I go see pumpkins!

Chris, Kate and I went to visit family in Prescott this weekend. For those of you following along I mentioned that I had connected with my biological father. He has a sister in Prescott, which means Kate and I have an aunt. Aunt Raquel along with her husband Steve and two kids, Maria and Daniel, live in Prescott. We were lucky enough to escape the Yuma heat this past Columbus Day weekend. Can you believe I still have to say get away from the heat when it is October in Yuma? Anyhow, we made a little getaway and enjoyed cool weather and visit with our new members of the family! I should mention that poor Kate got carsick ten minutes before we got to Aunt Raquel's. We took the back way and the road was a bit too winding for Kate's poor stomach. So we opted to take the way through Phoenix on the way home.

We took Kate to Freeman Farms where they have a pumpkin patch. They also had "kid shit" to do as one of our friends put it. Kate seemed to enjoy the day with her cousins, which she loved saying over and over again...I go see cousins? I play with cousins? They rode the merry-go-round, rode a mini-train, went on a hay ride, sat on a tractor, visited the petting zoo and walked through a corn maze. And of course sat in a pumpkin patch to take pictures! It was great fun and hope to do it again next year!








Kate did so well traveling in the car for a long period of time, each way. Chris would argue otherwise, but she only had one fit! It was so bad we had to pull over while in Phoenix to settle her down. What happened? Who knows? All I know is that we gave her the donut that fell on the floor and some juice and put on Dora on the iPad and she was good to go.



She also got along so well with her cousins. Kate was so cute always asking for her cousins and looking for them all over the house. I am glad we made the trip and hope Kate grows up close to her cousins just as I did with mine.