{"id":3470,"date":"2012-10-15T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2016-09-27T11:27:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T16:27:59","slug":"weekend-shenanigans-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3470","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8185\/8087676993_3a4bf9cf35_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0372\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8473\/8087668319_8ee04d5017_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0236\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8183\/8087668809_b2ce280aee_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0242\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8051\/8087669310_8cb3000775_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0258\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed such a busy but fantastic weekend. It was one of those jam-packed, live-your-life-to-the-fullest types of times that revolved around deciding what we wanted to do at the last minute, and then just going for it (sprinkled with a dash of laundry, a good dose of cooking and baking, and a little bit of fun with some extended family at the pumpkin patch&#8211; with more photos of that trip coming tomorrow).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8046\/8087669751_91d1b48b0a_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0272\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8327\/8087670618_e859720ed5_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0298\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8051\/8087674959_28b00731bf_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0362\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I really noticed this weekend that the colors in our trees have suddenly popped. We celebrated by spending most of the weekend outdoors; I took the boys to breakfast by myself on Saturday while Andrew ran 21 miles (!) before we headed to the pumpkin patch to meet up with Andrew&#8217;s cousin and her newly-expanded family of five.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8185\/8087634934_fe00826c04_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0113\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8184\/8087630911_af30a332e9_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0054\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8052\/8087631823_51a7d59ef7_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0064\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8472\/8087630115_29851e863b_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0048\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8045\/8087629797_998e63482b_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0037\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The boys were joyful as they played in the back yard and explored fall nature (again, more on that coming soon) and even discovered a full-grown praying mantis amidst our mums, most likely one from our egg sack last spring!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8184\/8087678461_7ec2416982_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0380\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8333\/8087677371_5c4702881c_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8334\/8087677673_2eeda07273_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0377\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8187\/8087678166_ea55096a69_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0378\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday we strolled down <a href=\"http:\/\/explorestlouis.com\/things-to-do\/neighborhoods\/cherokee-street\/\">Cherokee Street<\/a> enjoying warm sunshine and coffee and window shopping (we are always out too early for stores other than coffee shops to be open on Sundays). Then I took Emil consignment store shopping (we scored a winter coat for Milo, two sweaters, and a pair of boots for Oliver since his Blunnies already met a terrible demise this weekend when we realized that the sole of one boot had completely fallen off and was nowhere to be found)! Then Andrew took the big boys to a preschool event at a nearby playground while I stayed back, put Emil down for a nap, and cooked up a storm. The house was quiet for a couple of hours, and filled with delicious smells that wafted out through our open back door with the fall breeze. Just the perfect, perfect weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8043\/8087676240_665506a6aa_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0369\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have really been enjoying just being together as a family. I feel like the luckiest, most loved lady in the world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We enjoyed such a busy but fantastic weekend. It was one of those jam-packed, live-your-life-to-the-fullest types of times that revolved around deciding what we wanted to do at the last minute, and then just going for it (sprinkled with a dash of laundry, a good dose of cooking and baking, and a little bit of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3470\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend Shenanigans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motherhood","category-stlouis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12384,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions\/12384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}