A Beautiful Saturday in October

Yesterday’s weather was amazing! I mean truly amazing and best of all, it was Saturday! Nya and I are both trying to fight off our colds, but yesterday was too beautiful to waste the day in the house. The first place we went was to the pumpkin patch at Queen Anne Farm (http://queenannefarm.com) in Mitchellville. It was really quaint.

Not as big as Clark’s Elioak Farm (http://clarklandfarm.com) in Howard County, but still very cute. They offer hayrides around the pumpkin patch for just $1.50. Since daddy wasn’t with us, we opted not to take the hayride since that is something that we like to do with him. Nya had a great time picking out our pumpkins. She chose three and did a great job of helping me lift them into the wagon.

After we picked our pumpkins, we checked out their selection of apples-only $0.59/pound! Nya couldn’t wait to try one. Today I plan to make a batch of apple crisp and we should have enough apples left over for lunches this week.

After we left the pumpkin patch, we headed over to the new Dutch Market Village in Upper Marlboro. It was packed as they always are. They offer the usual selection of fresh meats, fresh produce, candies, nuts, baked goods, amazing pretzels, and furniture. Since it was so busy and my Nay-bird was a little cranky, we only purchased a pound of mini-carrots. Nya was so excited to have her favorite vegetable. She couldn’t wait to open them up in the car. Boy, they were really sweet, too.

  
At this point, I wasn’t sure whether or not we should head over to Montpelier farm (http://montpelierfarms.com) in Upper Marlboro. It looks like a really cool place. They charge $10 for adults, $8 for kids and are free for those 2 and under. The admission price includes lots of different activities such as the hayride, corn maze, kids corral and more. Activities such as the moon bounce are an additional fee. I opted to forgo this farm for the day and hope we can get there before Halloween.

My girl and I continued on with our errands at a few stores. I am planning to make her a tutu within the next week and when I do, pics will be posted. It looks really easy from what I have read online. So we went to Hancock Fabrics where we purchased some tulle, elastic, and sewing scissors. Nya helped me pick the tulle colors. She chose red and yellow. I think it will turn out nice.

Once we finished up at the fabric store, we visited the Halloween store. Nya is at an age where Halloween is definitely a little scary for her. She could not stop staring at the Freddy Krueger character. I must admit that he gave me the creeps as well.

Finally, we finished up our day at the new BJ’s. Nya was happy because they offered the carts with the car attachments for kids.

I was hoping to crash last night. I slept well for a while, but Nya woke me up with her coughing around 3:30 and I haven’t been able to go back to sleep since….