I may have said this before, but October has become one of our busiest months of the year. Why? Because it is just so gorgeous here in October and there are so many fun fall activities that we just don't want to leave any out. Add two kids playing soccer....and you've got a recipe for a dizzying kind of exhaustion before Halloween. But I wouldn't trade it.
The weekend after the camping, we took off as soon as soccer games were over on Saturday and headed to Amicalola Falls. It has long been one of our fall traditions to go hiking at Amicalola and then head to Burt's Pumpkin Farm to do a little pumpkin shopping.
This year, the weather could not have been better. There was a hint of fall in the air (just a tiny hint) and a beautiful blue sky. The older the kids get, the more they enjoy this part of the trip. They LOVE climbing on all the rocks on the trail and they are just super troopers about all the steps. (You may note that one of the photos has them posing in front of the sign that tells just how many steps they climbed to the top of the falls.)
We also enjoyed stopping by Burt's for our pumpkins. The kids helped pick out the pumpkins, and since they have been asking non-stop this year about when we are going to decorate for Halloween, we also let them pick out some decor for the yard to add to the stuff I bought at The Target last week for inside the house.
I always thought decorating for Halloween was just putting your Jack-o-Lantern on the front porch, but these kids have the expectation that Halloween decorating should rival Christmas decorating. Perhaps because so many of our neighbors go all out. So, I'm trying to compile enough decorations to make the little people around here happy.
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