Oh Boy..Catch Up Time Part 1

So we last left you in August when Lawsyn turned 7 months, September came and as you can expect Lawsyn turned 8 months and learned to pull him self up very well into standing position and cruised along furniture gracefully:

Jen and Matt celebrated their 7 year anniversary, enjoyed a beautiful dinner at the Crab Catcher in La Jolla and a gorgeous view of the sunset. Ah....

October was an actually well packed month full of events. We had guests in town. We had Halloween costumes to be completed. The kids decided to be part of the movie, FROZEN, this year.  Kalista wanted to be Elsa and Lawsyn got to be Olaf. Jen made both of their costumes this year and as you can see, did some dress fittings along the way.

Lawsyn celebrated his 9 month milestone. He was cruising along furniture even better than before.

 

 

As yes..our guests: We had Yin-Yin and Yeh-Yeh (Grandpa David and Grandma Evelyn) visit at the beginning of the month to spend time with the kiddos.

We enjoyed our annual fall trip to the Bates Nut Farm to see the amazing pumpkin patch and animals.  Kalista enjoyed feeding the goats and piggies. She even got her face painted. Lawsyn was shocked to see pumpkins bigger than him.

Oh my!  We have plenty more October events including a magical wedding, but need to start a new blog post to fit it all in.

TO BE CONTINUED....

Pumpkin Patch

We finally made it out to the Bates Nut Farm last weekend to enjoy a good afternoon of fall festivities and to see why other families rave about this place. With the smell of kettle corn in the air and pumpkins scattered about...we explored the farm to find a small petting zoo, inflatable monster slides, barbeque and pony rides. We didn't get Kali on the pony ride, but she was fascinated by the horse drawn wagons that trotted past her very own parent drawn carriage (a.k.a. stroller). There was a pretty cool John Deere tractor train circling the event area too.

We saw a few pretty good scarecrows..even ones made out to look like Angry Birds characters. Evidently, they won first place in the scarecrow contest.

Kalista enjoyed the fields of pumpkins and we meandered through the actual pumpkin patch in search for the biggest pumpkin we can get our hands on. We didn't find a giant, good-looking pumpkin, but instead the patch resembled a battlefield of wounded pumpkins. Many of the pumpkins look like they had exploded from the scorching hot sun. Kalista felt adventurous enough to sit on one of the decent pumpkins we did find.

Hold on..I'm concentrating

Whoa...so many pumpkins!

I love the Bates Nut Farm!!!