Grandma and Grandpa came into town this weekend for our monthly visit. We decided on Saturday to go to Eckerts and do some apple picking and pick out our pumpkins for carving for halloween. We totally lucked out and had a beautiful day to go to Eckerts. The weather ended up being around 60 degrees and sunny. Such a change from the last few days we had seen in St. Louis.
We walked around and a lot of the stuff they had to do was for bigger kids, but we did get to see some animals. Nora LOVES animals! She wanted to pet the camel and goats. She ended up feeding the goats and grandma and grandpa's hands got all spitty from the silly goats. Nora loved it and wanted more!
We got onto the tractor and they took us to where the apples were. We got to pick honeycrisp apples. They were really sweet and yummy! Nora enjoyed picking the apples, but really enjoyed eating the apples. She was too funny. After I let her have a bit she kept signing and saying more. Grandpa helped her pick some apples that were high up! We got a lot of apples and can't wait to make candied apples with great gran tomorrow!
Nora made daddy share some of his apple with her. She was too cute walking around looking and watching all of us pick apples.
After the apple picking we went back to the main part of Eckerts and picked out our pumpkins! Nora had a great time posing for pictures for mommy. Well at least I think she did. She looked so darn cute sitting in front of all those pumpkins. She kept touching them all. We should have an interesting time carving them this year. Check back later in the week for new pics of that!
Of course we couldn't leave without getting a shot of the family. We had a great day with grandma and grandpa!
So we had our annual pumpkin carving night. We had 6 pumpkins to carve this year. Peter, Katie, Zach and myself all carved pumpkins. I carved 3 pumpkins this year. One for me, one for Nora and one for our friend Natalie. We had pizza and then had our carving party.
We had a fun time carving the pumpkins. Katie and Zach decided they were going to do intricate designs. Zach ended up scratching his original design and Katie made some modifications. Peter went with another original design this year that as you can see fits him well!! 
We have decided that next year we are going to try to grow our own pumpkins up on our hill. We are going to plant enough seeds for 10 pumpkins and hope we get at least 3 out of that. We won't plant the seeds until July so we have a while yet. Happy Halloween!!!!
