Ft Collins Pumpkin Patch

For Robby and Jill's 10th anniversary, we gave them the choice of a nights' stay in a hotel or a granite vanity - they chose the vanity!!

 

When Jill was down the last time, she had picked out the stone she wanted and since it's so far up there, we decided to go ahead and do both bathrooms with the stone - they really turned out nice and we loaded up the new pickup with both pieces and headed to Ft. Collins last weekend!

 

It was fun to ride in the new truck and try out all the gadgets - it took me a while to figure out the programming on the Sirrus radio but I finally did!!

 

Since Robby had a computer job to do on Saturday morning, the rest of us headed to the Pumpkin Patch - I guess we should have checked the weather a little better as we just wore jackets and when we got out there, we realized we really DID need another layer and some hats and mittens - it was DARN cold out!!

 

The pumpkin patch was held at a local farm and the best part about it was that it was FREE!!  I loved all the fall colors with the pumpkins, gourds and fall bounty!!

With coffee in hand, we decided to go ahead and do the hayride as one of our first things since there was NO line and it was only $1.00 apiece to ride - the wagons circled around the corn field and it was actually quite a long ride!

There was a cute hay maze for the kids and they loved running between the bales!

Huge farm tires made for a cute photo!

There were wagons available for you to take to the fields if you wanted to pick out your own pumpkin or pick some of the vegetables!  We didn't need it but Aleah and Parker had fun pulling it around for a while!

I LOVE these huge sunflowers!!

Nothing says fall better than a box full of gourds!!!  Doesn't Aleah look cute sitting with them?

They also had a small area with some farm animals and some play things for the kids to play on - by this time the sun had come out so we decided to sit at their picnic tables and eat our lunch that we had brought - food always tastes better outside!!

This wagon was all set up for pictures!!

After we arrived back at the house, the kids went down for naps and Glenn and Robby started in on the granite - they installed one Saturday afternoon and the other one on Sunday morning.  They had thought they would do tile back splash but then decided on granite back splash so now we must try and find some to match and get it fabricated for them!!

Football was on that evening so after an excellent turkey dinner, Jill and I headed to the basement to watch a movie that we both cried at!!

Jill and the kids and I did church Sunday morning while the guys worked and then during nap time, slipped away to do a little shopping.  We went to Maurice's at the mall to find some jeans for Jill - I have never been SO impressed with a store!!!  After holding what jeans we wanted to try on, a nice gal came over and asked our names and then said she would put our stuff in dressing rooms for us.   And when we were ready to try on, we went over to the rooms and our names were written on cute chalkboards on the doors to our dressing rooms!!  But that wasn't the best part!  After we had tried on and really didn't find the right fit, the sales gal came over and asked us what we needed and proceeded to bring us jeans after jeans to try on - it was wonderful!!!  She also suggested sizes and brands we probably would have never tried on and that's what we ended up buying - a great experience jean shopping and I will definitely go back there again!!

We left at the Broncos half time to head home and luckily traffic wasn't too bad so we made good time!!  Thanks Robby and Jill for a great weekend!!!