Life With The Shirleys: pumpkins, pumpkins everywhere

Saturday, October 15, 2011

pumpkins, pumpkins everywhere

Today was our 4th annual trip to Burt's Pumpkin Patch. We started early at our house at 7:30 and D made breakfast for everyone. After breakfast, we loaded up and headed about 45 minutes north to go to the pumpkin patch. The weather was perfect. Sunny, clear skies and a little cool. This is our 4th year in a row going and we now have it down to a science. We get there as soon as they open, get in line to buy the hayride tickets, ride the hayride, pick out pumpkins, pay for the pumpkins, load the pumpkins in the car, go back into farm and have a blast. We avoid all lines and by the time the farm is getting really crowded, we have done everything, paid and already taken 250 pictures.

We were done at the farm a little after 10:00 so we headed back home and all went to lunch together. Thankfully we do this trip as a family because when we attempted to leave the farm, our car battery was dead. A quick jumpstart from J and Meega and we were on our way. We had to get jumped off again after lunch and ended up at the AutoZone to buy a new car battery.

We were home before 1:00 and all exhausted. Everyone took naps and after naps, we went Halloween costume shopping. The Mayor will be Lightning McQueen's driver for Halloween...he is absolutely precious in it. Still need to find Love Bug's...but she should be pretty easy. We are thinking Minnie Mouse.

After shopping, we came home and lit a fire in our new fire pit. It still isn't complete but it was done enough for us to sit around it, roast marshmallows and eat s'mores. The kids had an absolute blast. They were excited to be outside while it was dark, sitting in front of a cool fire and eating chocolate, marshmallows and crackers. Pretty much a dream come true for a 4 year old and 19 month old.

Looking forward to another gorgeous day tomorrow and a week that promises sunny and clear skies and fall like temps. Perfect.