Perfect Fall Weekend

After two dreary, rainy days, we had the perfect fall weekend here in St. Louis and we took full advantage of the beautiful weather. Saturday morning we got up early to go to the Autism Speaks walk in Forest Park. As you can see from the picture above, it was a beautiful day. Before the walk we wandered around the exhibits and activities sponsored by the walk. Millie enjoyed people watching, the blow-up slide and the beautiful Clydesdale. Merrill enjoyed a nice long nap snuggled up with me.


Millie and Scott checking out the slide ...

Millie was VERY excited to go down the slide!






The Clydesdale's name was Scott!

Merrill sleeping through it all :).

Lots of people turned out for the walk.

After the walk we headed home for lunch and naps, then LoLo came back over to go to the Fall Festival in downtown Kirkwood. We walked to downtown and enjoyed playing on the playground near the Farmer's Market, perusing the market goods, and walking through a small art fair. We topped the day off with a great pot of white chicken chili that had been simmering on the stove all day. Fabulous!

We started out early again on Sunday morning and headed over to Illinois to Eckert's Farm for some apple and pumpkin picking. The tractor ride out to the orchards was a bit chilly, but overall, it was perfect apple picking weather. Millie really enjoyed picking and taste testing all the apples and once again, Merrill enjoyed a nap in the crisp clean air. It was really nice because the Fuji apple trees were really small so Millie could easily touch the apples and help to pick them. She thought that was pretty great. We picked out some great pumpkins (from the lot, not the patch -- that would have required another tractor ride...) and have plans to have a pumpkin carving party with LoLo and Jason and hopefully Brandon too sometime in the next week or two. Until then the pumpkins are safely hiding in the garage. (In both Connecticut and Michigan we had pumpkin eating squirrels, we're not taking any chances this time around!)








After apple picking we had a nice lunch of soup, salads and sandwiches at St. Louis Bread Co. Merrill finally had a chance to get in on the fun!


September and October have been filled with a lot of great weekends and I hope to get a chance to go back and post on all the previous ones. We certainly manage to stay busy here -- the weeks fly by and the weekends go even faster. It's hard to believe that Merrill turned 3 months old this week! We head to the Dr. tomorrow morning for shots so we'll get to see how much she has grown. She is definitely growing sweeter every day! It's even harder to believe that Millie will be turning 2 (or 2 minutes if you ask her...) in just a couple of weeks.

Hope your weekend was filled with fall fun too!