Pumpkin's Patch

October is my FAVORITE month! It starts to get cool and brisk, you get to pull out your sweaters and coats. The leaves changing colours and the world is just gorgeous! Plus, we're rapidly approaching Evey's first Halloween - which is one of my favorite holidays! Who doesn't have fun dressing up as something completely random and going door to door to get candy??? I wish adults could trick-or-treat, but now... we've got the golden ticket!

Evey already has costumes for her first few years and two for this year. I'm so looking forward to her costume parade at daycare on the 31st and will be scheduling myself random hours at work so I can be there!

Something else I've been looking forward to is our first trip to the pumpkin patch. I haven't been in years, but when I was little, we went every year and I loved picking out my own pumpkin. Maybe these memories were so great for me because my parents called me "pumpkin". Ali was always the "princess" but I loved my nickname. As I grew up, obviously outgrew the nickname but my love for fall is permanently engrained.

Several years ago, we started a family tradition of going to Baldwin Farms in Richmond to get Christmas Trees. Last year, on November 27th, we made the nauseating trip across the river, brought back a Christmas Tree and found out we were pregnant! Baldwin Farms holds so many great memories for us, so we decided that would be the perfect spot to take our girl. It's definitely the time to start some family traditions of our own. I want Evey to have some wonderful memories to take with her so someday (a million years down the road) when she takes her daughter to the pumpkin patch for the first time, she can be nostalgic with the best of them!

We had a relaxing morning and then made our way to the farm. When we got there, I moby'd Evey up and we found a nice shady spot to have a picnic. We expected the weather to be on the cool/warmish side, but it was HOT!

 

 

My mom found the cutest book. If you know my mom, you know that she's 100% bargain shopper. She doesn't buy anything if it's not on sale - but she had to have this book! It goes through all these foods and the art is adorable. In the end it says "I could just gobble you up!" I love it and mom loves reading it to Evey. Evey just stares at the pictures. The reason she had to have it and actually paid full price for it is demonstrated in the picture above. I was her pumpkin and Evey is her sweet pea!

We enjoyed our picnic out beside the pumpkins. We had roast beef sandwiches and even Evey got to enjoy her lunch! Ali and Christopher looked for the biggest pumpkins and we had the whole patch to ourselves because it was down in a little valley and just a little bit harder to get to, but we didn't mind it!

 

Something I've never thought about is how open a pumpkin patch is... but if you think about it - where would you put a tree if you're growing a lot of pumpkins? Evey HATED being in that direct sunlight and she just screamed and screamed. I felt so bad and just walking across the patch to get to the other side seemed as though it took forever. At least this time I remembered the sunscreen! Once we got over, my mom took Evey back to the shade and I went back in to find my pumpkin.

I had dressed Evey up so cute for our pumpkin search, but it was so hot we had to strip her down a little to make her more comfortable. Even though she's just in her onesie, she still looks adorable. I ask Christopher all the time where she got her looks from. I tell him that we don't add up to her level of cuteness!

I think Evey was the only one not having fun picking pumpkins. October shouldn't be so hot. Just saying.

It was an awesome day and Evey finally fell fast asleep. When we got home, we gave her a bath to cool her off and changed her clothes. Christopher and I decided to go on a date. Mom and dad took Evey to church with them and we wore her out so much that she slept the entire time. We went to the movies and when it was over, we called to see how she was doing. She was still asleep and was down for the night. I hated to get her off of her schedule, so we decided to let her spend the night at her grandparent's house. It was her first night away from home and even though Christopher and I had a great date, I missed her desperately. I woke up a couple of times because I "heard her crying" and we slept with her humidifier on, the iPod playing in her room and the monitor on so that it wouldn't be so out-of-the-ordinary.

Since we decided last minute that she was spending the night, we didn't have enough milk prepped to feed her in the morning. Christopher was racing on Sunday, so we woke up early and I made my way down to Nicholasville so I could feed her by 5:30am. Of course, when I showed up Evey decided she wanted to sleep until almost 9. Oh, my amazing little squirt. I was already wide awake, so needless to say I got a lot done that morning.

We spent the entire day at my parents house and dad made waffles. Overall, it was such a great weekend and our pumpkins are HUGE!