You know what else I love? Events. Festivals, parades, concerts in the park...you name it. I want to go, and I want to take a gazillion pictures while we are there. My sweet husband actually despises these sort of things, but he loves me, so he not only goes, but is somehow able to fool me into thinking that he is enjoying himself (I think he secretly does enjoy them...I mean, how could he not?).
Enter one of my most beloved fall places...the pumpkin patch! Okay, so it wasn't really a pumpkin patch, but more of a pumpkin-y event put on by a local farm that we have come to know and love...Suzie's Farm.
Last year, when we did our pumpkin event of the year, it was hot, and I was enormously pregnant, which made for a less than ideal experience. This year, God brought us an amazingly cool, overcast day, and I'm not enormously pregnant (or pregnant at all...as far as I know).
Here are some pictures of us celebrating the best season of all!
Don't you just love it when someone (after watching you awkwardly try to get a photo of everyone in your family) stops you and asks if they can take a picture of all of you? It's not perfect, but let's face it, the more kids you have, the harder it is to get them all to
We recently bought an Ergo carrier, and Lydia loves it! It's really convenient in not-so-stroller-friendly places like this, and still allows us to have our hands free for the older children.
Being less than cooperative while I try to take pictures...Kylie has mastered the ability to say "cheese" while looking completely miserable....sigh.
Picking out the perfect pumpkins...it's quite a meticulous process!
My sweet Lydia being so cooperative while I got a little overzealous with the camera...I couldn't help myself!
Apparently, photogenic energy is contagious.:)
We had a great time and came home with some cute pumpkins. It was a fun way to celebrate fall and the beginning of a season when Nathan should be home a little more.
For those of you who don't know, it has been a very rough summer for our family. Nathan has been home about two weeks of the last four months, we had to miss a wedding that we were so excited about being a part of, and we started school with Zach this year (which is actually going really well).
We have a tendency to look at our less than ideal circumstances and forget all of our undeserved blessings (and more importantly, the One from whom all blessings flow). As I looked through these pictures when we got home Saturday afternoon, I was reminded of how blessed we are. And I was reminded that seasons don't last forever. This summer seemed endless, like the heat would never give way to cool, like rain would never come. But like it always does, autumn came, bringing with it much needed relief. Our amazing Savior is so faithful to carry us through these times that seem impossible to get through, to forgive us when we doubt, and to continue to work all things for His glory and our good.
"In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith--more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire--may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ." 1 Peter 1:6-7
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