This past Sunday, we had decided to squeeze in our annual pumpkin-farm-trip between an adult soccer game and a family dinner at Meemaw and Grandpa’s. Unfortunately, mommy woke up with a sore throat and a fever. So…instead of driving a pretty long distance like we normally do, we hit a farm stand right around the corner (so to speak) from our house. The boys still had a blast and we were home in time for me to take a nap and for Brian to catch the end of the Bear’s game.

This is the same place we went last year for Aiden’s preschool field trip…which is how I knew they had fun stuff for the fall!

Each year, they do this amazing corn maze. I think the average time is around 30 minutes to an hour to get through it. The guy standing at the entrance to the field told us it would take over 2 with the boys! Um…no thanks!

They got this hay-bail maze instead!

There were some boxes filled with soy beans, oats and dried corn for the kids to play in (yes…yes we DO live in the Midwest!) I thought it was cool that the containers in each different box were products made with either soy, oats or corn!

There were some really cool climbing structures too…

…the train was the most popular with our boys. Brady ran from the red caboose all the way to the front car, leaned out the window and yelled, “all aboard!” You had to be there, but it was hysterical!

mini tractor race-course

petting zoo (Brady is cracking up in this picture even though you can’t tell).

I swear they were feeding the animals honey-smacks!

Aiden peek-a-boo above the wall of a castle climbing thing

There are several different pumpkin-picking options ranging from a hayride out to the field or this one: grab a wheel barrow..

…and walk into a little area of grass next to the main building (remember, I was sick…so we went with this one)

Brady tried to take home the entire patch and kept loading this small ones into the wheel barrow!

Logan, as always, was quite indecisive and took his time finding JUST the right one. Here, Brian is making a case for a very nice pumpkin…which was rejected. He finally found one though. :)

The boys wanted to carve their pumpkins this morning so, despite the fact that daddy was at work, we went out to the back patio. As we were getting ready, a huge flock of geese flew over our house

This site amazes me every year…and I think I always take pictures (a few months ago, I found one on my phone from last year)!

Cleaning out the guts:

The finished products! I cut Logan’s exactly how he drew it. It’s supposed to have a mask on and be Bat Man. I was just impressed at what he drew…despite the fact that it doesn’t look much like batman :) Aiden just told me which shapes he wanted for the various features.