We picked the girls up from school and headed for the pumpkin patch...it was such a beautiful day and we weren't sure how many more of these we would get! We have gone to the same pumpkin patch every year...we take the Canby Ferry across the river, and it's just down the street. We always get a wheelbarrow which the kids immediately climb into (it's getting harder and harder for Daddy to push every year!).
Then we get out to the pumpkin patch and they going running for the hay maze. Jalen even followed them in this year! I personally hate the maze...its pitch black...I mean you can't see anything! I guess maybe I'm a little claustrophobic, or I really just don't like the dark! Then they run up the haystack and all jump down one bale at a time. I wasn't about to tell them to stop...maybe just maybe they will be so tired they will go to sleep at a normal time!
We went over to pet the goat and the bunny, watch the train go by and then went back to load up our wheelbarrow with our picks. Everyone gets their own, the only rule is they have to be able to pick it up! The big thing this year was the "ghost pumpkins"...those cool white ones. We had already got a few from when Jalen's class went to the pumpkin patch so we agreed to stick with boring orange. At check out the kids threw in some kettle corn, licorice and those great sugary strawberry soda that we get once a year at the pumpkin patch...I love it! Now let's see if we get around to carving them this year!
