On Saturday, Mike, Colin and I met up with my parents and Tim and Leah to go apple picking. The weather was far from ideal but we {attempted to} bundle up forgoing my vision of cute pictures with coordinating outfits for warmth. We took a crazy amount of pictures which may have to be uploaded over a few days. Today's posts ... pre-picking pictures.

Colin is at such a fun age especially for arts and crafts. I've been trying to do projects so it's more than just coloring.
I cut construction paper in the shape of a pumpkin and then cut out a mouth, nose and eyes which Colin stuck to the pumpkin.
Finished project without Colin since all he wanted to do was rip off the pieces and put them back on.
Colin's interpretation of a pig. (The white octagon is a magnet)

And now my current favorite ... On our walk yesterday aside from picking up sticks, which he used as swords of course, Colin also picked up a bunch of pretty leaves. Together we made this ...

{Colin kissing Mike buh-bye before Mike left for the Tigers game}

Last week we took Colin back to SpringGrove for a couple of cute fall pictures. The park was packed with people who had the exact same idea. We found a couple great spots and waited our turn. And then we had this ...

and then a little of this

and while we never really got a good shot, we had a few ok ones...