On Saturday Scotty and I took Kayden to Bates Nut Farm out in Escondido. We have only been to one other pumpkin patch out in Del Mar, but we have heard that this is the mother of all pumpkin patches. Scotty can remember going out to the Farm when he was a young child. So when Maica invited us to go on Saturday, we couldn’t resist! The weather was chilly so we thought it would be a great Fall day to pick out the perfect pumpkin to carve. Wow, were we wrong! We left the chilly beach and hit the 90 degree heat of east county! We were all bundled up, so consequently we didn’t last long! I think we were there a total of twenty minutes. We managed to take a mini-tour and then pick out our pumpkins. Maybe next year we’ll be better prepared and actually get to enjoy the petting zoo, train ride, face painting, tours, or bounce houses!

Sorry, we were apparently too hot to take any pictures! 🙁

Once we got home we dressed the kids up in their matching unisex costumes and did a photo shoot. Last year we dressed the babies up and did a great photo shoot at the pumpkin patch. While that was our goal this year too, it was just too hot for these little duckies!

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And here is how she really feels!

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What a difference a year makes! Here are the babies last year.

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After we unsuccessfully took pictures/videos of the babies, we started the pumpkin carving. Kris and Maica had great team work and carved ‘Chuze’ into their pumpkin- it’s the name of their gym. I’d like to take some credit here and say I at least gave Scotty the idea of what to carve, but honestly I deserve NO credit! Scotty carved a pug face into our perfect pumpkin. It turned out absolutely amazing!!!

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Costume? Check. Pumpkin? Check? Candy? Check. We are so ready for Halloween!