Jack sitting with a scarecrow

I love autumn, and October in particular. It’s my favorite month of the year. The weather is perfect, and there’s always so much fun stuff to do. Even more so now that we have a kid to share it all with!

Yesterday we went to Schaake’s Pumpkin Patch in Lawrence. We’ve never been to any pumpkin patch, as a kid or otherwise, so it was a first for all three of us!

We drank some apple cider and wandered around, letting Jack check inspect the pumpkins (though he was more interested in the rocks than the pumpkins), run through a maze made out of bales of hay (video below), chase pretty little girls, and take a tractor/hay ride out into the humongous pumpkin patch, where they dropped us off so we could choose whichever pumpkins we wanted.

Standing with some pumpkins bigger than he is!

Climbing up a rock slide

Brian in the middle of the pumpkin patch

I was able to get some good use out of my new iPhone by recording some videos, too! I love, love, LOVE this new phone! I’ll be able to capture so many cool moments! I am going to have to be careful about how close I hold it to my face, though. I can be a mouth breather, so I need to keep a respectable distance from the microphone. Ha ha ha ha ha.