One fine fall afternoon, we met up with an after-school playgroup to do some apple picking. One of the moms is a fantastic photographer, so she snapped a group shot and individual families! Pay no attention to the goofy boys on the right. Ha!
The kids enjoyed picking apples and running around with their friends. The orchard is run by a sweet, older couple, and their policy is 'all you can eat' while you are picking! We came to the same place 3 years ago, and they still have Cortland, Macintosh, and Honeycrisp! Yum! Lots of apples in lunches and maybe some applesauce coming our way.
We also did our annual trip to the nearby pumpkin patch. Aw, we've been coming here for 7 years! Hasn't changed much. Classic hay pyramid pic.
The kids had a great time taking in all of the fun activities again, including a corn pit (filthy corn dust everywhere!), jumping pillows, and crazy haystack slides.
The kids spent probably an hour in total going up the haystacks and down the slides. They were supposed to go down the slides feet first, but of course our little rule breaker H had to test the opposite. Face first, right into a mini corn pit. Thud! Later, Owen and a couple of friends figured out that they could fill burlap sacks with some of the corn, haul them up the haystack, and send a corn waterfall down the slide with them. For some reason, that was super fun!
The kids love pedal cars, but Hadley isn't quite strong enough to power hers on her own. So, Owen hopped off of his and pushed her all over the patch, barefoot! (Because the grass was wet by the jumpy things and their socks were drying.) Isn't that a sweet big brother? Then they found one with a seat for two, but I was the only one big enough to pedal it. And Owen still had to push us over any bumps!
Oh, and we did find a pumpkin or two to bring home!
To complete our fall trifecta, we went to Pocatello's City Creek trails again, too. This time we brought Dad along! He adores fall colors!
Lots of beautiful scenery, yellows and oranges and reds, from maples, aspens, and other plants all getting ready for winter. It was warmer than last year, but maybe that caused some of the plants to be out of sync. Anyway, it's still a lovely trail with a babbling creek and bridges back and forth over it.
We did venture a little bit further this time and came across an impressive overlook of the city of Pocatello. I guess fall is all right...
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