Autumn day trippin'...

This October has blessed us with amazing weather the last few weeks, nothing but sunshine and warm temperatures. Our family time is precious and rare these days and I have had a major urge to get out and enjoy the weather while it is so glorious. Ben is so sweet to agree to my spontaneous road trips despite having to travel so far for work during the week.

This weekend we traveled east along the Columbia River on Saturday for a visit to my new favorite thrift store to track down some missing element of our Halloween costumes, and a trip to an off the beaten path pumpkin patch with no crowds and a free corn maze.

On Sunday we headed west to a beautiful park in the Columbia River Gorge near the bridge of the gods. We got a close look of the river boats and walked out to a small island in the river with an amazing view. 

When our time together is so rare it is even harder to stay home and tackle chores and paperwork and costume orders. Lately we have been blowing it all of to just hang out and have fun. Which is fun at the moment but Sunday evenings are always a mad scramble to catch up on all the things we ignored all weekend, which is not so fun. Our carefree weekends make Mondays even harder. I sure wish we could be together as family more than two days a week it would take a little pressure off the weekends.

 

 

 

The Fruit Loop Tour (part one: a new patch)

On Sunday my family and I took a day trip along the Fruit Loop Tour near Mt Hood. I had been waiting weeks for good sunny weather with clear skies, if we were going to be that close to the mountain, I wanted to be able to see it(and take a billion pictures of it). The weather was warm sunny and beautiful and it couldn't have been nicer weather for a scenic drive and visits to several farms in Hood River County.
I took many many photos and would love to share as many as possible so I am just going to break my posts down into the different farms that we visited. Our first stop was the pumpkin patch at Rasmussen Farms. It was fun and kind of a relief not to have to take the bumpy hay ride we usually endure to get to our old trusty patch, and it was much less crowed with the city being much farther away, even on a Sunday.

Pumpkin Patch Hat

I had the urge to knit Solomon a hat for visiting the pumpkin patch this year. Pumpkin hats are super cute, but I wanted him to have a hat that he could wear all winter and not look like he is wearing a Halloween hat in January. So I made up this little pointy hat in stripes of pumpkin colors. It only took me a few hours one night to knit it up, simple and fast. I think he can get away with wearing it all year, it matches his winter fleece. But it sure looked cute at the Pumpkin Patch!

A trip to the pumpkin patch...

On the pumpkin hunt

Yah, we scored some wierd ones.