One of my favorite things to do every Fall is to go to the pumpkin patch, pick pumpkins and take pictures. I honestly don't know why I enjoy it so much. Maybe it's a tradition that I want to have with the boys, maybe it's the fact that I love to go out and buy "Fallish" clothes and dress the boys up and try to get some good pictures, or it could be that going to the pumpkin patch makes it 'feel' like Fall around here. You see, we live in the Houston area and as of today (October 23) my AC is running and the boys are in shorts. We don't ever seem to get a break from the heat! So maybe it's getting the boys in fall colors and going to the pumpkin patch that makes me forget about the heat for a while and enjoy the Fall season, even when we don't have cooler temps to go with it.

 

   But, as you know, I have 3 boys and this year, I came to realization that this may be our last year to get the boys in something nice and try to get a good shot of all three at the pumpkin patch. Now, I am not saying we won't ever go back. The boys love pulling the wagons, picking up the biggest pumpkins they can find and climbing the hay bales, it's just the getting in something else besides your underwear and superhero tshirt and having to pose for pictures that drives them crazy.

 

   Before we were even out the door, my two oldest were in fits about having to wear the shirts I had picked out. Thinking to myself, "This is NOT going to be fun," I put an entire thing of tic tacs in my pocket and off we went.

 

  As you can see in the picture below, this pretty much summed up all their attitudes about having to sit for pictures.....

 It took a little while to get started because there were a lot of people moms there with their kids trying to get pictures and we just had to time it to where a large semi was unloading a ton of pumpkins, so that was pretty distracting.

 

 Okay, getting a little better....

   Had to pull out the tic tacs to get Nathan to look at me. As you can see, he is wanting one.

   Then they began to go from extremely bored...

   To, faking smiles just so we can be done and get the Sonic drink that I ended up having to bribe them with.....

   To Nathan being so annoyed with this entire day that he was willing to hitch hike his way home.

   But in the end, I was able to get a descent snap shot of each individual boy...

 

   And I was able to capture this during our time at the pumpkin patch. Not too shabby, I guess.

....Until next year's pumpkin patch, oh wait, never mind!