Category: Autumn


This year for Halloween we put on our costumes at work and took treats to the workers.  Mom made marshmallow ghost bags, oreo spiders complete with hand drawn spider webs on the outside of the bag, and rice krispy treat pumpkins.  We walked around and gave everyone at work a treat.

Ryland was a train conductor, Autumn was a princess, and I was Snow White.  Grandma made the girl costumes, but Autumn wouldn’t put all the parts of hers on.

Fabrice was tricky.  We gave him a treat and he gave us a candy and our treats back!

Nick was balancing that big board of pictures when we gave him his treat.

Autumn carried her box of treats all around the lab.  She would put it down, get out the treat, give it to the person, and then pick up her box again.

Ryland decided he was done wearing his costume!

Dad found a list of top playgrounds in the Front Range so we went to check out one of them in Fort Collins.  Something Mom and Dad didn’t think about was the fact that it snowed alot there 3 days before.  We weren’t exactly dressed for a playground of snow, but we had fun until we got cold!

Here we go-check out all this stuff.

Here’s the tube slide with a window.

Check out these swings.  They are giant chairs to sit in.

Say hi Autumn!

I’m gonna huff and puff and blow you over!

Wheeeee!

Make us go HIGH Daddy!

You can turn this and it’ll talk and record you talking.

Where there was snow you had to walk carefully and hold on.

ON the bridge we could jump high.

Daddy, come jump with us.

Dad, you stand down there and we’ll throw snowballs at you.

Daddy, help me climb up this chain ladder.

We love these bouncy things to ride on.

By now Autumn’s pants, shoes, and socks were all wet and she wanted to go home.  Bye bye fun park!

Today we went with Mommy, Jeffrey, Caitlin, and Ry to a pumpkin patch.  This place had lots more than just pumpkins though!  It had animals, bouncy houses, haystack mazes, rope mazes, a town, barrel train, hay rides, and room to run.  Plus we had corn dogs and pulled pork sandwiches for lunch!

This year, Mommy remembered that a wagon would be good for this kind of place.  Since we didn’t have a stroller she figured the babies could use the wagon and I could walk.  Boy was she wrong!

Actually, I got out soon after and the babies walked a lot of the time too.  Look at the chicken and the mooooo cow!

See the sheep-it was too busy eating to talk to us.

Maybe I can pet the goat instead.

Here’s the bouncy house.  Autumn cried the whole time inside and I didn’t even go near it!

Next we went on the barrel train. I helped uncle Jeffrey pull the babies in the wagon.

The barrels didn’t have any seats so you really can’t see Autumn sitting inside.

We climbed the stairs of the castle and found this spot to have a snack and stomp out feet.

From the castle we could see a rope maze down below. We had lots of fun going through the maze.

At the end of the maze we found a pirate.  She even shared some of her pirate treasure with us-a Starburst!

More running and fun.

Playing in the rope maze was so much fun that we headed to the haystack maze next.

Here’s some pictures of the “town” that they created.

We stopped to take some pictures with pumpkins.

Next was the hayride to the pumpkin patch.  Mom was showing Jeff what it would look like when they had another baby!

Pumpkins!

This was the ride back to our wagon.  Everyone was holding their pumpkins.

After pumpkin picking we headed to the grass area to have lunch.  We shared a pulled pork sandwich.  It was yummy!  Then we had some time to run and play!

One last look at the animals while Mommy and Jeffrey paid for our pumpkins.