Pumpkin Patch

Sunday morning we set off bright and early to head to Hill Ridge Farms for some pumpkin patch fun! Cal had a birthday party to go to at 12:30 (tis the season!) so we were thinking we would get there right at 9 when they opened and then leave in time to make it to the party. Well, it took us longer than we thought to make it there so we ended up just missing the party.  We were sad to miss, but really, you can't do it all! I am learning the fine art of over booking myself....!

ANYWAY-- it was a beautiful day and we had a lot of fun! There was a HUGE group of us out there.  I would say about 20 families we are friends with all went together, so that made it a ton of fun. 

When we arrived, I went to take a picture with my good camera only to find out it was dead... so pictures were taken with the phone instead! Oh well...

Right away, the boys ran into this maze.  Cal was like a crazed mouse running around (see him back by the yellow?) and Andy walked in, didn't know where to go, and started kicking the walls until I picked him up out of the thing- ha! Such a difference in personalities!

We made our way to the animals and Cal thought the turkeys were just fabulous! He kept pointing them all out to Andy.  

We upgraded our pass to be able to jump on the giant pillow.  We did this first thing when we got there before it got too crowded.  The boys LOVED this! They had so much fun running and jumping.  Later, they got on it again and Andy got popped (when someone else jumps on your down bounce to pop you up high) by a big kid and he went soaring-- scared me to death so we pulled them off. 

We headed over to the train ride after riding the giant slide.  The boys were excited for the train! And even more excited to have so many of their friends on the train too!

 

 I sat in a seat with both boys-- they wanted to sit together, but honestly, I don't trust Andy to not hurl himself from the train, so I sat with them-- it was kind of awesome though.  Andy had a hand on my leg the whole ride and Cal kept looking up at me and smiling.  I love these two....even when they are naughty (which has been a lot lately...).

After riding the train, we gathered to watch the "races." This was insanely cute-- they raced little potbelly baby pigs and then goats and then ducks! It was SO cute and a huge hit with the kids.  Lee, Andy's friend got his face painted and after the races, Andy was staring at Lee's face in shock of the paint:

 After playing more and seeing more fun stuff, we hopped on the wagon for the ride out to the pumpkin patch.  Right as we rolled in, the clouds were too and then, randomly, we got a huge shower as we were picking out our pumpkins!

Andy tried to pick up one and declared it too heavy and went back to eating his snow cone in the rain.  

Sally made this collage of our three boys (me, Sally and Susan) from 2011 to this year-- how neat is that that we've done this together and that these three were next to each other on the wagon both times? I just love this picture and their sweet faces.  This momma loves these three boys so so much! (also, I love how innocent they look in the first pic and how up to no good they look in the second...and they are all holding hands in the top one....omg, sweetness.)