All This For Ten Bucks!

For family home evening today we went to pick out our Halloween pumpkins. We have been seeing signs for a pumpkin patch that is close to our house, so we decided to give it a try. And besides, choosing pumpkins from a patch is way more fun than selecting them at the Walmart. They had wheelbarrows available at the patch so you could cart your pumpkins in from the field and Nathan and Matthew thought the kid sized ones were the best. Of course, Matthew couldn't put any pumpkins in his because as soon as he did he discovered he isn't strong enough to keep it upright, but he had fun and Kev and I are there to carry pumpkins anyway, right?

Second perk to the pumpkin patch? Ten pumpkins for $10. None of them are really huge, but it's still a much better price than you can get at the Walmart.


The third perk was the free hay ride we got. The man who owns the patch drove us around the farm. It's not huge like Wheeler Farm, but the boys were suitable impressed by the barns, fields, sheds, and the goose. And I love that it was free!

Perk number four came in the form of a little corn maze. It was tiny and there is no possible way an adult with any brains could ever get lost in it, but it was perfect for my little first timers. And it was free. (Sound byte of the evening-- Daniel: "I don't know where we are." Nathan: "We're in a corn maze, Daniel!")

The boys were pleased with the pumpkins we scored and are already planning how to decorate them. And we had so much fun we are definitely planning to go back next year!

(I have no idea why Daniel was holding his pumpkins like this, but it made me laugh. At least they weren't melons.)