It was a beautiful fall weekend. It was one of those days that makes you brag about living in Colorado. Our October calender is so crazy busy that I decided this was the weekend to get Jace to a pumpkin patch. A quick search online told me that most of the local patches don't open till the 10th. Luckily the Four Mile House Historic Park had their fall event scheduled for Oct. 3 & 4. We were making our plans when my parents called on Friday to say they were coming up for a quick visit before corn harvest gets started. The weekend came together nicely. Saturday, after Jace's nap, we all went down to Cherry Creek and had a delicious lunch at the Cherry Cricket. This awesome burger joint has been around forever and was recently featured on Man Vs. Food. If you haven't seen Man Vs. Food, check it out. The host visits cool, down to earth, restaurants around the country. He describes the food in a way that makes you really want to go order it right now then he takes a food challenge. You know, the challenge on the menu that says you have to eat a crazy amount of the specialty item in X amount of time. This guy does it! It is weird but strangely compelling to watch. He does not always "win" hence the title Man Vs. Food. Anyway, the Cherry Cricket is great and we enjoyed the burgers.
After our late lunch we just had an hour to check out the festival at Four Mile House. It would have been nice to have more time but it was still enjoyable. 
There were bales of straw set out and kids stuffing their own scarecrows. Jace dove right in to the piles of straw and quickly found himself in the middle of a straw throwing fight that some older boys were having. Grandma Joy picked as much of the straw out of his hair as she could. I found straw in his diaper later. There was caramel sauce heating over a campfire and being served drizzled over apple slices. (to bad we were all stuffed from the burgers) There were horse drawn wagons taking families for rides around the perimeter. There was a pumpkin patch. It was actually just a fenced off field full of pumpkins that were hauled in from somewhere else but it made for some cute photos.
There were bales of straw set out and kids stuffing their own scarecrows. Jace dove right in to the piles of straw and quickly found himself in the middle of a straw throwing fight that some older boys were having. Grandma Joy picked as much of the straw out of his hair as she could. I found straw in his diaper later. There was caramel sauce heating over a campfire and being served drizzled over apple slices. (to bad we were all stuffed from the burgers) There were horse drawn wagons taking families for rides around the perimeter. There was a pumpkin patch. It was actually just a fenced off field full of pumpkins that were hauled in from somewhere else but it made for some cute photos.
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