We Like to Pick Pick Pick

So as you can probably gather from all our fruit picking posts the kids like to pick fruit. I think we've ended the season with pumpkins. Though we might have to try and hit up another place for a big pumpkin. For some reason out here in the middle of farm country there are no good pumpkin patches. Pumpkins are everywhere put that's just it, you just go to the local farm stand and pick your pumpkin. What kind of photo op is that? Anyway I was hoping Davis Farmland was going to have a great pumpkin patch so I took the kids and it was lame. But the kids got to pick their tiny little sugar pumpkins and it was all good. So here they are!

Picking with the Class

On Wednesday we went on the annual field trip to Tougas Farm to pick more apples and pumpkins. This year both Tyler and Kendall had the same trip on the same day. Tyler of course wanted to hang with his class and Kendall wanted to be with her class. And the teachers preferred each kid stay in their own class. Mommy can only be in one place at a time so I stayed with Kendall since she is younger. But I was bummed because this was the first year I didn't get to take pictures of Tyler with his class, mainly I wanted to take pictures of him picking out his pumpkin because Kendall basically just picked the first one she saw and said "this one" I could see Tyler from a far (he was picking his pumpkin when Kendall's class was still picking apples) and he was really checking them all out. Anyway here we are on our class trip to Tougas:

Apple Picking (very creative title I know)

Today we went Apple picking. I acquaint apple picking with fall so I think I have to grasp the notion that fall is here and summer days are long gone. We went to Schartner Farm which we've been to the past three years because we sort of know them through the mom's club. This year though jeez the farm as completely grown from cute quaint family farm to almost commercial status. Good for them. They have a corn maze, pony rides and a pumpkin patch. We only did the apple picking and of course Tyler was mad that I didn't let him do the corn maze. So we may be back. The kids enjoy apple picking so of course we had great time We just wish daddy could have come but he is in Malaysia for two weeks so we are on our own.

Finall School Starts

So we finally started school on Monday. It felt like a long time coming since a lot of our friends started weeks ago. I couldn't believe it, this year I purposely bought shorts for the first few days of school because it's always hot and this time, it was actually cool just like school should be. Good thing I had a back-up plan. Next year note to self be prepared for rain and/or sunshine! Funny thing Kendall's shoes kept coming off but just like any other woman when I asked if she wanted to change her shoes because those were too big she said "no, these are my beautiful shoes".