Best Place in CT for Pumpkin Picking Is...

Every year we go pumpkin picking, some years we get lazy and just head to Stew Leonard's. Since we had our daughter we love taking her pumpkin picking where we can go on a hay ride and get pumpkins in a patch. This year I was determined to try something new and wanted to get pumpkins from a real field. After some research we decided to try Jones Family Farms in Shelton and I must say it was AWESOME.

The place is huge! There are huge tractors and a ton of people but they have it organized so well that you really aren't waiting in line too long for a hay ride. Hay rides are $2 a person and they take you out to these fields where the pumpkins were grown and you pick your pumpkin. Or if you do not want to do the hayride they have plenty of pumpkins to pick from right in the main area. They had green, gray and even warted pumpkins. They have a little farm with pigs, they sold cider and cookies. They had little play houses for the kids to play in. For the adults they had a wine tasting. This place was perfect for families, couples and kids

So if you are looking for the best place to go pumpkin picking I highly recommend Jones Family Farms.

Great Photo Album Tip...

The days of printing your pictures and filing them away in a photo album are long gone. First of all who has room for all these albums and second who has the time. However, we all do love to sit and look at them so this is the PERFECT, compact, solution for photo albums: CREATE A PHOTO BOOK.

I realized that I store all my photos on a website and the other day my daughter and I were going through her newborn pictures and 1st birthday. She said Mamma my next birthday I want to do Minnie Mouse. I said Honey we already did that for your 2nd and she replied show me the pictures. The problem was after she was a year I stopped printing her pictures and did not create any albums. I stored some in her journal but not a photo album. So the light bulb went off: CREATE A PHOTO BOOK.  I logged into Snapfish.com and ordered a 5x7 compact photo book from her 2nd and 3rd birthday and will start a new tradition that every year I will make a photo book of her birthday events. If I get lucky with time maybe I will even make a "Year of Events" scrape book. They are small enough and do not require too much work on my part. So cherish the memories and create your Photo Book. There is nothing better than flipping through the pictures while laying on the couch with your little one.

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Follow Your Direction Towards Happiness Quote

"Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading." Kevin Smith