Christmas Tree Farm

On December 1st we made our way to a local Christmas tree farm to find the perfect tree for the holiday season. It was FREEZING, but that didn't stop us from having fun. Maisie was such a happy girl. Not only was it impossible to get a picture of her actually looking at the camera, but in 90% of the pictures she's just a motion blur. The girl  just couldn't resist the temptation of all the muddy puddles.

Ladybugs

Last weekend, on a warm Sunday (it got up to 70 in November!) Austin found a ladybug on my cardigan and handed it to Maisie. She was so excited as she gently poked and held the little bug. After a few minutes another ladybug landed on Austin's back so we gave that one to Maisie as well and let me tell you, she was twice as excited. In the last picture she's yelling "TWO LADYBUGS!!"

We are loving all the wonder and excitement that's been coming out of little Maisie lately. She is such a joyous little spirit that makes us so proud every day.

In the car...

Maisie became super slaphappy while we were driving to who knows where. She was saying incredibly silly things. For example, she saw a bunch of geese in a field and than proceeded to say she wanted to eat them all (should i be worried?). Then the giggle fit began as she kept repeating "Eat the geese? Yummy geese!" 

Anyway, Austin keeps his phone on a GPS holder thing in the middle of the car console which is perfectly centered in front of Maisie, so Austin was trying to take a no hands video of her evil laugh, but he instead took this picture...

Ever wondered what the Lee family looks like while driving in the car?
Well there you have it.

Excuse the no makeup and messy mom hair but that's how I roll 90% of the time.

And Maisie's face? Pure silliness.

Puddle Jumping

We couldn't find Maisie any rain boots her size (size 5- yes she inherited my itty bitty feet) so we had to order some online. Well they finally came, on a perfectly rainy day (did I just really say that?) so we took them for a test spin... puddle jumping of course!

What do we have here?

A worm! Oh the excitement!

Pumpkins

The fruits of our labor...

Pumpkins are technically fruit right?

Maisie has been into Monsters Inc lately, so Austin made her a Mike Wazowski pumpkin. Also, how sweet is the Oogy Boogy Man from Nightmare Before Christmas? And Snoopy!? Man, Austin really kicked my butt at pumpkin carving this year! 

Maybe next year I'll show him up.

E.Z. Orchards

A couple days before Halloween we took Maisie to another local pumpkin patch to pick out a few more pumpkins to carve. It was supposed to rain, but lucky for us the weather men were wrong (which surprisingly happens often enough despite the consistant gloomy weather here). We jumped on the opportunity of the somewhat sunny weather and let Maisie explore the farm.

A few of Maisie's favorite things about the pumpkin patch:

1) Big pumpkins and baby pumpkins. Ok, maybe just pumpkins in general.

2) The rubber ducky race.

3) The baby calf and snorting/squealing piglets.

4) Opening an ear of corn- removing the husk and finding out what was inside. She's on a corn kick as of lately.

5) Warm pumpkin spice doughnuts and fresh apple cider. Enough said right?