This weekend we took our annual trip to Spokane to the Pumpkin Patch. This is a tradition we started about 3 years ago with some great friends of ours. Unfortunately this year we missed having some of them with us! This is a fun-filled KID weekend! We left early Friday and got to Spokane early to check into our hotel and take a little walk on the River Trail.
Here are the kids posing for a picture along the trail. Take note that Carter is 4 and Kalei is 6. Yes..once again we see that our children are just little people!
Jackson just being cute(and not ornery for once).
This is Hannah and Carter. They love each other....or so Hannah thinks. As they grow we will probably have many of these pictures. I wonder if in 6 years they will still be holding hands?
Friday evening consisted of our FIRST EVER excursion to Chuck E. Cheese. I was a little concerned how this adventure would go.....I remember Chuck E. Cheese as a kid being dark and dirty.....ewww..shudder to think of it. However, we were pleasantly surprised. I think this must be a fairly new Cheese. It was very bright and light and it seemed fairly clean. They also stamp you and your children when you come and you have to be checked when leaving to make sure the children are leaving with the right people. I thought that was a great thing! Our kids have never experienced anything like this and the first time one of the games spit out tickets they thought they had hit the Jackpot! The kids had fun and the adults enjoyed following them around trying to win even more tickets so we could at least choose 2 pieces of candy at the ticket redemption!(sarcasm) The pizza wasn't that great but oh well.
Happy girls at Chuck E. Cheese
The kids and their loot!
Saturday morning we have some delicious breakfast that the hotel provides and then head out to the fruit ranch. This place we go is great. Pumpkins, Apples, Hay Maze, Pea Pit, Pony Rides, Restaurant and store. We start by picking out our pumpkins, take pictures, tow the pumpkins back to the car. Then we head over to the main area and catch a ride on the tractor(the hi-light of Jackson's day) out to the apple orchard. We pick(and eat) apples. I gathered up 2 boxes of expensive apples($37.00 worth). The plan is to make applesauce and carmaled apples and anything else you people want to suggest. I hope that I can follow through with "the plan". After apple picking we mozey on over to the Pea Pit and the Hay Maze. The kids play, the parents watch. After spending 3 hours on the farm we head back to the hotel. The guys are lucky enough to hang out with the kids for some much needed "Dad-Kid" bonding time. The girls get to go shopping. After the girls get the shopping done the guys get to go watch more football without the kids or the wives. After the guys leave the gals gather up the kids and walk to the mall for even more shopping! Soon everyone is tired and the day is over! It's a fun-filled weekend! Can't wait for next year!~
The kids posing with the pumpkins!
Pulling the pumpkins back to the car.
Apples!
Bottoms up!
Rolling in the peas.
It's not the same but at least the kids get to play in peas like I did as a kid!
Family pic.
Sisterly love.
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