season

Autumn is my FAVORITE time of year! I love the fall activities, like hayrides, pumpkin picking and bobbing for apples. I also love the weather, warm in the day and cool at night. I love sleeping with the windows open so our bedroom is cool, but snuggling up to Chad in our flannel sheets so we are toasty warm! I also love that my son has his birthday in October. I always thought that when he gets older, we can have crafts to do at his birthday parties like pumpkin painting. Fall is a great time of year!

We got a jump on the fall activities when Chad's parents took us all to a farm in New Jersey where they live. Just arriving made me feel giddy! I could see the pumpkins from the car and couldn't wait to get out!

We rode on a hayride to apple orchards and pumpkin picking patches. Eli wanted to desperately to kick the hay in the hayride. It was nice to see all of the different rows of different types of apples.

When we got to the pumpkin patch, Eli knew just what to do. All we did last year was go to fun fall activities so he was a pro! He found this big pumpkin and as we photographers were asking him to sit on one or between them, he decided to straddle one.

Of course Chad had to get in on the fun, showing Eli how it is done! As you can see, Eli is in the background having his own fun!

In the above picture and the one before it in the background, Eli is holding a gourd. Wherever he goes, he usually picks one thing to hold onto the whole time, as if for comfort or something. Usually it is a rock. On this day it was a gourd. Poppy nicknamed it Gordy. Gordy still sits on our counter and Eli likes to hold it.

We had a lot of fun and it seems that Eli loves this time of year too. I try to tell him his birthday is coming up soon, but of course time is something that kids don't really understand fully until they are older. He is just starting to be able to sing the happy birthday song, so that is a start. :)