You know fall has arrived when you drive down the street and see pumpkins smashed all over the place, we're starting to wonder when we are going to get the first substantial snow and the boat goes into storage for the season. Just the other day we were out for a walk and the smell of fall was in the air and leaves were everywhere...pretty sweet. We're never too sure about the change of seasons when they first start because it seems like we just got used to the season and it changes, but then you get all the great colors of fall and the first snow is always exciting.
Last weekend we went out to the pumpkin patch with Blake and wandered through the fields of pumpkins, ran around on the hay bails and checked out the farm animals. Blake thought it was pretty awesome. It was pretty fun...i don't think i've been to a big pumpkin patch quite this large before...it was fun (even it it did take us like 30 minutes to get out of there because the pumpkin patch traffic was so crazy...dang).
We spent a nice day downtown at REI and walking around the park down there. It was a beautiful day...people were swimming in the river down there. Blake would have liked to and probably would have if we had let him :)
We have Blake already for Halloween...and he went to a costume birthday party for his buddies first birthday a few weeks ago. Only problem is he is growing so fast we're not sure he'll fit in the costume by Halloween, but at least he had a chance to wear it. He also got a couple treats from grammy for Halloween and was pretty excited about what he found in the box.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Lake Powell
Over this last weekend we were able to squeeze in a quick trip to Lake Powell with a few of the neighbors on our block. They had been talking to us about going out there since last summer, but our schedules hadn't worked until now. It's a pretty cool place. It's like being in a river in the grand canyon (which i suppose it is...just not quite to Grand Canyon). We met up with some of Abby's cousins there and it was Blake's first camping trip. So, we tackled his first camping trip in a place we hadn't been before...probably not a good idea in most cases, but it worked out well. We made our way down the river about 10 miles on Saturday to Annie's Canyon where we spent lunch in a cove of giant rocks. It's hard to imagine the size of them without seeing it, but it's pretty impressive. We met up with the neighbors on our way back...they came a little after us with some friends of there's.
Camping went good. Blake did great actually. We put him in dirty clothes and let him run around at the campsite. He thought it was pretty awesome. He would site down and just play in the dirt, then he would run around and try to eat rocks...good times.
Sunday we went and explored a canyon about 10 miles up the river where there's a hike known as the slot. Basically you boat in as far as you can, then you anchor down and hike the rest of the way and the canyon gets narrower and narrower the further you go. Pretty soon it is only like 4 feet wide and straight up for at least 50 feet. Pretty cool.
We got in some good end of the season wakeboarding and feel like we had a good end to the season. I think we're ready for the next season to start. Time to shut it down for the season and get ready for the next.
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