Last Thursday was an absolutely beautiful fall day. I did not want to waste the gorgeous evening so the kids and I planned a fun little outing for our family. We started off by surprising Erik at the end of the work day. We met him in the parking lot by his car and took him from there. We drove to our favorite park and had a pizza picnic.
It's pretty hard to get Thomas to sit down and eat while we're at the park. We've found if we let him play with the pizza he'll eventually eat the whole slice.
(Please excuse the next few blurry photos.)
Erik had just as much fun playing as Thomas did.
Wheeeee!
Just swinging with my girl! Check out the red hair!
Love this picture of these two. Great smiles, great fall colors! After the pizza picnic and the park we headed to the pool! It was a great way to burn off any remaining energy. Thomas slept well that night!
Saturday we bundled up and headed to the Pumpkin Patch! It was a chilly day but that doesn't keep the Anderson's from making memories!
The pumpkin patch/apple orchard has these little playgrounds all over the place. We stopped at every slide along the way.
As Thomas would say, "Daddy, hold both babies."
Ahhh. Mama loves Thomas kisses!
Now he knows where apples come from.
Nothing better than a honey crisp right off the tree! We couldn't leave without a bag of these bad boys. They're like candy!
Taking a little break to listen to Lyndon...
Thomas took a little ride on Oreo. Oreo was quite the stinker. He was startled by the wind and lets just say it was a rather breezy day. There is a reason they have parents walk along side the child.
Our little pumpkin picker.
Hay ride out to the pumpkin patch!
Thomas walked around pointing at pumpkins saying "this one will work." According to Thomas' standards, that pumpkin patch had a lot of good pumpkins.
Playing Peek-A-Boo with Nora.
I can't believe I got a shot of both of them looking! Have to take 100 to get one good one!
Sunday morning Thomas and Erik shared a jelly donut. Thomas hands it off when he gets to the jelly. (like his Mama he doesn't care for the "red.")
The boys did some building. These blocks belonged to Erik when he was a young boy and they have provided hours of entertainment for Thomas. He mostly likes us to build tippy towers so he can do the demolition.
These two are quite the architects.
Sunday afternoon we attended an open house at the Chanhassen Fire Station. Whoa baby, that was a good time. There were lots of emergency vehicles to check out.
He is pretty proud of his Junior Fire Fighter badge.
Perhaps the best part was the ride in the fire engine. These two were extra lucky and got to ride shot gun!
Sparky was cool from a distance but not cool enough to get a high five from Thomas.
They finally got busted for being stinkers. Looks like Mama might get a quiet night to herself!
It was such a beautiful afternoon so we hurried home to have an early evening bon fire. Thomas had about 5 fudge stripe cookies and three marshmallows. No wonder we couldn't get him to eat dinner.
I love that for one minute he was able to sit and admire the fire.
Of course we had Kevin over for a smore.
One day Pretzy will make a great little camper.
I think Daddy enjoyed snuggling her by the fire.
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