Fall is FINALLY Here!

I have been dreaming a lot lately bout fall, and the nice cool weather that accompanies it. I was so excited to finally experience some of it this past few days. In fact, yesterday we really experienced it and had a most wonderful time.

The boys and I headed to Ross yesterday morning to look for some new tennis shoes for Sam's ever growing, size 11 feet. Well, we finally found some, as well as many other little things - I have now officially began my Christmas shopping - Yay! (If there is anything special on anybody's Christmas list, you better tell me now or you just might be stuck with some random thing Sam or Seth picks out for you =). Anyhow, on our way
home I called Ad at work just to check on him, and he just happened to be heading home at that very moment as well. Another yay! An extra afternoon to spend together as a family (doesn't really happen so often these days).

So, we bundled up and set out for Fallon - Lattin Farms puts on a Fall Festival every Saturday in October. They have a great corn maze, hay rides, a cow train, build your own scarecrow workshop, and (our fav.) a Pumpkin Patch. We picked out some very amazing pumpkins this year. Sam's is so HUGE, it probably outweighs him by a few pounds at least. I picked out the double pumpkin, I figured it was as close to a pregnant looking pumpkin as I was going to find. I won't really go into what Adam thinks it looks like, but I am guessing you probably have an idea ;)

We also braved the Corn Maze again this year. Last year it was 2 acres and had several solutions; however this year, because it was Fallon's centennial year, it was 3 acres (they had to fit in the Fallon logo and several words) and only had one solution. It started out pretty fun. Sam loved being in charge and telling us which way we ought to go. But Seth lost his binky not too far in and everything went downhill from there. The stroller was too bumpy for him to sit in, he only wanted mommy to carry him, and he cried much of the way through. Carrying him was definitely a workout for me - he is a heavy little kid! Needless to say, Adam had us out in no time at all. It only took us 45 minutes to make it all the way through - I think that might be a record. The staff guys at the end were pretty impressed anyway.

It was nice and cool, though a little windy,and the boys just loved being out where they could run and get all dirty. We were all pretty worn out for the drive home, so we stopped and got some $1 cardboard pizza's (Totino's - Mmm! definitely the best!) and curly fries for a lazy and very late dinner back at home. Overall, it was just a very fun fall day!!!!