Halloween or bust

After reading many a blogger who has been there done that, we here at the Pedersen household are finally taking advantage of the Halloween festivities to be had. Like many others, we too visited a......PUMPKIN patch (gasp!). We had a good reason to wait as Lily's preschool hadn't scheduled their field trip to said pumpkin patch until today.

Grandma Allred came to participate in the fun and help me take pictures. I was pleasantly surprised at all the activities and was basking in the unseasonably warm 70 plus degree weather. (who'd ever think to worry about getting a sunburn at the end of October?)

We got to go on a hayride where our farmer picked various crops and told us the rundown of each one. We got carrots, onions and Indian corn to take home.

Then we stopped to find our pumpkins,

rode back to the main part of the farm and got to play on all the fun activities. We saw farm animals, went down a big slide, jumped in a big blow-up pumpkin, rode a cowtrain and went through a haybale maze. Lastly, the girls got to enjoy playing in a big corn box....soooo much better than sand (corn can't get stuck in your hair and is much cleaner than sand...what a good idea). They were so sad to leave but were exhausted and thirsty.

Jump, jump!

Come on Zo, you have to come THIS way...

two little girls. in a little cow train. even when the whole train is empty.

let's get one of these...Let's get one of these...