Pumpkin Express

Today we went to a really neat pumpkin patch called Pumpkin Express.

It has a fun train ride that takes you around to the pumpkin patch.

Of course Avery LOVED it!!! {heading in....Avery, Griffin, Ellie & Noah}

{Noah, Ellie, Avery & Griffin}

{Avery riding the train}

{Avery & Ellie}

{Griffin & Avery}

{Griffin & Avery}

{Greyson & Avery}

Nash Farm Fall Festival

Spinning Pumpkin

Thanksgiving

We like to start out every Thanksgiving by heading to downtown Dallas and meeting up with a group of friends to do the Turkey Trot...

Then we headed home where we were hosting Thanksgiving

at our house {for the first time!} this year...

that's a large crowd to feed

{and that's not everyone!}

Here's a peek at my Thanksgiving table:

placesettings with Avery's handprint turkeys:

and of course the dessert table:

Happy Thanksgiving!

Halloween

We got to spend this Halloween in San Diego.

Avery had SO much fun hanging out with her cousins

and going trick-or-treating for the first time! {Our little bumble bee}


{Kaya the ladybug}

{SO excited to go trick-or-treating!}

{Avery & Kaya...ready to go}

{the first house}

I wish I had gotten a picture at the second house...as soon as they opened the door, Avery walked right in like she ownedd the place and headed over to their front window to get a closer look at the giant owl decoration they had there.

It was pretty funny!

{Avery & Janner the train conductor}

{Avery's first lollipop}

{Mommy, Daddy & Avery}

check out the gorgeous San Diego sunset in the background!



After trick-or-treating, we headed back for our

spooky Halloween Supper...

{bloody brains with eyeballs and fingers on the side}

{and ice cream witches for dessert}

**More pictures from the rest of the trip coming soon!

butterfly flutterby

Saturday, we headed over to Grapevine Main Street for the Butterfly Flutterby...

Avery had a fun time watching the butterflies...
decorating pumpkins,
talking to the police car, riding bikes,

and just having an all around good time!

Howdy!!

from the State Fair of Texas...We headed out to the State Fair on Wednesday with MeMe.

Here we are checking out Big Tex!
Avery has a Texas ABC's book and "B" is Big Tex.
We brought the book and she kept looking at the picture and then up at Big Tex...

a Fletchers Corny Dog & Big Tex...
now you know we're at the fair!

We also had a burrito, caramel apple & fresh squeezed lemonade...yum!

We chose not to partake in the fried food extravaganza...
but if we had, some of the choices were, fried pecan pie, fried oreos, fried lattes?, fried cheesecake and the big one this year...fried butter (yuck!)


Avery wanted NOTHING to do with the Corny Dog!


Avery's favorite part of the fair was the petting zoo...

a Texas Longhorn


feeding the goats..."here, try it"

more goats

a HUGE camel!

and a cow...

they also had donkeys, zebras, emus, ostriches, alpacas, bison, a mama pig with her piglets and a kangaroo with a joey in it's pouch!

pumpkins!

On Monday, Avery & I met our friends Dena & Hudson and Leslie & Griffin at the Pumpkin Patch. It's been rainy and wet, and needless to say the pumpkin patch was a BIG mud pit!!!

But we went anyways and the kids had a great time!




Look at how much fun they are having!

This is one of my favorite pictures of the day!

Giddy Up Pumpkin!

Hugs for Griffin.

Checking out the pumpkins with Hudson.

I'm gonna get you, Griffin!

Don't they look deep in conversation!?

This is such a typical Avery picture...

tongue out taking it all in!

peek-a-boo!

Mommy & Avery

This is the little pumpkin Avery picked out.