pumpkins

We brought the kids to a pumpkin festival at Lombardi Ranch yesterday. It was 92 degrees outside, but since there wasn't going to be another chance for us to go, we went anyway. (Halloween is next week, and we wanted the kids to at least have a week's worth of celebrating with pumpkins/Jack O'Lanterns around the house.) The whole experience would've been more, um, authentic if it wasn't so hot ("Which is why I can't imagine Christmas in Australia!" Kat was saying) but such is fall in SoCal!



Anyway, I am loving these fall harvest traditions, if only for the reason that they are so exotic to me. Pumpkin patches, sunflower and corn mazes, wagon hayrides. Delightful stuff! We all got to eat corn on the cob and caramel apples while listening to live country music; the children, including Olivia, chose pumpkins to bring home; Imo got to wheel them (the pumpkins, not the children) in a wooden cart; I totally knocked myself out taking pictures.