The Pumpkin Patch

We went to the pumpkin patch this last week.  I was very proud of myself because we went on the last warm day in the few hours before the kids had to go to school.  When I saw it was going to get cold the next day I decided we needed to get out to that pumpkin patch before the cold came.  And it all worked out.  We were there for about two hours and did everything!  We were practically the only ones there for the first hour so that was nice.  Here are a TON of pictures from our adventures.  John was with us, but either in the stroller or baby carrier the whole time so he's not in any pictures.  Sorry there are so many, but I wanted to show Scott all the things we did.  Our first stop was checking out the pumpkins.

 Grant was very excited to run around the place like a big boy.

 Hi Grant!

 Matthew ended up picking a BIG pumpkin but looked at a few medium ones first.

 We had to check out the slides.  Here's Anna going down the big one.

 Here's me and Grant going down the slide.

He was a little nervous but I think he liked it.

 And here's Anna going down the little slide.

 Go Anna!

 And Matthew going down the big slide.

After the big slides we went to the hay bale maze.  In the middle of the maze was this little slide.  A little reward for finding the middle!

Grant's favorite thing was the animals!  He got to pet the turkey and one of the ducks.  Here he is looking at the animals.  He loved the goose too...until it honked at him.  All the kids got to feed the animals and they liked that.

  Here are Grant and Anna checking out the little piglet.  So cute!

 We had a lot of fun playing in the corn sandbox.

We also got to go on a hayride.  We were there so early that we got to go on the ride by ourselves!  By the time we got off the ride there was a whole busload of people waiting to get on the ride.  So that was nice to have it all to ourselves.

 Here we are on the hayride.

 Tractors.  Awesome.

 Here we are climbing the hay pyramid

 Grant so wanted to get up there.

 Up at the top!  With some help from Grandma

 Another popular activity was launching these little gourds

Anna did a great job!

 Matthew had a lot of fun too.  

 Roping some very stationary cattle

 Good job Matthew!

 Anna as a cob of corn...

 ...and a candy corn

 Matthew and Grant's bald head

 And Anna the scarecrow

 Sunflower Anna

 So pretty!

 Grant couldn't quite figure it out.

 I think he was expecting to find something exciting in there

 At the end we bought some pumpkins, apple cider and a very large cake pop.

This is how the decide how much the pumpkin costs.  It's a do it yourself caliper!  Cool!

 They had these cute little wheelbarrows to take the pumpkins out to the car.

 The kids loved doing that!

Goodbye pumpkin patch!  We had such a fun visit!  Some of us didn't want to leave!