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Celebrating Fall

This month kicked off the Fall season.....and we took full advantage of it and did so many fun Fall activities. 

Pumpkin patches:


Zeke's favorite word by far is definitely "punkin" so him being at a pumpkin patch was by far the highlight of his month.  The farm we went to had a family night so we gathered some friends and headed out! Pony rides, petting zoo, "punkins", train rides, and even a corn maze.....done and done!!!! 

Apple picking:


Every year we head out to the local apple county with a couple families, choose a farm, and get a pickin! For some reason, my genius self decided to find other options than where we went last year! Obviously, that was not a great idea. Not only did we spend triple from last year, but there were almost NO apples! The pears were delicious and abundant. Like I said, apples were far from that! They had 3 different types and right before we left we found a couple trees in the parking lot where we not only filled up our bags, but also filled up our wagon! The kids hid them on the way out by sitting on them......Oops! 


Pumpkin carving:

Since Zeke is still a little too young to carve a "punkin" without our help, we gave him some paint and a pumpkin and let him go to town! It turned out really good and he loves painting so that was a SUCCESS! 


Brandon, of course, chose the biggest pumpkin at the patch! So off he went to carving that sucker. Being that Game 6 of the World Series was playing the night we carved our pumpkins can you guess what he carved???? A Boston Red Sox bearded player! I thought it turned out ok.


We drilled some holes into Zeke's "punkin" so it would light up the night! 


Last but not least, Halloween:

Any holiday at daycare = fun Pinterest idea treats! Here's what we brought! So so so so so easy and still pretty cute!


The cutest part of this post (drumroll please)...........

Arrrrrrr


Zeke was a pirate!

Happy November! This day definitely kicks off the holiday season and us Kirks are more than thrilled about that! 

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