Pumpkin festival :)

We've been wanting to go to this festival for the last few years, but because of schedules/weather/etc. we never made it out. I absolutely adore fall, so living in Florida is a bit rough - palm trees don't have leaves that change color, there's no crisp autumn air, the days of bundling up for Halloween parties/bar hopping/trick-or-treating don't exist. But this year we were determined to catch the spirit of Florida fall and planned to go to a smaller pumpkin festival nearby, but when Tim's employer gave out free tickets to the Hunsader Farms Pumpkin Festival, we decided we'd make the trek :)

I had a rough weekend, and it didn't exactly shock me when we were 10 minutes from the festival and I realized I'd left both of our cameras on our dining room table. Normally I'd throw our small point-and-shoot in the diaper bag, but since I was taking both cameras I figured I'd just keep them together in my camera bag. And then left it at home.

I was heartbroken but thankful for my cell phone camera - and it was nice to enjoy the day without really worrying about perfect photos ops. We're going to hit up the smaller festival next weekend to snag some must-take photos, but today was all about enjoying the amazing weather, eating festival food and taking advantage of my blunder to focus on our time as a family. We went on a hayride, bought a pumpkin, ate pumpkin ice cream and root beer floats, checked out the petting zoo, watched some fun musical acts, stopped by a circus show and met up with some friends.

Here are the few photos I took with my phone:

This shiny tractor pulled us during the hayride.

Watching the kids.

Big girl!

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