Our little pumpkin

And so it begins...


One of our first "family traditions" officially started this past weekend about an hour outside of Atlanta at Uncle Shuck's Pumpkin Patch (and corn maze...for when Kins gets a little older). We had planned on doing this for about a month, realizing that the next couple of weekends leading up to Halloween may be a little unpredictable with an out of town family wedding, Hunter's surgery next Tuesday, and Kinsley's Baptism. Although Kinsley was battling yet another cold and her first set of ear infections, we still made the trip since she was in good spirits and the weather was unbelievably beautiful. I love that we are finally doing all of the things that Philip and I talked about doing this time last year, when we were pregnant. I have been busy with our Goody Sales & Marketing Conference this week and it reminded me that it was right around this time last year that we had finally announced to everyone that we were expecting (it was made public to everyone at work during this same conference last Fall), and we were preparing for life to change forever. And now that it has, I couldn't be more excited to be doing all of the things that we said we would do. It's finally Fall, and we are going to soak up every minute of it!

Starting off the afternoon with a family shot outside of the corn maze!

Our little scarecrow!

A quick family shot in the pumpkin patch...Kinsley had little interest in the camera with all those big orange things lying around!

Our giggling little girl with her daddy!

Picking out a pumpkin with mama!

Kinsley's first encounter with a billy goat...she probably thought it was a mini "Hunter."

I loved this..."How tall this Fall?"

Sooooo big!

Giving the "OK" for mommy's pumpkin.

Mom, what's Indian Corn?

Philip making his final walk through the pumpkin patch before we all decided on the one we would take home.

On the way to the car. And you will notice that Philip's is the bigger one, then mine is the middle size, and Kinsley's is the baby pumpkin...too cute.

On the way home...sweet little baby was all tuckered out.

At home...daddy's, mommy's, and Kinsley's pumpkins all together on the front porch.