Weekend Recap: We Love Fall

I'm so late on this post that I'm struggling to remember everything we did this weekend, but luckily I have plenty of pictures to remind me.  ;)  The boys were at school this past weekend, so we got to hang out with Maddie and Sarah on Friday night.  We went over to their house so the little ones could play.  I was again reminded that Ben plays quite a bit harder than Maddie.  She was perfectly content playing in place for an extended period of time, while Ben was turning her microphone in to a baseball bat and drop-kicking balls into the window.  I am usually pretty tired by Friday nights, but Ben made sure I was totally beat this week.  :)

After music class on Saturday morning, I decided to take Ben shopping with me.  I must have temporarily forgotten how busy he is, because I was surprisingly frustrated with his ball kicking, shelf-climbing, clothing stack knocking self.  There was no way of containing him to the stroller so needless to say our trip was cut shorter than it would have been if I was shopping solo.  Of course he balanced his silly behaviors with his sweet behaviors, so I couldn't be frustrated for long.  :)

After our fun shopping trip we went and took care of some business.  My car had been having some issues, so we dropped it off at the dealership and got a super awesome loaner car in its place.  Smooth move, Acura, now I want a fancy new MDX!  I really can't remember what we did for the rest of the afternoon besides count down the hours until daddy came home.   Ben misses Andy when he is gone, but after a trip to our favorite restaurant for dinner with daddy, all was right in his little world once again.

We like to make the most of our Sundays after Andy has been gone, so we decided to have a picnic lunch and go on a hike to enjoy the beautiful fall weather.  Apparently I took about 50 pictures of my boys, but they looked so cute it was hard to resist.

They were both in heaven.  Luckily for Andy, Ben loves the outdoors as much as or maybe even more than he does.  

Not sure what the tongue is all about, but cute nonetheless.  

There were big beautiful bluffs, so we had to take some STEEP stairs to get down to the water.  

But, once you walk down, you have to walk back up.  I did feel a little bad that Andy had to carry 25 extra pounds on his back, but then I remembered that I've been caring an extra 20+ pounds around 24/7 so I didn't feel as bad.  Hah!

Although he was a happy camper in his carrier pack, we did let Ben get out for a bit.

I am pretty sure he could have thrown rocks in to the lake with Andy for hours.  

He did have time to take a quick picture with his Momma though.

The weather was gorgeous and some of the leaves were changing, so it was a perfect afternoon with my boys.  I can't wait to have another little boy joining us soon!

Ben took a nice nap after our big hike, so I was able to go shopping…BY MYSELF for a few hours!  I love my boys to death, but it was nice to have a little "me time."  Although we were all plenty satisfied with our busy day, we decided to squeeze in a little more fall fun on Sunday evening.  We went to a pumpkin farm close to our house that also had a play area, a petting farm, and a train.

 We didn't get to pick our pumpkins from the pumpkin patch, but Ben still had fun choosing the perfect pumpkin.  He made it very clear that the first one he picked was for his baby brother.  It was pretty much the sweetest thing ever.

Love my little pumpkin sooooo much!

Last, and definitely least, Ben went on the train.  The last time Ben went on a train like this, it went in a circle right in front of us.  The farm was almost closing, so there weren't a ton of kids there riding the train, and we were totally caught off guard when the train went around the entire farm!  The poor little guy was on the train all by himself!  We felt soooo bad and I was actually kind of scared for him.  He was excited to get off and wasn't upset when we said it was time to go home after the train.  ;) No tears for him, but still!  That doesn't exactly look like the face of someone who just had a good time.






Time for bed!  Goodnight!  Tomorrow is Friday!!