Pumpkin Patch!

It is officially fall, the leaves are turning colors and the cool air at night. Kansas looks so pretty in the fall. I enjoy the beautiful colors and with fall comes pumpkin time. Today Payton had her first adventure to the Pumpkin patch. My mom and Erin met us at our house with Roxanne and Aubrey. We went to the Cider Mill and had donuts and fresh apple cider. I ordered Mitch and I hot apple cider, and of course burned my mouth, and tongue. I hate that feeling that is left after you burn it. Your mouth feels terrible for 2 days after that. Once we were done with our donuts and attempting to take some pictures drove to The Powell Pumpkin Patch. They played on the hay bails and all around the hundreds of pumpkins. It rained the day before so it was pretty muddy. Roxanne did not like that mud was on her shoes, but they had a great time.

It was a beautiful Saturday morning. Payton found a pumpkin that was just her size. We ended up coming home with three pumpkins. One for each one of us in the family. We have our pumpkin family sitting out on the front porch. I love when we can have family days on such a beautiful day. Kristen and Josh Levitt also came along for the fun. Payton can hardly wait for Halloween to get here so she can get all dressed up.

On the way home from the pumpkin patch we stopped to pick up Payton her big girl car seat. She has officially graduated into a car seat now and we have put up her infant carrier. She looks so much bigger sitting in a car seat. Payton then got to spend the evening with Daddy and mommy went to work.

Weekend road trip

We went to Springfield this last weekend. Payton got to go on her first road trip to go see her Uncle Sean. We had a great time. We arrived Wednesday night and had a wonderful surprise Thursday morning. A flat tire, yes that is always a treat, and of course it couldn't be patched so we got to buy a new one. We got to go see the new building Sean teaches in and while he had class on Thursday, we took Payton for her first Brandson experience. She could hardly contain her excitement. We did a little shopping at the outlet mall and then drove back to Springfield.
Payton was excellent the entire trip. She let us all run around and she slept great all the way there and home. We walked down to a park at the end of Sean's street and she had her first encounter with swinging, she loved it. Friday Sean had a barbecue at his new house in honor of Payton visiting. Mom and Dad are just chop liver. She played with everyone and let anyone hold her and talk to her. We also went to a tailgate party on Saturday morning before there Homecoming football game. The weekend was fast but lots of fun and then we drove home Saturday afternoon.
I got a wild idea and cut off all my long hair before we left town on Wednesday. It will hopefully help out. Payton just pulls it all the time and I never really had much time to try and do it and make it look nice and out of a ponytail. So I just went for it, we will see how I like it, only time will tell.

Baby profing

We have been working on baby proofing the house. We put up our baby gate and I took down a couple of breakable candle stands. I am not really putting a lot away, she isn't really left unattended to wonder around the house. We will see what all she tries to go after. So far the only target she aims for are the two moving targets, Bailey and Bentley. I timed it out well in honor of baby proofing we got a dining room set.
We got it yesterday and it looks great. I am so excited. It actually looks weird to have furniture in that room because since we have lived there it has been empty. The furniture is a nice dark wood and makes the first floor look complete. The dogs lost their room where they roll around and attack each other. I guess they will have to do that outside more often.
We also got the news on Friday that Mitch will be having knee surgery again. This makes the 5th one. Poor guy he is limping around and hurting pretty bad. They are going to go in clean out all of the scar tissue that has built up. It is probably his last step before a total knee replacement. We are hoping to get it done the day before Thanksgiving, so he will have a long weekend to recover before returning back to work. Mitch also started his new position at Cerner this last Monday. So far so good, it wasn't a very busy week for him but he is getting his feet wet. Well that about sums up our new news.