride to the pumpkin patch where they were able to walk right out in to the patch and pick their pumpkin off the vine. It was really neat. Will went too, so we only got one pumpkin. I couldn't carry him AND a pumpkin!
Friday was the groundbreaking for the Appomattox BioEnergy Plant. We dr
ove down to Hopewell, VA, which is a little less than an hour away. They had a nice ceremony with people from the community speaking as well as some of the Osage people. Ellie got to meet some of Hopewell's finest police officers. She had fun wearing her honorary policeman sticker the rest of the day! Brian even got his "backside in the paper, " as he put it. You can check it out here. The picture shows Lawrence, John, Brian and Henry. Brian worked with them at Nexsen Pruet. They come up for the big event. After the ceremony they had a luncheon that the kids and I didn't go to. No kids allowed! We made an attempt to go to the park with some of the other kids, but my little fender bender took place in there somewhere. Ellie was at the park though so she got to play while mommy dealt with the car.
ove down to Hopewell, VA, which is a little less than an hour away. They had a nice ceremony with people from the community speaking as well as some of the Osage people. Ellie got to meet some of Hopewell's finest police officers. She had fun wearing her honorary policeman sticker the rest of the day! Brian even got his "backside in the paper, " as he put it. You can check it out here. The picture shows Lawrence, John, Brian and Henry. Brian worked with them at Nexsen Pruet. They come up for the big event. After the ceremony they had a luncheon that the kids and I didn't go to. No kids allowed! We made an attempt to go to the park with some of the other kids, but my little fender bender took place in there somewhere. Ellie was at the park though so she got to play while mommy dealt with the car. Friday afternoon we drove up to see Bonnie and Jason in Charlottesville. I guess that was my first official trip to Charlottesville. We were only there a few hours so maybe next time I'll get to see more of it. Keep Bonnie and Jason in your prayers. They are pregnant with a little girl, Alivia! She is due in February.
We will be heading to Columbia for Halloween, but hopefully I'll have other "exciting" things to write about before then!
