Fall Fun Weekend

To us, the fall means football, pumpkins, family, and friends.  The first week of October, we did our best to experience all of those things in a single weekend.  It was very fun, totally exhausting, and we wouldn't have changed a thing!

We started off the weekend at Villanova for our first football game there (and hey- it's only taken me 10 years working there to finally get to a game).  My cousin Bobby is a freshman at 'Nova and earned a spot on the team, so what better time to go support the Wildcats!  Nana and Grandpa came for the day, and we were excited to tailgate with my Uncle John and cousin Gretchen, her husband Robert, and their other son Christian (Bobby's brother).

Liam and Uncle John

Christian, me, Gretchen, and Nana

Christian and Liam playing catch. Liam was so thrilled to play with a "big kid"!

Nice catch, Liam!

Juice box break!

Nap break!

It was a hot day (surprisingly so for early October), but it was a really exciting game.  After a few nail biters, the Wildcats beat William and Mary!  Go Wildcats!

Afterwards, we waited outside the locker room to see Bobby in his uniform and congratulate him on the team's victory.  When Liam first saw Bobby, he looked up at him in awe and said, "Whoa... you're like a real college football player."  

Looking forward to cheering Bobby on over the next few years!  I think he's got some serious fans.

Later that night, I took my sunburned self to join Cathleen at a fundraiser for her parish school: designer handbag bingo.   Ladies, have you heard of this?!  This is like a thing now.  We didn't win anything, but it was crazy and hysterical, and we are so definitely doing that again!

On Sunday after church, we headed over to Jersey to visit Uncle Tim and Aunt Jackie for a gorgeous fall day picking apples and pumpkins.  There is an awesome farm close to their house that had every fun fall thing we could think of!

Colin, Liam, Genevieve, and Joergen.  LOVE!

All aboard the hayride!

Liam just loves to hold his baby cousin!

 First stop: the apple orchards.

"This way, Colin!"

Joergen putting an apple into his sack

Liam snagging one from a high branch

And then it was off to the pumpkin patch!

"How about this one?"

"I'm thinking this one."

"No, this one!"

"What do you think, Genevieve and Uncle Tim?"

 We couldn't decide either, so we got them all :)

After a busy and very fun afternoon at the farm, Aunt Jackie made us a yummy dinner back at their house, complete with musical selections from these guys:

I really couldn't have imagined a more perfect fall weekend!