Apple Pickin' and the Pumpkin Patch

To celebrate Columbus Day, today we trekked over to Lyman Orchards.   Because, you know, in 1492, Columbus liked to apple-pick, too!

This one is for my friend, Caryn, who loves Fall:

It should be peak where we live next weekend, but this orchard is at a lower elevation, so I suspect they are a couple weeks away from peak...the apples are a nice touch, though, and maybe you can work the orchard pic into your theme this week! ;)

For those of you waiting to see the baby...

...I hope you enjoy these shots, because Nicky smelled like fermented apples for the rest of the day!

And let's not forget these handsome fellas,

who would not believe that apple picking would be a fun morning out of the house (read: away from the Xbox and Wii).

As you can see, we're growing like weeds!

But we're still...

 Mommy's li'l pumpkins!

And we did, in fact, have a great time!  (Some of us even got quite the workout!)

(Everyone begged to pull the wagon on the way down, but then, go figure, they all complained when I let them pull it on the way BACK!)

HAPPY FALL!!!  The holidays will be upon us before we know it!