Family Fun Day!

It's not often that we are able to go do things as a family with my work schedule. So, K.C. took yesterday off and we crammed a ton of things into the day.

First up was dressing the girls in the dresses I bought them and then taking them to our favorite park to take pictures. I don't know what it is about these dresses but as soon as I saw them I knew that I had to take them to the park and put them in this great old tree trunk and take pictures. It's just too bad that it was cold outside! Sydney was freezing but both of them were good sports. I got great video of them feeding the ducks and 'dancing' in the meadow like the little fairies they are. Look for that footage on the Year In Review DVD. I had a hard time picking just two pictures to post but opted for ones that I envisioned when I first saw the dresses hanging on the rack:

This is probably my favorite of the day but when I zoom in to view it closer, the girls are all blurry so that really sucks!


Poor Sydney was so cold she couldn't move! Look at that view behind them though! That is Lake Wilderness.


After a stop at home for lunch and a shower (for me) we headed to a local farm to pick a couple of pumpkins. This was the very first trip for all of us to a pumpkin patch! It was a lot of fun and we highly recommend this great family farm - http://www.thomassonfamilyfarm.com/.

We took a hayride, 'milked' a wooden cow, drove a tractor, rode some wooden horses, slid down a hill, went through a small corn maze, played with bubbles, raced rubber ducks, played in a corn box, rode some John Deer tricycles around a track, slide down a haystack, pet a miniature horse & donkey, cows, pigs, goats, rabbits and kittens and, finally, picked out two perfect pumpkins for our perfect little pumpkins! As I mentioned in an earlier post, I took so many pictures and so much video before the pumpkin picking that my battery died so I don't have any pictures/video of the actual picking of the pumpkins. That's okay, that part wasn't as fun as the other stuff anyway!

Here are a few pictures from the farm:

At the top of the corn box - after walking through it and climbing up on the hay, we slid down into it. We all got corn in places where corn really shouldn't go! I love Quinn's little leg kick in this picture.


Quinn & Sydney 'driving' the tractor.


Milking the cow.

And our self portrait on the hay ride.

It was a fun day and we all slept really well after being out and about in the fresh fall air! We didn't get around to putting up Halloween decorations this year. I know, there's still time and if I really wanted to I could. But, I'm not real excited about putting them up for a week and then taking them right back down so we'll just wait until next year!