Gabe and Courtney's Fall Visit!

My last post was about our visit to Gabe and Courtney and this one is about their visit to us :) I did the first day of school post/end of summer post already so here we are in FALL! A fav season of mine...esp in MN. The colors are pretty and there are endless family fun activities to do. 

We ended Linnea and my first week of school at the final public outdoor movie. 

It was Paddington and boy was it cute! We were quite chilly and tired by the end but of course we stayed.

Linnea had her first soccer game of this fall season with Emma. Us parents had a great time watching together and the lil siblings had fun watching and the teammates had fun too :)

Gabe and Courtney and the kids met at our house for some pizza before heading to the Monarch Festival at Lake Nokomis. 

The kids did some crafts, held some caterpillars, wrote messages for the butterlfies for their journey to Mexico and went in a "cocoon"

The coolest thing we did though was tag a monarch and release it!

Our Monarch! I should check our number and see if it he's made it!

We played at the park for a bit before going to a childhood fav ice cream shop...

We used to live just a few blocks from here in Mpls so it was fun to go there and reminisce :)

We headed back to my parents for dinner with the Dwight's, the kids played a watched a movie and us adults I think just visited this time...no cards!

Sunday we went to a new Apple Orchard and playground before Gabe's headed back to Stevens Point. Erik and the boys met up with us as well. It was a beautiful orchard but didnt have as much for kids as other orchards do. They didnt seem to mind though. 

There was a real dog that looked like this stuffed one the girls are holding. Emmy was her name and she was very sweet. There were also chickens and new baby goats! The kids all put a name idea in for the goats. Im not sure if any of them won. I should check. 

We used these neat old wagons to pull some of the kids into the orchard!

We did a lil apple picking and then headed to play. 

Family picture time!

Next time we will go down the road to another apple orchard with a bit more to do, but overrall it was another fun weekend!