PattisBlessedFamily: Fall Catch Up

I love Fall! We have a had a busy one so far so I am going to try to catch up on a few fun things that we have been doing to celebrate this time of the year. It's been so bittersweet this year after losing my dad but we have been trying to keep with as much "normalcy" as we can and continue some of the fun Fall traditions that we have. The first....my favorite place in Nebraska.....Nebraska City!! I love that place so much. I have fond memories of going there as a little girl with my family to see the Arbor Day Lodge. It is just the cutest little place and it's something I look forward to all year. This year we went on a Sunday after church. We usually do the Tree Farm Adventure with the kids but this year opted to not do it because of time constraints and crowds. So we ended up just having some apple treats and then did something different and took a carriage ride through the park which we had never done before and then went to Kimmel Orchard to pick apples. The carriage ride was fun! We took the kids last year for the first time and did a carriage ride in the Old Market on Thanksgiving night and had so much fun that we decided to make it an annual tradition (not on Thanksgiving night---way too crowded!! But another night during the holiday season). So it was a fun surprise to have the carriage ride in Nebraska City. We also had fun picking apples at the orchard. We really had to dig to find some because of the bad apple season with the major heat wave over the summer and early Spring last year (not that I'm complaining because I am praying for another winter like last year!). Here are some pics from our afternoon in NE City....