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Look at this wheelbarrow! Look at this giant cornucopia! Look at this epic pumpkin patch!

It’s all the magic of Farmer John’s pumpkin patch off of HWY 1 in Half Moon Bay. They sold us this whole wheelbarrow full of awesome stuff – including a wee precious bale of hay – for a mere $32. You honestly can’t beat that. They’ve got more varieties of pumpkins than I can even comprehend and it’s just a rock ‘n’ roll good time, folks.

Oh, deer. Shenanigans!

M hauling our booty, Kelly Alice pretending to love the beautiful California poppies when what she really wants is to brutally assault them, me on a big old tractor and more pinup-in-a-wheelbarrow-pushed-by-a-tomboy hotness. Let me just tell you that I’m right at home set up on that tractor. An old family friend used to put half a dozen of us kids up in the shovel of their tractor and drive us around a big old pond; the finale was when he pretended he was going to dunk us all in it. That was also where I crashed my first golf cart. WHOMP WHOMP. (That guy was a jerk. Obviously. Who does that?!)

Loverbird business in a giant cornucopia. You can kind of see how big it is up in the first collage. We took a sweet little family photo in there as well, and I bet you could fit like twice as many people in there if you really wanted to.

These were taken at the Harvest Festival in town. The cutie pie petting zoo was definitely a highlight of the day. I held two bunnies! All by myself! There were chickens and a wee baby rooster and chinchillas and goats and sweet little wonky tripod greyhounds for rescuin’. Our hearts all exploded and then mended themselves with every twitch of a bunny’s nose. Magical.

I can’t wait to go back this week! M’s playing hooky and we’re heading back to our usual pumpkin patches because we just can’t get enough.

Hope y’all had delightful weekends!

Love,

FFAF

Has it been awhile or has it been awhile, dear readers? While it’s true we returned late last Thursday night, we both headed right back to work on Friday, and it’s been a whirlwind weekend of readying the petite for summer camp and entertaining the MIL, who was sweet enough to let us fly her up to manage the dog- and house-sitting duties while we were on our epic family vacation.

She’s already flying back home tomorrow, so today we brunched at the amazing Serpentine in SF’s Dogpatch district, and road-tripped up the coast to see the magical Muir Woods and soak up some sun at the very sweet and quaint Stinson Beach. It was a glorious day, all blue skies and stolen patches of delicious warmth in between brisk sea breezes.

We came home, utterly exhausted from a 12-hour day out and about, and stuffed ourselves with carnitas nachos and strawberry lime margaritas. I figure after all that hiking and not crying over goodbyes and not dying on HWY 1, we earned it!

If these photos have a familiar ring to them, it’s because they’re the companion pics from FFAF’s earlier Mother’s Day post! (Yes, yes, way back in May. Good grief!) I’d forgotten about them, which is ridiculous because M looks amazing and her pattern-mixing is kind of epic. It’s also interesting to note that it was perhaps warmer in May than it’s been in June thus far.

Anyway, enjoy, and keep an eye out for lots of on-location FFAF posts from our holiday!

Blazer: H&M
Madras Shorts: Ralph Lauren
Shirt: Calvin Klein
Striped Tie: Tommy Hilfiger
Tie Clip: Vintage
Sunglasses: Dickies
Boat Shoes: Payless

PS. Here are some gratuitous loverbird shots. Tender!

CONFESSION: Y’all, this weekend was one big, dreamy, fantastical doozy! The hilarious thing is that M & I were hemming and hawing and grumbling about how we had all these plans, one after the other, back-to-back and nonstop when all we really wanted to do was stay home in our p/manties, eat prosciutto out of the box with fancy cheese and watch Grey’s Anatomy. But we sucked it up and ended up having a ton of fun.

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