The Pumpkin Patch!

Today we finally got to go to the pumpkin patch. There was no rain, just nice fall weather. The play group from my ward decided that they were going to go to the pumpkin patch today too. Samira and her two little ones carpooled with us and Kamaile and her two little ones met us out there. Paige brought a little boy she looks after and Alicia and her two little girls met us out at Krugers also. It was so nice to spend some time with some of the ladies from my ward and get to know them better. Both Samira and Kamaile have little girls close in age to Squishy girl so they have fun playing, kind of. They stare at each other more than anything, it's kind of funny.

It was so good to see Alicia and Paige too. I haven't seen them in two years I think, or almost two years. Either way it has been a long time. It was fun catching up.

I loved these pictures, the mommies and their babies. Alicia is one little girl short but it is still a really cute picture. The top left is Alicia and little girl Addison, Me and my Fat Man and Squishy Girl are top right. Kamaile and her little girl, (I have no idea how to spell her name) and her son, (she is carrying him) are bottom left and Samira and Isabella and Isaac are bottom right.

One of the first things we did was head over to see the animals they had. They had the biggest pig I have ever seen. She was HUGE!!! They also had a cow, a really hairy cow. We all thought he was pretty cute until he started sticking his horns through the gate trying to stab the little kids. That was not so cute. They had some chickens too, one of them had no feathers around its neck, not sure what happened there. In the chicken coup, there was a panel of insulation and the chickens were eating it. Not sure how good that is for the chickens but hey they aren't my chickens. Squishy girl loved it when the roosters would make their rooster noise, whatever it's called. She would laugh and it was the funniest little laugh.

We got to go on a hay ride which was very short and kind of pointless. I think it would have taken us less time to walk over to the mini pumpkin patch than to wait for, load, ride, and unload at the mini patch. Oh well, it was fun and I think the kids liked it, I think. They didn't dislike it but they weren't jumping up and down with joy either. I got a couple really cute pictures of Squishy Girl at the patch too. I love these pictures. Then again, I don't know that there are many pictures of her I don't like.

She wouldn't pick up the pumpkins because they were dirty. I did get her to squat down so I could take some cute pictures. Alicia picked up a little pumpkin and handed it to her and she was hesitant to take it because it had dirt on it, it was funny. I had to ask her five times to look up at me instead of the dirty pumpkin in her hand. The face I got in the shot looks so snobish, it cracks me up. After the pictures were done I told her she could put it down so she drops it and walks on like nothing happened.

Mean while, Page was holding my little Fat Man for me. Yes he is huge. Paige and Alicia kept on commenting on how big he is. And just in case you were wondering, I took him to the doc yesterday and he weighed in at 23lbs. Anyway... I got some cute pictures of Fat Man and Paige.

Fat Man got a little hungry while we were there so we reclined him in Samira's awesome double stroller, (which was a life saver for both of us) and he chugged away.

After the mini pumpkin patch we got back on hay ride and took the 5 minute or less ride back to were we started. I got a cute picture of Kamaile and Samira with there children, I wish I could have been in the pic too, but I was the one taking the picture, oh well. You can see both Samira and Kamaile and their little girls but both of their little boys, because they are only like 2 months old, are hiding under blankets.

After the hay ride we went back by the insulation eating chickens, the mean cow and the huge pig and browsed through the little market they had. We then headed over to the hay pile where the kids played for a little while. There was a pumpkin washing station and these evil little girls would let our kids even touch the bucket. Adam, the little boy with Paige was touching the pumpkins and these evil little girls kept saying, "these are our pumpkins, you can't touch them". They were sitting in water and they were scrubbing them. Adam was not trying to steal their pumpkins, he was touching them. Paige put them in their place though, it was funny. After getting some cute pictures of the kids we decided to head on to another pumpkin patch and get some lunch and see what else we could find.

Here are a few of the cute pictures of the kids I took at the Kruger Farm. I also got a really cute picture of Kamaile's little girl sitting on the hay pile. It was about time. I was trying to take a picture of her but everytime she saw the camera, she would run away. I have no idea who the little kids are in the background, it was some field trip group I think. But they all gathered and started singing some weird song, it kind of creeped me out, but to each their own.

We finally headed off to the cars to clean up and load up and head off to the other patch, The Pumpkin Patch, original name, I know. By the way, trying to contain all the mud we had accumulated on our shoes and children was fun trying to keep out of the car.

At The Pumpkin Patch we sat down and had some lunch before we headed off to look at some more animals. We got over to the barn that had the animals in it and trying to get some pictures wasn't easy. They had them in a pen, obviously but then they also had bars up in front of that, that blocked the view of the animals. You had to move around to get a full view of the animal, if that makes any sense. The pictures I did get were blocked by white gates and bars, so no pictures of the lama and pony.

The next fun thing was the big pumpkin for taking pictures. The kids had a lot of fun with that. These are my little ones. Squishy girl loved playing by this and thought it was fun sticking her head through. Here are Alicias girls and Adam playing too, they all were having so much fun.

I got a bunch of cute pictures of Squishy Girl today and one of them was the dirt that magically appeared on her nose. She was standing in front of me and she walked behind me then back around to the front and there was dirt on her nose. It was cute and kind of funny because if she only knew she had dirt on her face she would freak out. While we were in the market Alicia found a huge head of cabbage. It was bigger than her head. Guess there are lots of huge things that grown on farms, pigs, cabbage, and who knows what else.

Over all the day was really fun and I was glad that I was able to spend it with friends. Thanks you guys!