Pumpkin Patch

A few weekends ago, we took the kids to a local pumpkin patch to ride some rides, pet some animals and pick out a pumpkin to carve for Halloween.

Zach loved the little bunny rabbits and the swings were definitely his favorite ride.

Fun all around and just in time for Halloween!

Grass!!

While those who did not grow up in a desert don't understand this, fall is the time we desert dwellers are finally able to spend some good quality time outside.

Beka was too young to play outside when summer hit and so now she's finding out all about the wonders of the outdoors...

Like grass..

and swings..

Zach, a lifelong lover of the outdoors has been enjoying our beautiful weather as well

Yeah for fall!! :-)

Tractor

Who doesn't love a ride on a tractor?

A Day At the Farm

Nothing feels more like fall than visiting a farm and picking some apples.

So.. at the end of September that's just what we did.

We drove over to Murray Family Farms near Bakersfield and had a great day picking apples, jumping on their giant air 'pillow', petting animals and racing water ducks.

So much fun.  Will definitely have to do it again next year.

Kart Races

In what is becoming an annual Reed Family tradition, we went to the Go Kart Races in Downtown Lancaster in mid-September.

This year though.. Zach was big enough to get to actually RIDE on a Go-Kart.  He was definitely excited!!

Let's Go Fly a Kite!!

Once Zach got kite fever, there was just no turning back.

He pestered us until we went out back on a crazy windy day and flew Dad's kite.. which he couldn't actually fly because the wind would have picked him right up and he taken him away...

Monterey - Part 2

We went up to Monterey over Labor Day weekend just to 'get away from it all' for a while.

We went to the aquarium, did some shopping in Gilroy and even hit a couple of estate sales in Pebble Beach.

However, the highlight of the entire trip -- at least according to Zach -- was flying kites.  The wind up there is perfect and the weather was so beautiful that we spent every afternoon watching his 'Cars' kite fly high above our heads.  His new favorite song (which can be heard pretty much any day)?  "Let's Go Fly a Kite!"  :-)

Zach and his new favorite activity

Daddy and Crew at Lone Cyprus in Pebble Beach