On September 30th I turned 28, which means I've got 2 more years to enjoy my twenties! This year my birthday fell on a Monday so we had fun celebrating the weekend before all the way through to my birthday night!
We got our first taste of New England fall that weekend when we went to Lyman Orchard. It was a beautiful cooler (60s) but sunny day and the leaves were just beginning to change colors! We went apple picking for the first time ever and also picked our pumpkins from the vine in an actual patch rather than just a field with pumpkins scattered around on hay bales :)
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| The apple pickers! |
Jackson is a fruit lover and a big fan of apples so this was heaven for him. Abbie who hadn't ever shown too much of an interest in them had a change of heart when she saw how fun it was to eat them straight from the tree. Thanks to her, there were lots of little apples with one or two bites taken out of them scattered around the trunks of the trees. We bought a couple bags of apples and I had intentions to make yummy apple desserts out of them but we ended up just eating them all! An apple a day kept the doctor away for all of us for a couple weeks!
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| They even had pony rides, Jackson's first time on a "horse" |
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| Such a pretty day! |
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| Off to pick our apples! |
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| Abbie found her perfect pumpkin |
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| The best cider donuts we had all fall! |
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That night I went to dinner and the Relief Society Broadcast with the women of our ward. We had a ward pot luck dinner on Sunday evening and that night Tyler got the house ready for my birthday the next day.
He is keeping up my family's tradition of the birthday shrine! He got my favorite donuts, juice and even some autumn colored flowers. Thanks to Paige, Michael, Mom and Nana for contributing presents to the shrine :)
After indulging in sweets it was a normal Monday morning and I took Jackson to school and started the laundry. Both kids had coughs that day and were a little more needy than normal which made for not the most relaxing of days I must admit! But we had plans to meet Tyler for lunch at Cheesecake Factory and although the kids weren't doing their best we still went. We got the kids a pizza to share and we shared one of their huge salads and got banana cream cheesecake for dessert!
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| Playing a game of peek-a-boo! |
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| Ya all the pics we took were out of focus, oops! |
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| Their favorite part was stopping at B&N afterwards. |
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During quiet time that afternoon, we talked to Uncle Michael and had fun taking some silly face selfies to send to him.
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| Cross Eyed Zoolander? |
Jackson had a hard time waiting until Tyler got home to help me open my presents so I must admit he opened a few throughout the day. But we opened most of them about 20 seconds after Tyler walked in the door. Jackson soon realized these presents were not that exciting but he had hopes that I'd receive trucks and toys for my birthday... I did receive lots of fun pants, shirts, sweaters and boots!
We had a yummy chalupa dinner at home and then invited some of our new friends over for cake and ice cream. Tyler didn't have much time to make the cake so he ended up buying it from the grocery store but it looked and tasted great :)
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| My sidekicks are never too far away :) |
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