okay, so it doesn't exactly feel like the crisp fall weather that we're used to. but, it has gotten cooler! we have been loving the weather lately. i can actually go outside after 11am without sweating to death.
every time we pass a pumpkin, mae goes nuts and yells "punkin!". so i knew that this would be the year that we could take her to a pumpkin patch. i did some research and found some good ones not far from us. this little munchkin had a blast.
the first thing we did was a pumpkin hunt. you ride a tractor out to the evergreen farm, and get to hunt for little pumpkins hidden throughout the trees. mae loved the little pumpkins. i love how excited little things make her. holidays are that much better when you have a little kid around to get excited with.
i love this guy
then we checked out some of the animals that they had on the farm. i wasn't too sure if mae would really like this, sometimes animals freak her out. (and when i say animals, i mean taxidermy animals at cabella's, or the fake animals they have at the rain forest cafe. so, maybe it's just fake animals that freak her out).
then we played a little bean bag toss
i've always loved to bake. but something about the fall makes me want to bake like crazy...especially things with pumpkin! so, we've done quite a bit of baking around here the past few weeks. whenever i bake, mae likes to put on her little apron and get out every pot, pan, bowl, spoon, cookie sheet she can find. i love it because it keeps her pretty busy!
after general conference, cody and i decided we needed to start some regular family home evening. and the past few weeks we have had some fhe successes. we usually do something simple, like this week we talked about the prophet and sang 'follow the prophet'. that's about as much as mae can handle. but, it really brings the spirit into our home, and that is a feeling that i want mae to grow up with.
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