Pumpkin Patch Day

We spent last Sunday at a couple pumpkin patches. We first went to Rombach's in Chesterfield. It was so much fun and SOOOO windy. You can tell that from all of our pictures. Not a good hair day, that's for sure! We ended the day in beautiful Augusta at Centennial Farms. This one wasn't as good as I expected it to be, but Kate enjoyed their little playground with a haybale maze.

Kate was fascinated by all the little pumpkins.

She would pick up the dirt and sand and then hold her hand out for us to clean them off.

She wasn't too sure about all of these big pumpkins.

Seriously... how sweet are chubby little baby hands?

Oh, and I have to mention this. This is how Kate preferred to walk around the pumpkin patch. She screamed if we carried her, didn't want to hold our hands, but she HAD to push the stroller by herself.

Trust me, it was a SLOW trip.

The cutest was when she would stop to peer around and see if anyone was coming.

We took a break for a snack. Can you see how windy it was??

Then, she took a trip through a little tunnel. She crawled all the way through to Daddy.

Notice the leftover banana on her face? Where was her mother with those baby wipes, anyway?

While Kate snoozed, we drove to Augusta (beautiful drive) and visited Centennial Farms.


















It ended up getting REALLY cold, so we left. Kate's nose was all red and we all had windblown hair.

It was one of our best days so far this fall.

Mark and I kept commenting on how everything is so much more fun with our little lady.

Happy Halloween!!!

Halloween is my second favorite holiday! To make the day even better, I DON'T HAVE SCHOOL!!!! That's the reason I am up so late posting pictures and putting the last minute details on our Halloween party. Pumpkin patch pictures to come in my next post tonight....

Have a WONDERFUL Halloween!!

Wasting Time

Mark and Kate are taking a nap. There are two loads of laundry to be folded and some cleaning up to do before we leave for the pumpkin patch when they wake up.

What am I doing??




I'm "Yearbooking Myself". Wasting time, you say?? But wait, look how great these are (ignore the fact that I didn't line up the picture just right and that my bangs from the original picture are sticking out in all of them... I was rushing... remember the laundry?? And my photoshopping husband was asleep.)


AHH! Crazy 80's!

This almost looks real.

Sad to say, but I honesty like this hair!

Now, that's scary!

What's up with the neck in this one?

See the bangs in this one??

Ok, I'm done... off to do the laundry. For real, I mean it.

The Dress

This is Kate's first birthday dress:

I ordered it off of etsy. And, obviously, it will say Kate... not Olivia. :)

Kate is turning ONE!!

We can hardly believe it, but in less than one month, Kate will be ONE!

Be looking for these in the mail... we would love to see you there.

Fall Fun

Fall is our favorite season. Walk into my house this time of year, and you can tell. I love all things about it... the colors, cooler weather, pumpkins, leaves.

When Mark was working at the church, he had Fridays off and that was his day with Kate. When he started his own business, he kept Friday as his day off. It may not be that way for too much longer, but I love knowing that she is with him on Fridays.

Last Friday, he took her to the park and shot some fall pictures of her. She apparently loves leaves.

You can catch a glimpse of all the silly faces we see in a day from these pictures.