We have a family tradition of going to this adorable little orchard here in town each year to pick out our pumpkins. They have a tractor, a hay maze, and all kinds of fun stuff but it's up on the side of a mountain and not many people seem to know about it.  We've gone the last 3 years and it's so fun to see how the children have grown each year.

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Sniff. They all grow so fast!

We had so much fun there, we always do. It's become one of our favorite fall traditions, I think. The kids loved running through the hay maze about 10 times. Then they found a "butt" pumpkin, which we all thought was pretty funny.

Hahaha.

It's getting chilly though, so I'm glad we went this weekend! When I looked back at the pictures from last year, I realized we went there almost the same exact day last year- on the 25th instead of the 24th.

In pregnancy news, I will be 35 weeks on Monday (the 26th) and I am officially very uncomfortable. Still not having many contractions, but I'm really hoping baby doesn't get too comfortable in there. Sitting hurts, walking hurts, laying down hurts. Thankfully it's not excruciating yet, and I hope it doesn't get to that point this time. Chad really wants me to make it to the 9th so we can have our homebirth (I'll be 37 weeks then and it looked like we might not be able to have the homebirth afterall because of insurance stuff that just came up with the midwives, but they agreed to do it anyway if I make it to the 9th) but at this point, as long as I make it past Halloween, baby can come anytime as far as I'm concerned.  Having a homebirth would still be preferable, but I'm at peace either way. I'm just getting really anxious/excited to get through the birth and meet this new little one!

Posted by knechtslodge

What wonderful pictures. You have beautiful children. I hope we get to go to a pumpkin patch this year, but we are steadily running out of time.
Blessings
Diane