Pumpkin Patch 2009

I told you I would be back! I apologize for the unbelievably long absence, but this month has run over me like a freight train. I'm hoping to get some semblance of a normal routine soon, which includes getting back to daily blogging. I have a lot to catch you up on! For starters, my parents came to visit last weekend and we spent all of Saturday at a pumpkin farm in Marble Falls.

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We kicked the day off by posing in many of the stick-your-head-through-the-fake-scenery walls. The kids thought they were so silly! I wish I had known they were so easy to entertain. I'll start buying posterboards and cutting holes in them and letting them paint on their own scene of fun and just take pictures after they create. It will be much cheaper than traipsing all over Central Texas to experience all the fun. Ha!


But, the hands-on fun is more my style. We got our hands dirty by painting pumpkins. Poor Kelly Ann ended up helping a random kid seated with us at the table. I think she little girl thought Kelly was an adult just observing, but she was really there to paint her own pumpkin alongside the other kids.

Abigail and Cooper were especially excited when they took off on a hay ride to the other side of the farm. They told us all about going through the wooded area and seeing the many scarecrows and ghostly decorations.

While they were on that side of the farm, they stopped at the flower fields to pick a cup of flowers.

Unfortunately, Abigail is not a future flower bouquet arranger, but instead took interest in only the sad flowers. I was looking forward to having a fresh flower arrangement like I saw the other kids coming back with. Instead, she came back to me with this pitiful arrangement of wilted and dead flowers.

Ma and Pa Kettle joined us in the fun as well!

We did get some cups of goat food, but Cooper was more interested in getting the poor goats to eat leaves and sticks off the ground. Every time I turned around he was sticking something else through the fence.

Fortunately, we did get to feed our own faces and it wasn't with leaves and sticks. We feasted on some delicious homemade pumpkin ice cream. It was soooo yummy! It was the first time I've thought that the pumpkin blizzard at Dairy Queen may not be as disgusting as it sounds.

Before heading back home, the kids took in one last adventure on this train pulled by a tractor through a corn field. Too fun!