Lately Ian has been listening to A LOT of Dave Ramsey stuff. I'd heard of him before and knew some basic principles, but money has never been a struggle for us so I never thought to look into him. Well after a while Ian decided that we are doing well but we could be doing better! So we got in touch with a financial planner who, as it turns out, we really liked! We set up a few things with him and also looked into the future and made a goal of paying off our house in 5 years. Along with that came keeping much better track of our budgets so each month we sit down at the beginning of the month and look at events we might have and how much the will cost. Well we looked at October and remembered that we've always gone to
Niederman Farm because that place is awesome and the kids still remember it from previous years so we want to have that tradition. But knowing our fun budget and putting that together with it costing at least $50 for us to go there we weren't sure what we wanted to do...
Lately I've been telling God that I want to honor this goal of paying off the house and if this is his plan it would be awesome if he could show up in it. Well the next day after chatting about our month I got an email from our agency saying that
Warm Welcomes was holding an event at Niederman Farm and any foster home was invited to bring the whole family, have dinner and dessert, and get a free pumpkin! Yes please! This organization did a great job organizing the event and we had a lot of fun and God provided even more than we asked!
There was an entire farm full of activities and my kids pick the barn full of corn and trucks:
Pretty accurately depicts their personalities:
If you need a fun family tradition make it this! These pictures do not do justice to all the great things there are to do here!
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