Let's Go Pumpkin Picking!

OK, so we didn't go and actually pick the pumpkins off the vine but we did "pick" a pumpkin for Isabelle to take home after visiting our local pumpkin patch yesterday.

Izzy in a sea of pumpkins at Lombardi RanchIsabelle's Godmother and one of our best friends, April, and I started talking about going out to our local pumpkin patch/farm a few weeks back and with all of our upcoming crazy schedules between work, fundraisers, business trips and life in general, amazingly this day worked for all of us :)

The Owston Family

So with the Summer heat finally subsiding and a gentle breeze blowing, yesterday was a perfect Fall morning for the Price Family, Granny Aston (April's Mom), the Owston's and Grandmama to head out to Lombari Ranch (half of this ranch was actually burned down 2 years ago when we had our big fires). And can I just tell you, as close as you can get to 9am is the BEST time to go there! We arrived shortly after they opened and hardly anyone was there so we actually got pictures with pumpkins and/or corn fields in the background and not a bunch of passerbyers.

The "Price-crow" Family

We walked around for about an hour and a half being tourists and taking every photo opportunity we could! It was so much fun. Isabelle, Roxy and Jazzy were checking out everything. We saw a cow, pigs, a lama, chickens, horses and all kinds of other farm "mamimals".

Papa and Izzy

Mama and Izzy in jailIsabelle played in the big play yard pumpkins, the jails and the police van and climbed up and down every haystack she could get to. She checked out as many pumpkins as she could and the last one she grabbed and actually carried was the one we took home.

Izzy driving the Police vanThe Price Family; Jazzy, JP, Roxy and April

An explanation for the next 3 pics: Isabelle got the biggest kick out of the little squashes and gourds that were all around the farm. When we first walked in, there was a tractor tire full of them so I picked one up and held it to my ear and started talking into it like it was a phone. After about an hour of being there, Isabelle found another tire full of goodies, picked up some squash, put them up to her ears and said "hi" then looked at us and laughed.

There was music playing near the front of the ranch and when finally made our way back up there to head home. Isabelle went out onto the dance floor with Grandmama and started shaking her thing. She did not want to leave! But after about 5 minutes of dancing with or without someone else, I had to pick her up and carry her off the dance floor as she tried her hardest to wiggle her way out of my arms. Music is strong in that little one's soul but Mama's grip is stronger :)

The Ladies...April, Jazzy, Grandmama (Mom), Isabelle, Me, Roxy and Granny Aston (Sharon)Picking a pumpkinHAPPY FALL Y'ALL!