Don’t you love traditions? I love the feeling of continuity it brings when I bring out certain decorations or make a special dish for dinner. It just gives you a sense of time. Now that my girls are here, I’m always looking for traditions they can remember and love too. One of these is our annual pumkin run.

Right after Leina turned 2, we heard about a little local farm that had a nice pumpkin field, animals to pet and a little hay maze. It’s not the ginormous affair that happens on Sauvie Island. It’s much calmer and smaller but it suits us just fine. Even better, they have some cut outs that they put out every year and I make sure to snap a picture of the girls in front of them. This is our third trip so I finally have enough pictures for comparison and man, how time flies.

Here we are our first year, 2005, when Leina was only a 2 years old. Kulia was lugged around in the backpack and didn’t make it into the shot.

In 2006, Kulia joined in the fun. She was a wee thing but totally game. Can you believe how much Leina grew in just one year?!?!?

Today, we added the 2007 entry to our montage. Now it’s Kulia’s turn to amaze me with her growth spurt.

When we got home, they wanted to do some dress-up and I snapped these pictures. They have nothing to do with Halloween but since this has turned into a photo blog today, I thought I’d throw them in for free!