Pumpkin Time

I can't believe it's that time of year already. It seems like just yesterday we were at the beach... It's Fall!!! My favorite time of the year. I love the cooler weather, the Fair, Halloween, my birthday, and getting out my Winter clothes (not to mention shopping for them). We just went to the pumpkin patch. It's just the start to our many October outings. We went with my family and a few people from our Sunday school class. It was a nice day, really warm, but pretty. We started by picking pumpkins (we didn't actually buy any b/c they were so $$$) but we browsed the fields and took pics. The girls were all more interested in picking the yellow blossoms than they were of looking at the pumpkins. And it was no small feat trying to get all 4 girls to cooperate for pictures! As in years past, we looked at pumpkins, went to the petting farm, rode the hayride, watched the pig races and had a picnic. After lunch and some time on the playground we went to ride the Cow Train. If you don't remember from previous posts it's made of metal drums cut to look like cows that are put on wheels and drug around the farm by a tractor. Cute, but terribly uncomfortable! What we do for our kids... After the Cow Train we went play on the slides and then we discovered the Corn Pit!!! It was the most clever idea ever. And it was by far the girls' favorite thing of the entire day. It was a shed with the floor filled to about 2 feet deep with giant corn kernels. Like a sand box/ball pit, and they had a ball! Sarah Grace buried herself, and Charlotte enjoyed making it rain corn. They played in the pit forever! It was so much fun to watch and I kind of wanted to play in it myself... It was a great day!