Weekend Wrap-Up, Part III

On Monday the kids didn't have school and Kent took a much deserved day off.  Kent never takes a day off, and I know he did it as much for me and my fun-bullying ways as he did for himself.

Sunday night I started in with ideas: What do you want to do? Where should we go? Do you just want to hang here? Let's go out to eat or should I pack a picnic? The barrage of questions was almost enough to make Kent consider not taking the day off. :) We finally settled on starting at the apple orchard then just seeing where the rest of the day took us.  I am so thankful for a husband who is on the same page as me when it comes to getting up and around early.  I'm pretty sure we were the first ones at the orchard which was awesome- none of the kids' favorite things to do there were crowded at all.

Kase loved the corn pool.  Or not so much. 

In this picture you'll notice Kent coming up fast on Kael.

Here you'll notice Kent celebrating his victory.  Heaven forbid we let the kids win. ;)

I had, in fact, packed a picnic lunch since I wasn't totally sure where we were going to end up for the day.  So after the orchard we ate our picnic lunch then headed to Hickory Park for ice cream sundaes.  While we were in Ames, we stopped in and visited my mother-in-law at work.

Everyone was still happy and the day was still (fairly) young so we headed to The Ledges!!! Oh my word it is just beautiful there.  If you haven't been yet this fall- get there! The kids had a blast hiking and it was the perfect afternoon to be there.  We finished our afternoon sitting at a picnic table down in the Ledges, eating Cheetos, talking about our favorite parts of the day.  My sweet Kylee summed it up pretty well, "You know it's been a good day if it ends with a Cheeto picnic."

It was one of those days that I hope I remember forever. *Sigh.* I love fall.