Hiking & Pumpkin Patch

We took advantage of a beautiful Saturday a few weeks ago and decided to go on a little family hike at nearby Garden of the Gods. Such a beautiful place! Although the sun was out - it was really windy. I think so far this is my only major complaint about this place - there seems to be tons of wind in Colorado Springs.

Anyway - it was a beautiful hike/walk and we went to the nearby visitors center afterwards.





And then last Saturday we decided to go to Wishing Star Farm to their pumpkin patch. They had a little bullet train for kids to ride on, buckets full of dried corn, giant tires to climb on, a 100 ft gorge slide, a petting farm, and of course pumpkins to pick! While it was fun - it was SUPER windy and that translated into us being really cold. We hurried through the activities, grabbed our pumpkins and hightailed it out of there. I had the girls in matching outfits but you can't tell since we had to put jackets on fast! And of course trying to get a picture of the two girls both looking at me and smiling is nearly impossible.







And then just for fun - Chloe is having a hard time getting used to our crazy schedule lately: