My Pumpkin pictures

I love Autumn!! It is my favorite season. I love the colors, the smells and the cooler weather it, usually, brings. I realize, of course, living in southern California that our Fall is nothing like what it actually is in other states. But that's okay, I love visiting Utah in the fall because the weather is so perfect. Anyway, moving on, I have a tradition that I started when Lillian was born of going to a pumpkin patch and taking pictures of her and the pumpkins. I have continued that as I have added another kid. This year it seemed almost impossible, however to find the time to go. My Saturday's kept having things piled on top of them, but we were eventually able to go, the day before Halloween. Not the best idea, since the place was packed and we had a good distance to walk. The kids didn't mind and actually really enjoyed the outing, even though it was short due to other activities taking place that day. I actually got some great shots of the kids in front of the pumpkins. However, my favorite picture of the two of them was actually outside the bathroom we stopped at before beginning our "trek" to the pumpkin patch. While waiting for Brandon, Lillian climbed up on top of a rock and, of course, Preston wanted up too. Such a darling picture!!

 As it turned out getting them both to sit AND smile at the same time was next to impossible, but whatever they still looked adorable.

 She has grown so much since last year.

 and he isn't far behind her either.

 My favorite picture of Lillian, it turned out beautifully!!

 Lillian loved running around to all these things and sticking her head in, she requested a picture, of course, at each one!!

 Preston wanted to do whatever Lillian was doing too, but getting the concept through proved a little more of a challenge. We did eventually get him to put his head through and then he wouldn't stop!!!

 His 2yr molars are coming in, so he is in the "chewy" stage. It's either his fingers or the bottle!!

 Again, getting BOTH kids to look at you was really challenging!!

 We almost go both of them....

 This was the best one!! Oh well, at least both their heads were in the holes. LOL (next time we will work on the smiling part.) ;-)

 Preston was fascinated by all the pumpkins. He kept running around to all of them and saying "punkin." It was hard to get him to sit still, yes I realize he's not quite two and toddlers don't sit still anyway, and smile for me. He was just too distracted by all these pumpkins.

 These are the best ones we could get of the 3 of us with the pumpkins. Wish we could have gotten Brandon in the picture, but we didn't have anyone to take it.

 As you can tell, Lillian was really hard to photograph. LOL Her eyes were closed in most of them. Still a cute picture, though.

It was really fun to take the kids to the Irvine Railroad's Pumpkin Patch and I am so glad we were able to make/find the time. They had a wonderful time, especially eating the bag of popcorn we got them.