10.07.2018

Meadow Ledge Farm and A Weekend in NH

We are in NH this weekend to visit Gram and Grumpy and to see our friends C & H to celebrate H's birthday.

Yesterday we spent the morning at Meadow Ledge Farm. While we waited an hour for the best cider donuts on the planet, the kids played on the tractors and in the pumpkin patch.





Next to the cider donuts, the best part of picking at this orchard is the "hay" ride out to the orchard to pick. The girls loved it so much they took a ride from the store to the orchard and back just for fun!




We hung around the house, swam in the hot tub, went to a playground and ended our weekend with a bowling birthday celebration.









9.30.2018

A Weekend Away

Our neighbors and good friends have a lake house on Loon Lake and invited us to spend the weekend with them. I was a bit apprehensive about bringing BabySlimJim since a lake house has a lake and he loves the water- I was imagining myself constantly rescuing him from "swimming" in the cold water, but he didn't try to go in even once! 

The girls had a blast playing outside almost every moment of the day, even Sunday morning at 8am with temperatures in the 40s! They collected and built forts and explored.




There was a very doable hike up a trail called Crusher that we did a couple times. It was nice because for fairly little effort there were some very nice views.


It was a really nice weekend away! 

9.19.2018

Sunnyside Gardens

Today we met our playgroup friends for our annual Sunnyside Gardens trip and wagon photos. Much to the girls' disappointment and the moms' excitement (because the prices for the entertainment are so outrageous) the hayride, train ride and pumpkin patch weren't open for the season yet.

Somehow the kids entertained themselves on the displays of thousands of pumpkins for a couple hours despite the lack of paid activities.



 At least we had an opportunity to take our annual wagon photos!
 
 

The kids did some pumpkin modeling:


And the two crazy kids did lots of jumping!

Hopefully we will have a chance to go back before all the fall fun ends, but who knows... it's shaping up to be a busy fall!