{Columbus Day Weekend}

Sean had Columbus Day off! Why? No idea, but I'll take it! And he also worked from home on Friday so it was practically a 4 day weekend! It was magical. We were thinking about taking a big camping trip or traveling somewhere, but last minute we decided to stay home and just take it easy - spend time at home, work on a couple things around the house, and not be stressed out. Best decision ever.

On Saturday we went down to a pumpkin patch! I was so excited! Our weekends for the next few weeks are going to be kinda crazy, so I wasn't sure that we'd be able to make it, but I'm glad we did! Right now I'm desperately missing Dallas. Some of my happiest memories from Dallas happened in the Fall and I have been missing it. The state fair, the mommy school, the arboretum, general conference with friends, Halloween.... so being able to go to the pumpkin patch just gave me a little taste of fall and giving me some motivation and push on how to make California feel like home.

This pumpkin patch also had a bounce house, which is pretty much the greatest thing in the world.

They make me so happy!

These faces!!!! 

And a pony ride! First time and she was a huge fan.

Family Selfie! close enough lol

  

For the rest of Saturday we did some yard work and then had a camp out in our backyard! We bought a firepit (hooray!!!) Hotdogs and smores for dinner. (Miriam slept inside - we're still trying to get some good sleeping habits so I didn't want to mess that up by making her sleep outside.) It was pretty fun!

On Sunday we went to church and had dinner with some lovely friends. Sunday night we had some people over for smores (yes, we'll be eating a lot of smores with our new firepit). It was awesome. At our place in Dallas we regretted not investing into our backyard space early enough. We just thought it was dead and messy and wasn't much we could do with it. The last year or so we were there we really worked on it, added our veggie garden, worked on the grass and bushes, and have some wonderful memories in that backyard with our family and lots of our friends. We didn't want to make the same mistake here, so this whole weekend we worked a ton on the yard. Ripped out all the weeds in the overgrown garden, planted some stuff, made a new bed in the front, tamed the blackberry bush, worked on the woodpile, etc. We're excited with the progress we've made so far. This yard has a ton of potential and we're excited to see what we can do with it!

On Monday we went to go see Meet the Mormons. It was a great show! I was apprehensive, but ended up loving it! Evette really enjoyed it to and we've had lots of great gospel discussions about it. We've talked about why sometimes babies die, why people go on missions, and others. It's been fun!

Also - note Sean's awesome hair. This is what happens when you don't shower and work all morning in the yard - good man.

 

It was a wonderfully relaxing weekend!