Pumpkin patch + Friends and Family+Alpine Loop= FUN weekend

We had a really busy, but FUN weekend! Friday we went down to Springville to Jaker's pumpkin patch with the girls.  It was a pretty big patch and we got some cute little pumpkins. They also had a few animals for a "Petting Zoo" and a corn pit! 

So Random...a llama and a kangaroo (or wallaby) together.

On Saturday, Ben had a service project in the morning, then we loaded up the girls and went through a house in Provo, then met Grandma and Grandpa Brewer for lunch! (Yummy! Thank you G&G Brewer!) Then we went through a house in Orem. Its really fun/exciting to be looking at houses. We have a feeling its going to take a while to find the "One" though. We aren't in any big hurry.  After the showing in Orem, we came home, got the girls down for naps and CLEANED the house (It DESPERATELY needed a thorough cleaning). Our good friends Grant and Bri and their little Bracken came for dinner and we had fun playing with babies, going on a walk and carving pumpkins together. Ben and I did the cat and Grant and Bri did the fun face! It was a fun evening (Thanks Grant and Bri!)

Sunday was a great day at church. I only got to teach sunbeams for a few weeks, and now they've called me to be the Primary Pianist. After church, Ben and I went to choir. Ben watched the girls there while I subbed for the choir pianist. I love singing/playing Christmas music so early! After church/lunch/naptimes, we went for a nice Sunday drive on the Alpine Loop. It was GORGEOUS! The fall colors were so amazing and vibrant! The girls did extremely well on the long drive! The pictures don't to it justice...but here's a few.

What a GREAT weekend it was! Looking forward to Halloween weekend! Fall is the BEST!

FYI- Alice's MRI a couple weeks ago came back CLEAN AGAIN! YAY!

Cornbelly's!

This past Saturday we took the girls to Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving Point. It was a BEAUTIFUL day and was a lot warmer than we expected! We started off with the cornmaze. We wound our way in a good ways and then tried to back track our way out. It usually takes us a LONG time to do these mazes and we didn't think the girls could make it all the way if we tried to do the "real" maze. I felt we were successful though! We got ourselves pretty lost and managed to find our way back out so that counts right? :)

At the beginning of the outing both girls were so happy and excited to be there!

eventually Merrilee had to get out and help push the stroller!

Merrilee had fun playing with the corn she found in the maze!

After the maze Merrilee loved playing in the corn pit while mommy fed Alice

After Alice was fed, we let Merrilee play on a big spider web and a hay tower/pit!

Then Daddy took Merrilee through the Snake maze for kids. Merrilee Loved it! Ben had to bend over and duck his head the whole time.

After the snake maze it was time for the Train ride through the non-maze corn fields. We did this a couple years ago at night and they had these creepy scarecrows and pumpkins and goblin scenes that were pretty freaky at night, but this time we saw them during the day and they were pretty silly and fun!

This is the best we could do for a family photo while we were there

After the train ride, we let Merrilee play with the duck races, watch the robotic farm animals sing and dance, get a snow cone, play on tractors, go down many slides throughout the park and see the pumpkin princess!

Alice had fun too, although I think next year she will be able to enjoy it a little more! She spent most of the time observing all the commotion like this...

But we did manage to get a cute picture of her in a little hay/pumpkin display! We tried to get both the girls together, but that failed miserably.

We were going to get pumpkins there, but they were crazy expensive, so we might go to a real pumpkin patch in the near future to get our pumpkins. If not, I guess Winco pumpkins will have to do! :)

Fun Weekend in Rexburg

 This past weekend we drove up to Rexburg, ID to visit Ben's brother's family for the blessing of their little baby William. The girls were really good on the 4 and a half hour drive there. Of course right when we got there we had to get a picture of the two babies together! Alice is 4 months and William is 2 months. They are both small for their ages. You can definitely tell they are related!

Saturday evening, Adam and Kylie showed us the orchard on the campus of BYU-I, where we went apple picking! First of all, I think it is AWESOME that the BYU-I campus has a beautiful orchard/gardens right on campus and that students can pick their own produce and pay minimal $ for it! Second of all, it was a perfect Fall evening for such a fun Fall activity! Thanks Adam and Kylie! That was fun! 

Poor Alice is usually sleeping when we take these "Family Photo" ops.

There were over 100 different varieties of apples!

Apple Tasting

You could see the Rexburg Temple from the orchard!

Merrilee loved tasting the apples

Alice woke up! We forgot her hat in the car, so a burp cloth had to become a little bonnet for this chilly evening

Sunday morning before church, Adam showed us around campus.  We found a nice spot to eat lunch on campus and as we were getting set up, a squirrel kept on following me! It came right up to me and would have walked over my shoe if I wouldn't have moved it! It also walked right UNDER Adam's foot! It was a funny squirrel and made lunch exciting. After lunch, we went to Adam and Kylie's ward for William's blessing.  It was very lovely. Right after the blessing, I had to go walk the halls with Alice for the rest of the meeting because she just wasn't going to sit through church. Of course she had to fall asleep right before it was time for family photos! :)

After church, Adam and Kylie had everyone over to their place for a luncheon. Alice woke up for that and we were able to get a few pics of the girls together in their cute Sunday dresses!

Merrilee loves giving Alice loves! :)

After the luncheon, we headed back home.  The girls again, did great in the car! What a fun weekend! 

On another note, tomorrow is a big day...Ben starts his new job and Alice has another MRI!