Fall Fun - Apples, Pumpkins and Halloween

Fall activities are so much fun and Dayton is now at an age where he is beginning to enjoy them. Here's what we've been up to this fall!


We headed to the Garden Factory for some indoor fall fun with cousins, but before we left this guy was not too thrilled!

After breakfast at the Rochester Public Market, Josh and I took the kids to Green Acres Farm to pick apples and pumpkins.

Dayton wanted to carry his pumpkin to be weighed. Cutie!

After picking our tiny little pumpkin (I had already bought pumpkins to decorate with at the house -this was more for the "experience."), we picked Jonagolds and Golden Delicious apples. We've since made lots of yummy apples recipes!

Halloween was slightly dampened by Lincoln's 2 day stay in the hospital (more about that to come in another post...), but Dax still wanted to go out as a lion. We kept Linc tucked away in the stroller, so he didn't get to rock his scarecrow. We still had fun seeing all our sweet neighbors as Dax went trick-or-treating for the first time!

D's first how to trick-or-treat!

His sweet buddy, Sophia, answered the door!

We love our little house in fall weather.

Annual neighbor photo -one day I won't need to be in the picture.

Such a fun fall! We cannot wait for Thanksgiving and Christmas just around the corner. Celebrating life with friends and family is one of the greatest blessings!

Stephanie

Fourth of July

We really had such a wonderful Fourth of July this year! We want to introduce a love and appreciation for our country and all the history that still makes this nation great as early as possible. For a toddler, that basically means cheering at a parade in our sweet little town. It's close enough to walk over with the wagon and meet friends.

Boys are so fun and parades are made for them! Fire trucks, loud cars, drums and bands! What more could they want?!?

Before the parade, we cheered Josh across the finish line of the July 4th Race (10K) along with Mr. Brad and a couple other friends from church. Dax and I "raced" to Starbucks and then to find the finish line before Daddy crossed.

In the afternoon, we really just relaxed, grilled and enjoyed strawberry short cake. All-in-all, a very American weekend.

Here are our favorite pictures from a very fun day!

We are so proud of Daddy and all his hard work -Rochester Marathon, here he comes!

Mr. Brad and Daddy, great running buddies.

Cutest little fan.

Ready for the parade to start.

Our favorites! Look at that chunky baby face all -if we could only take off the Boston hat.

Serious parade patrons.

 In awe of all the truckies.

Seriously. This is our life.

Cheering for the fire trucks! 

Waiting for the trucks to make "beep beep" noises.

Go, go, go.

Hooray, truckies!

Best we could do. Toddlers are the most fun to photograph.

He thinks he's part of their family.

Serious dance moves. I cried tears of laughter.

His white boy moves.

Serious white boy moves.

They really think suckers are only for drumming. This is an awesome mama win!!!

We can't handle his cuteness.

Three sweet babes -toddlers don't do pictures on purpose. Ever.

Love these sweet friends and so thankful they live in our little town!

Walking home withe a hungry boy in the wagon.

Nom. Nom. Nom.

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." Ronald Reagan