Pumpkin Patch 2013

This last Saturday we decided to take in some fall festivities and started out the day taking the kids out to the base to paint pumpkins and then continued on to the Avila Valley Farm to the pumpkin patch! The kids had a great time letting their creative sides out, Henry, who is not an artist, painted his whole pumpkin (this is unprecedented) and Lillie did a cute purple and black pumpkin.  And better that someone else clean up the mess than me, am I right?!? Then we kept the good times rolling by heading to the pumpkin patch. We went through the farm animals as per tradition before the kids and Eric braved the hay maze. It was CRAZY BUSY at the farm, so we passed on pony rides and tractor hay rides, because the lines were incredibly long. So I picked the shortest line, or so I thought, and waited to get us ice cream and olalaberry cobbler. I waited in line a good 45 minutes to find out that they were out of cobbler (BOO!) and after giving Lillie her ice cream she promptly dropped it in the dirt. But I managed to scrape most of the dirt off and we enjoyed the rest of our time there. The weather was perfect and it is such a fun place, I shouldn't have been surprised that everyone on the central coast was there that day. Unfortunately, Henry came down with the stomach flu that evening once we were home, which was too bad, poor little guy. Sunday morning, though, he was back to his goofy, wild self. I'm so glad that, even though going out in public and standing for longer periods of time, was the last thing a 37.5 week pregnant woman wanted to do, I still did it and soldiered through the crowds to make memories with our kids. This is normally my favorite time of year and I don't want them to miss out. Good times.