Riley's Farm

Katie had the day off school, so my Mom planned a trip to Riley's Farm. The only problem was, since it wasn't a weekend, they didn't have many activities going on.We had lunch, which was super yummy and nice cold drinks in their cool mugs. Topped off with a cookie dessert, yum.

The kids walked around exploring, climbed trees, and posed for pictures :p

Apple picking was pretty cool when we found these handy dandy apple picking tools.

The girls just loved this secret clubhouse. They wanted to play in it all day.

When we ran out of things to do at Riley's, we headed over to a pumpkin patch we passed on the way. It looked so cool, a lot of neat rides and things to do there. The kids each got some tickets and were able to go  on some bounce houses and go-karts and things. We let them pick, mostly. We did have to stop them from spending $40 on just bounce houses and slides, lol.

Before we left the girls each picked a pumpkin to take home and carve =)

A nice way to spend a day off off school!

Stu Miller's Pumpkin Patch

I know this pumpkin patch is small and has the same few rides every year, but I really like taking Katie every year, and now Emma too. Of course Emma couldn't do anything yet, but Katie was able to go on the rides with her cousins and they had a lot of fun together.

Hopefully next year Emma will be able to join the kids on some of the rides or bounce slides. It's hard watching other kids have all the fun.

New Toy

I used the gift card Emma got for her birthday, to buy her a new toy. It's pretty cool, she likes watching the balls fly out.

My Mom is 45!

My Mom turned 45 today. We celebrated at my Grandma's. She made tacos and I bought a cake. It was nice to hang out with everyone.

Even Ashley made it over for dinner.

Hopefully she had a nice night with us. I bought her tickets to RiSE Lantern Festival in Vegas in 2 weeks for her gift. I'm so excited to go, it looks beautiful.

Happy 12th

Karli had her 12th birthday today. She got so many clothes, she'll be dressed nicely for a while. It's funny how they go from wanting toys to clothes as they get older. Katie's not into clothes too much yet, she just wants to be comfortable.

It seemed like she liked everything =)

It's so fun watching the kids grow up. Next year Karli will be a teenager, hard to believe. I met her when she was just 4 years old.

An American Girl In A Limo

The Girls Scouts used their cookie sale money to rent a Limo and go to the American Girl Place in Los Angeles. They were so excited to get in the limo. I was a little disappointed that it was so squishy in the limo. We had a lot of people I guess. The limo driver was even nice enough to get balloons and some sparkling cider for the girls, since they're too little for champagne.

I didn't realize how big the store was.

Katie brought some of the money she's been saving and bought a new dress for her doll.

All of the girls were able to pick out a doll to take home, get their picture on the cover of the monthly magazine, eat at the cafe, and get a hairstyle.

The store has a small salon section, for the dolls to get their hair styled, with different options to choose from and different prices. This is the style Katie picked out.

The Cafe was pretty cool, they gave each girl a small highchair that connects to the table so their dolls can sit with them.

Each doll was given a small plate and cup the girls were allowed to take home after.

The dessert was so cute!

Katie changed her doll into her new dress, she looked beautiful and Katie was a happy girl =)

The girls gave a toast and drank their sparkling cider on the way home.

It was a pretty fun day. Emma was a bit of a handful, but not too bad. The store was really cool, the bathrooms even had little holders for the dolls, so they didn't get dirty on the floor while the girls used the restroom. Good reward for selling cookies =)

Rise Of The Jack O' Lanterns

I saw tickets on Groupon, for Rise of the Jack O'Lanterns. It looked pretty cool for only $12. I've never heard of it before, but I read online that they carve over 10,000 pumpkins, to look like celebrities, video games, spiders, dinosaurs, all kinds of things.

Katie was assigned her Girl Scout troop's Brownie Elf this week, so we brought her with us on our trip, too. Katie had fun for the first 20 minutes, then she dumped her in the stroller for the night.

Some of the pumpkins were really cool looking. Of course they had Frozen pumpkins. Katie liked those ones a lot.

All in all, I would say it was fun, and really neat to see all the carvings. BUT, on the other hand, it was VERY crowded and hard to even walk to the next exhibit. Add a stroller in the mix and it was just annoying. I'm not sure we'll go again next year. Maybe if they limit the number of people that go in at once, or something.

I was really glad my Grandma went with us, she doesn't usually go places. It was nice having her there and spending time with her =)