Oct 27, 2009

Even though we got our pumpkins about a week ago from a Nursery in town (the deal was $16 for as many pumpkins as you could hold: I held 7 and Caleb held 8 - not too shabby), we still wanted to have a pumpkin patch experience, so we headed over to Bates Nut Farm yesterday afternoon. We did the tractor ride on hay bales and the straw maze (where the kids had to find 8 different mailboxes and stamp their papers at each one - they loved it) and the petting zoo (Megan loved this part) and ended the trip with a stop in at the treat shop there where the kids picked 5 treats from the candy barrels. Very fun.
(We didn't want to have to drive two cars, so we did some fancy finagling in the back of the Excursion, and strapped down both Nathan and Megan's car seats). Megan thought it was pretty cool).

Oct 4, 2009

Yesterday we went to the Miramar Airshow. It's fun to get all sorts of food and blankets packed up and then go and spend the day on the base and watch the awesome airplanes do their tricks. Yesterdays trip wasn't as relaxing as other airshow events for the following reasons:
*It took almost 4 hours to get from our house to where we parked our car (it should usually take about an hour - the traffic was HORRIBLE)
*Both Caelan and Ben threw up
*Megan had an accident (and there are only port-a-pottys)
*Nathan spent the first few hours crying (he's been sick, and he was just exhausted but was fighting off the nap)

Despite how bad it sounds, it was actually a fairly fun day. The kids were mostly good and had fun (minus their couple of incidences), and the fun air stuff was awesome. We ate tasty homemade salsa and chips and other snacks. The Blue Angles were awesome - it's amazing how close together they fly. The firework show was great and the Wall of Fire is always an impressive sight. You can feel the heat from it all the way to our seats.

Oct 3, 2009

We went to Disneyland on Dad's birthday (their deal this year is that everyone can get in free on their birthday plus Megan is still two years old so she is free too). It was a perfect day to go (bad economy, weekday in October = very few crowds). The lines were so short. We got to go on everything we wanted and the kids had a blast. Caelan and Ben loved all the rides from the roller coasters to Peter Pan and the Carousel. Megan's favorite was the teacups. Megan was still too small to go on any of the real big ones, but she liked all the Fantasy Land rides. They have a great Halloween firework show, and the Haunted Mansion was all decked out "Nightmare Before Christmas" style. It was great. We had a blast and were thoroughly exhausted by the time we got home. Good day! Can't wait to do it again.