Fall Biking

We spent a lot of fall biking- to the fountain park, at holzingers and all over town. Emi has gotten to be so fast on her scoot bike and Peter is just a whiz on his pedal bike of course. Peter at one point this fall biked 7 miles with me while I ran around the lakes. Lainey loves riding in the backpack with us as well.

Pumpkin Patch with Friends

We had the warmest trip to the pumpkin patch- I kept thinking while we were there that this is how people in California do these "fall" activities. This was our last week of this warm weather though, so I'm glad we made the most of it!

 This is funny- the moms were all talking and not really supervising this activity. As you can see, the boys had taken it upon themselves to "load" up the truck with as many pumpkins as possible- the lady that owned the patch was NOT pleased and said to "not touch the pumpkins unless we were going to buy them!"

 But, as you can see, we had quite the troupe of kids along- 8 kids and 2 babies (Lainey and Evan who missed out on the picture taking!)... it was like our own little day care center!

Swinging Bridge

We had a beautiful day with too much to do, so we got out of the house and went to check out a place we'd never been to before- the swinging bridge in Galesville. I haven't spent much time in Galesville- just have driven through to a yarn shop that we like to visit on occasion. We weren't sure where to go, but found the park that I remembered that it was attached to and started to walk-

 The "cave" we found along the way- Emi told me she saw "scary eyes" in it...

 We finally found the bridge!  It was much longer than I had anticipated and the kids were much more excited than I had thought as well!

Unpovoked love for the baby... Guess we know who everyone's FAVORITE is??

My little hiking buddy

 We also stopped at the apple orchard on the way home. They have a big green tractor out front that Pete usually comments on- so I said we could try and get a ride today. Of course the tractor wasn't there, but we walked back into the orchard to see if we could find it and just hitch a ride back. I was just about to say- I don't see it-- too bad-- when Pete piped up- I SEE IT! I see the roof of the tractor. Sure enough, just over the knoll you could see the flat green roof of the tractor against the green grass. We hustled up there and found an empty row and got a jostling ride back to our car.