Pumpkin Patch

Here is our first attempt at a family picture for Mom's wall....not sure we are going to get a good one this year..... Hopefully, since we are starting early, we will have a lot of chances to get a good picture.

So, we got to the pumpkin patch and paid (way too much) to get in. The cost includes a hayride, food for animals, and a small pumpkin. When you walk in, there are cows, sheep, and goats that you can feed. We went in the afternoon, so the animals weren't super hungry, but we found a few sheep that wanted some food. Josh had to show the kids that they weren't going to hurt them....

All the way out to the pumpkin patch, Chloe was so excited to feed the animals, but when it came right down to it, she wouldn't do it.

The only one who would, was Keira. She wasn't afraid at all (could be because she had no clue, but hopefully she will always enjoy being around animals).

We saw these huge pumpkins, so I thought I would share this picture with you

Chloe finally took a turn with the cup so that they wouldn't touch her...

Caleb was just happy to let the girls and dad do the feeding...had no interest whatsoever in feeding the animals.

I have plans to photoshop this one, but wanted to share it with you because I really like it.

We went on a hayride next, it was really muddy and bumpy, but we had some fun. Along the trail we read a story on signs about Farmer Rick and how one day he went out to check on his farm hands and he never returned, his wife went out to look for him and he never returned. On the far end of the hayride, there was a big round bale and there was legs sticking out....we believe that was Farmer Rick. Sweet Chloe was very worried all the way home and kept asking "who is going to get Farmer Rick out?" I thought it was pretty sweet.

After the hayride, we picked out our pumpkin. Caleb and I had picked a pumpkin that we drove by during the hayride and Caleb was super concerned that it wasn't going to be there when we got back, but it was, so he was happy about that.

Keira picked out just about every pumpkin she could pick up....she was pretty cute....as always

Then she found the perfect one....

Apparently I didn't take a picture of Chloe with her pumpkin, but she did get one (most of them were pretty muddy, so dad carried most of them).

Next year we might try and go to one that doesn't cost as much, I was a little disappointed in the cost, but we do love the pumpkin patch. Have you visited the pumpkin patch yet this year?