proper pleasing pumpkins

I love traditions and I love supporting our small town and I love supporting missions.  This outing did all three!  Another year picking our properly pleasing pumpkins at CFUMC.  They served us well this fall.

pumpkin patch with logan

It was my 7th time on this field trip to the pumpkin patch at CFUMC when you add together the trips taken with all three boys in various grades.  The first was with Micah when he was in Pre K and here again this year during Logan's Pre K year.  He loved his experience this year and was so excited to have me along.  I love when my boys love me ;-) 

There was a story time, fun outdoor centers, and the movie about growing pumpkins which I might possibly have memorized by this point.  Here's to two more years until the final visit!

mitcham farm

Our fall was unusually full of travel meaning our annual trip to the corn maze and pumpkin patch had to be squeezed in on a Friday evening so we returned again to the little farm down the road in Oxford.  It was hot and quite unfallish in regards to weather but none seemed to mind.  We spent a fun few hours sliding on the slides and other activities.  Our favorite is their large inflatable bouncer.  Zach spent quite a little bit of time mastering a round off back tuck and nailed it eventually.  I did my annual toe touch and left it at that! 

Building traditions is one of my favorite things as a wife and mama, I love when the boys ask if we are going to do the same thing this year as we did in previous ones and look forward to repeating fun adventures.  I look forward to repeating them with these loves in my life as long as I can. 

picking pumpkins

Pumpkin picking time!  

We made our way over to Covington First Methodist after the piano recital for our annual choosing of the pumpkins.  This was the first year in awhile that Zach was around to go with us so he actually got to pick out his own daddy pumpkin this year instead of the boys doing it for him.  They've already asked at least fifty times since then when we are going to carve them, but I still have at least another week of them sitting cutely by the front door until we hack them all up!

fall festival 2016

Fun times at the annual NCTS Fall Festival!

It was roasting hot and definitely felt more like a summer event than a fall one, but we had a great time trying out all the games on the field and checking out the raffle baskets.  We even won one.  That's four years in a row!!  This year it was a camping basket full of supplies that will be very beneficial for our first family camping trip this coming weekend.