the pumpkin patch

Happy Monday! I'm feeling those Monday blues pretty strong today after the weekend we had. My mom came into town on Friday and we celebrated both her birthday and had a party for Liam's birthday. My mom left yesterday for Boise and Nic is back to work today so Liam and I are definitely missing everyone!

 

Anyway, something I have been looking forward to all year is taking Liam to the pumpkin patch. I was bummed to discover that this cute one by our house that we've been to in the past was no longer a pumpkin patch anymore so we had to find a new one this year. My sweetheart of a husband got off work a little early a couple weeks ago so that we could spend the early evening together at Swore Farms. We tried going the Saturday before but got lost in the boonies in the complete opposite direction of the farm until we decided to wisen up and use the GPS on my phone. Don't ask me why we didn't do that from the beginning. By the time we found it, it was growing close to Liam's bed time and it was quickly getting dark and cold. In other words, recipe for disaster and not a very fun time. After leaving disappointed, Nic was determined to make it up to me and made it up to me he did.

 

I promise, despite his face in the picture above, Liam was having a great time! He is at that stage where it takes an absurd amount of jumping up and down and silly noises to get him to crack a smile for a picture. We couldn't exactly ask for those kind of escapades from the pumpkin patch lady. haha

 

So of course they have ready-to-buy pumpkins neatly displayed on hay bails as you pull up to the farm and Nic was all for picking one of those out, getting a couple of pictures, and scramming out of there but someone else on the other hand, wanted the tried and true, trek out into the dirty pumpkin patch, tear your own pumpkin right off of the vine experience. I won't name any names or anything ... but off we went across the canal with our wagon in tow to pick the best looking pumpkin we could find.

 

As we're traipsing through the viney jungle, I had the pumpkin patch version of a Clark Griswold moment but instead of a "Dad, did you bring a saw" it was "Mom, did you bring some gloves?" Nope, no I didn't (deer in the headlights look, gong drum sound, and all)! After agreeing to take one thousand pictures, back we went to the perfectly displayed pumpkins on the hail bails ready to buy. haha oops. In my opinion, it was totally worth it and still a fun experience. I think Liam would agree with me judging by the amount of dirt that covered him from head to toe. We tried to pull him back in the wagon but every time you looked away he was reaching down to find something in the bottom of the wagon to put in his mouth. 
 



 

 

 

 

I can't believe it is Halloween week already! Can't wait to light our carved pumpkin from the pumpkin patch and dress up in our costumes to trick-or-treat at grandma and grandpapa's houses!