The Pumpkin Patch

Today we went to the pumpkin patch for a little fall fun.  Matthew's preschool class and Anna's preschool class (a once a week cooperative preschool through church) were both having an outing there that day at the same time.  So we went to check it out.  Here are Matthew and Anna at the entrance.  It was a cool day, but sunny and beautiful!

First order of business, we picked out some pumpkins.

The pumpkin patch was a lot of fun  They had slides, a tractor ride, a couple hay bale pyramids to climb, a couple mazes, a petting zoo, some different wood cutouts for photo ops and a corn box (sandbox style).

Here we are playing in the corn.  We let Grant play in the corn box, watching him carefully to make sure he didn't eat any corn.  Grant and two of his little baby buddies sat in the corn together (upper right) Grant, Grant and Hadley.  Yes, there are two Grant's at our church born within a few weeks of each other.  Our Grant was born second, but I didn't even know that the other family had named their new baby Grant.  We still would have named him that if we did know.  :)  So they are the two Grants, and both so cute!  I like how they are all looking down at the corn.  Matthew made a corn angel (lower left).

Matthew and Anna also tried the gourd launching (lower middle).  We used a slingshot to try and launch a gourd and hit a hay bale 50 yards away or so.  We saw lots of people try it before we gave it a shot, but no one even got close.  I helped Anna do hers and we hit the hay bale...TWICE!!  Girls rule!  We also did some bowling (lower right).

The slides were the highlight of the trip!  Anna and Matthew went on them over and over and had a great time.  I went on it a few times with Anna and Grant.  It was lots of fun.  I was climbing up on the hay bales to help Anna one time when I stepped in a little hole between bales and twisted my ankle.  It really hurt and I was afraid to get up at first.  Scott breaking his ankle was flashing through my mind!  Luckily I was able to get up and limp down the stacks of hay.  I decided we should go home after that.  My ankle hurt for the rest of the day, but felt a lot better in the morning.  I was glad it was nothing serious.  :)

We had a great day at the pumpkin patch and the kids really want to go back once Scott is back in town.  I think they want to do those slides some more.  :)