Blessington Farms

 Sorry for the picture overload on this post, but I'm a sucker for fall time pictures!  We had so much fun at Blessington Farms, we went with our ward playgroup, and the kids just loved playing with each other at the farm.  The weather was on the warmer side, but luckily they have lots of shade.  Couldn't ask for a more perfect fall activity.

Tanner loved all the white pumpkins.

 This reminded me of the ol wheel at the Layton Park growing up.

 The slides were a hit!

 Logan was obsessed with this little tractor.  It was broken so mom had to push him around the track. It got really tiring, but made for one happy boy.

 Snowcones to the rescue on a warm fall afternoon!  

 Logan was in heaven!

 Tanner was pretty popular with all the boys.  They all wanted to play with him!

Hay ride time!

 the mommas (whats left anyway we were the crazy ones who lasted all day) on the hay ride

at the end of the day we finally picked our pumpkins

Such a fun time of year! 

Natural Bridge Cavern

The weekend before school started we wanted one last getaway as a family to say farewell to summer.  We decided to go to the Natural Bridge Caverns just outside San Antonio.  It was a fun little adventure and the boys thought it was so cool.  The caverns reminded me of Mount Timpanogos cave, but instead of hiking up a mountain we hiked down into the cave.  It had lots of stalagmites and stalactites from years of rain water dripping into the caverns.

 Beneath this natural bridge was the cavern (hence the name) 

 walking down into the belly of the beast.

 this one looked like melted wax to me

 the chandelier 

 the trail winding through the cavern

After our tour of the cavern we went winning for gems.

 we found some fools gold!

 showing off our treasures

Logan just loved the train

As we were leaving Carson said he wanted to mine for gold so he could help the Olympics by making the gold medals (the 2016 Rio Olympics were going on during this time).  Funny kid.

Our hotel was right on the River walk in San Antonio so we took a lovely evening stroll along the river.

this goofy kid.  I just love him.

and of course we couldn't be this close and not see the Alamo.

It was a perfect weekend getaway.  A change to have some fun together and to explore some new sights of Texas, before life gets crazy with school starting back up.