Pumpkin Picking 2010

In an effort to make San Diego have a season, we went to the Bates Nut Farm with Bobby and Shelly. Although it was great to do a 'fall' activity, doing in 90 degree heat kind of took away from the experience.

There was much deliberation about what made the perfect carving pumpkin, but in the end we each picked our own, along with a few smaller pumpkins and gourds for decoration.

There had been a scarecrow building contest the day before and our favorite entire were the Mythbusters!

Being the big kids that we are, we all had to take turns pushing each other around in the wheel barrow.

Miramar Airshow

In keeping the military base theme...two weeks later we were at the Miramar Airshow with the Lumpkins again. All of the boys, including the grown-up ones, were drooling over all of the planes and performers. The finale was of course the Blue Angels, which never gets old no matter how many times I have seen them. It is amazing how close they can fly those jets, and with such precision.

Connor's favorite perch during the show was my shoulders. He had picked out his toy airplane earlier in the day and kept holding it up every time a plane flew overhead.

...Happy Boys!!!!

Tony spent an entire day sewing all of the patches on Connor's aviator so he could have it during the show.

North Island Speed Weeks

Sorry it has been a while since our last post. I'll try to pick up my share of the posting so Trine doesn't always have to do it.

This summer we joined to the Lumpkins at the North Island Speed Weeks. It is the one time each year that they close down the Naval Airstation and let the public drive onto the taxiways for a week of car racing. Chevy was offering rides in their new Corvette's so of course I couldn't resist. The course was relatively short but it was plenty windy which made it fun.

Here are all the Lumpkin men watching the classic Mustang races while enjoying some lemonade. Tony has gotten pretty good at carrying all the boys at the same time.

A Shelby for Shelby...Trine insisted that we take this picture for her sis.

Even Connor found a ride that he could enjoy.