The Pumpkin Patch

There's a family owned pumpkin patch I have been going to since I was a little girl. It's out by my Mom's house in Riverton. It started out as a simple patch of pumpkins in the field next to their family's farm house and it's been fun watching it evolve over the years. They have added a corn maze, a bunch of old farm equipment, wheelbarrows as shopping carts, and even an area for parking since cars used to line both sides of the road every October.

This year was the most fun I've ever had picking out pumpkins. It was bitter cold, but well worth it. I told the kids they could have the pick of the place; any pumpkin they wanted, as long as they could lift it into the wheelbarrow themselves.

Jackson found his pumpkin first but it was huge and he couldn't lift it so he got creative. Him and Ashleigh worked together by tipping the wheelbarrow all the way to the ground and rolling the pumpkin inside. It took quite a few attempts and was hilarious to watch. About 10 min later, Jackson was pushing the wheelbarrow and  it dumped over then he hit a bump... and the process started all over again. Haha.

I knew my mom would be driving home from work soon so I let her know where we were and she stopped by for a while to visit while we walked through the patch.

Ashleigh just wanted to get a pumpkin bigger than Jackson's. She scoured the place and passed up some good looking pumpkins because they weren't big enough. In the back of the red pickup truck were tons of pumpkins and Ash's spotted the one she wanted when we were taking pictures. It was towards the bottom. Rusty dug it out for her and she felt very accomplished to get one that was big enough.

The kids had fun playing on the old tractors and we all got lost in the corn maze for a little bit. It was a blast and we got a great price on the 7 pumpkins we picked out.

    

  We headed home to watch the next movie in our Harry Potter marathon, drank cocoa, carved pumpkins & I roasted the seeds. It was the perfect Autumn evening.