Fall Family Fun

Today we spent a beautiful Fall day with Nicholas's Auntie Shianne, Uncle Tim and four cousins, Cody, Tyler, Kristi, and Cassie. We went out to lunch and then went pumpkin picking at Lyman Orchards. I mean, this was the real deal! This was no patch of dirt where some farmer had laid out a bunch of pumpkins for us to pick from. These puppies were still growing on the vine! It took us a while, but we all found our perfect pumpkins.

The deal was that the kids had to be able to carry their own pumpkins to the car. Well, Tyler won the prize hands down for the biggest pumpkin - 49 pounds! You should have seen this kid trying to drag this thing to the road. It was hilarious! In the end, he needed a little help, but he got it home. Todd says it was about 40 pounds of stem, and 9 pounds of pumpkin - tee hee!!

It was such a beautiful day - much hotter than we were expecting! Nicholas loved the pumpkin patch. Kristi picked him a white pumpkin, which he proceeded to lick - yuck! Everything is going in the mouth lately, though. The teeth are coming in fast and furious now - we're at 4 and counting. 1 on the bottom, and 3 on the top. And only 2 of them are the front teeth. That's my boy! He likes to do things his own way for sure.

We're doing well on the addition - this should be a big week. We're expecting windows on Tuesday, and for most of the framing to be done by the end of the week. We're certainly keeping our fingers crossed! After the framing, the mess will move indoors - oh joy!