Pumpkin Pickin!

In keeping with my love for all things fall, it's time for one of my favorite traditions...the pumpkin patch!  This is definitely an outing that we all look forward to and this year we were really excited to have Bunky Ryan and Auntie Kelly with us to hunt for the perfect pumpkin! 

Kelly found a great little family farm east of Denver and unlike the huge and very crowded patch we usually go to, this one we had all to ourselves!  Aside from pumpkins, they had a corn maze which was a first for Riley who was pretty excited to lead the way through, but a little nervous that we might not ever get out. 

They also had a huge inflatable slide that Riley was determined to not to enjoy until her Mama drug her up and tossed her down...then it was all over, we were lucky to get her off to come home with us.

Both of the girls loved the pumpkin patch!  There were so many good pumpkins that it was hard to choose just one.  Riley found about 8 that she was hoping that we could take home, but in the end she settled for a nice medium sized round one and little bitty one.  Piper was just happy just to sit in the dirt and play with the pumpkins and leaves, her favorite part was probably watching the two dogs that followed us out there.

I think that we have found our new favorite spot for punkin pickin!  We left with 4 perfect pumpkins and now we have to carve of these...yikes!

Riley surprised us with her carving skills this year.  She wasn't too crazy about cleaning out the guts, but once we started to poke holes to make her pattern she did an awesome job!  However, she did pick out one of the most complicated patterns that she could find, so after about 2 hours and a little carpel tunnel we had a fairly decent looking Belle for our little princess.

Piper's contibution to the pumpkin prep was her handprints that we used to carve her very own little bitty punkin.  She just enjoyed the view of her big sis getting a little bit crazy.  Riley was a pretty big fan of the pumpkin carving tools, especially the electric ones and she took it upon herself to "fix" our pumpkin lids. 

We are all ready for Halloween...bring on the costumes and candy!