Another fall "must do" activity for our family is our trip to the mountains for a day at the pumpkin patch. We typically have done this during a weekday when Matt has a day off for fall break. Now that Porter is in school, we opted to go on the weekend. The weather was beautiful...perfect some might say. We baked cookies and made sandwiches for our perfect picnic. As it turned out, when we got to the patch, it turns out that about 1000 other people had the same idea (complete with picnics of their own)! We all wanted to drive to the mountains for a wonderful fall outing. We still had fun. We even enjoyed our picnic...just from our car seats...the park was so full of people the park rangers were having to turn cars away before entering the park.
This picture shows you that Dixon has experienced his own growth spurt. He went from wearing 3-6 month summer clothes to these 6-9 fall clothes only for me to realize he is too long for them. I will have to get him into 9-12 month for fall to have the length long enough. In addition, these shoes are from last month....he has already outgrown them! He now has a size 4!More pictures of our fun day in the mountains.
After we finished at the pumpkin patch, we headed to the apple orchards. We found several and chose the one we would visit. We got a 1/2 bushel of perfectly tiny fuji apples for our tiny handed little ones to enjoy. In addition, we bought a bushel of mutzu apples that we 'grade outs' and used them to make several quarts of cinnamon apple sauce.
4 comments:
Holy Cow! Those are some big ole' punkins, Julie!!! Looks like a glorious day with lots of wonderful memories. I know it gets crazy sometimes, but savor these moments. They will be gone before you know it.
those are some HUGE pumpkins!
your boys are such studs!!!! I love the pictures! So cute!
Looks like you guys had a wonderful time. Great pics & a great idea to instill in the boys.
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