Pumpkin Patch

"Wow what a lot of pumpkins!"

A couple of weeks ago now we took Mackenzie to the pumpkin patch to pick some pumpkins for Halloween. She has been learning about pumpkins at school so when we got there she was fascinated by the sea of orange pumpkins! Unfortunately it was a pretty wet day by San Diego standards so we didn't stay for too long, but it was plenty of time for Mackenzie to walk around and look at the really big pumpkins (we didn't buy any of those) and for us to pick some pumpkins to take home with us!

"Orange pumpkin"

The place we went to is Bates Nut Farm which is a bit of a drive but is really cute as they have a nice country store there and lots of extra things for the kids to do like a corn maze and hay rides. Lucky for us Mackenzie is still a little too young to realize what she was missing out on as we didn't do any of that due to the rain, but she was happy to see some animals then get back into the car to watch her Nemo movie!

Too excited about the pumpkins to pose with Dad.

"Ok Mum just one photo!"

As of yet we haven't carved our pumpkins but with it being Halloween tomorrow we need to do it either today or tomorrow I guess! We ended up with one for carving and then we got Mackenzie this kit with all sorts of facial features that she can press into the pumpkins to make faces (kind of like a Mr Potato Head I guess) so we got her a couple of little ones for her to make faces with. I'll take some photos of that, and will hopefully get them up on the blog real soon!

She loved walking about the pumpkin patch!

One of the lucky pumpkins coming home with us!!

So many pumpkins to choose from!!

The two lucky little pumpkins to come home with us. She loves to carry them all over the house!!

Watching some tv with her new friends!

We are all doing good and still as busy as ever!! John took some time off work over the past week and was able to get the painting done on the two rooms that we are swapping to make room for the baby. It was nice having his help in the mornings to get me and Mackenzie ready for work! We ended up going with pink for the girls new room and it is definitely pink!! We are still organizing it so once it is done I'll get some picks of that!! For all of you who celebrate Halloween I hope you have a happy one!!

I wanted John to take a photo of my growing belly...he took that literally and cut my head off!! But this is me at about 29 - 30 weeks. (I have a terrible time of remembering just how many weeks I am this pregnancy!)