Autumn fun!

We took our annual trip to the apple orchard last weekend. The weather was perfect (it happened to be a Colts game that day, which is why we're all decked out!)

We went a bit later in the year than we usually go so many of the apple tree varieties were done for the year. The one's that were left were mostly at the tops of the trees so Nick had to serve as cherry picker (or apple picker in this instance!)

Here is Andrew trying to carry the FULL bag of apples! He thinks he's very mighty.

The Golden Delicious were right in season and plentiful so the boys were able to pick lots of them.

After all our hard picking we took a rest while taking a ride around the orchard.

Alex was off school on Wednesday (parent-teacher conferences) so we joined my MOPS group for a trip to Stony Creek Farm. We took a great hayride to the pumpkin patch. Don't they look cute!?

Here is one of my famous attempts at a fun fall photo of the boys together. Yeah, not so much.

On the hayride home one of my MOPS friends snapped a rare photo of me with the boys.

Here are they boys on the hay mountain.

Here is our Andrew J. pretending to be a scary pumpkin. He cracks me up!

And Alex was a scarecrow--I think I'll miss him most of all. :)

Purdue Football Game!

This Saturday we made the piligrimage to West Lafayette to see Nick's beloved Boilermakers play some football! Here are the boys heading into the stadium:
















The stadium is full of all sorts of Purdue icons...here's the little train that leads the team onto the field:














...and Purdue Pete (although he kind of looks like he's picking a wedgie in this picture!)















Here's the marching band with The Worlds Largest Drum in the middle (it has an American flag drapped over it).













Then the team came onto the field with much fanfare. The boys really liked this part!

We only made it to the second quarter because the game was pretty dull and the boys got bored but they did get to see the Boilers score a touchdown and have the college football experience. Good times!