All Day With My Family

Yesterday the boys had the day off from school for teacher in-service days, so we kept Bee home from preschool and we headed out for an entire day out as a family. First we went to a local pumpkin farm to pick pumpkins! We walked the entire field looking for that "just right" pumpkin because none of them were the size Bee wanted. We had a big one in the wagon, but she just had to have that "one" pumpkin that worked for her. She'd see a good one, we'd walk to it, and then it wouldn't be "the" one when we got there. She ended up finding her favorite one on the flat of pumpkins that they had prepicked up by the barn. Oh well, it was fun walking around the field with everyone! After that we headed to a city nearby to look around. On our way, since we had no real plans for the day, we stopped at a "cheese house" that we say we're gonna stop at everytime we go by and never have. We didn't get cheese, because we didn't have a cooler to put it in, but we did come out with some really yummy pumpkin squares with cream cheese icing and walnuts! Then as we pulled out of their drive, Smart Guy noticed a sign down the road a little ways that was for a camp, so we drove down to check it out. Turns out that it's a small christian camp run by a Mennonite group and licensed by the Christian Campers Association. We drove around the camp and stopped in at the office to get some info. Maybe we'll try it out next summer for Prophet and D.K. After those two side trips, we finally made it into the city to do our little bit of shopping and looking that we can't do in our perfect little town! We actually lived in this city when D.K. was born, so we drove around a little and showed the boys the church we were at and the place we lived then. They were both little when we left there, and neither one of them recognized it at all. It was fun driving around the area again! After that, we headed home for about 30 minutes and then went to the haunted hayride where Bee was turned into a cat! I totally enjoyed sitting around the fire with my family while we waited for a wagonride thru the haunted hayride. Bee kept telling everyone that she was gonna have her eyes covered thru the entire thing, but she didn't. It was put on for children 12 and under and their families, so it was pretty tame. The boys kept saying "That wasn't scarey." The other parents kept laughing at them. There was one little boy who actually cried. He was probably in 1st grade or so. There were people running at the wagon with scarey masks on a few times and I think that's what scared him. After that we went out for pizza! We got home around 10:00 totally exhausted! It was a fun day with my family!!!


Pumpkin patch pics!! I'm not sure which one's the scarey one!

I'm thinkin' about using this for our Christmas cards this year!!

These horses have heads made of pumpkins! Everyone was very impressed!


The big brothers pushing the little sister on the wagon out to the pumpkin patch. It was fun until the boys got a little carried away on the ruts in the field and Bee started bouncing around too much! After that she walked with me!




The big pile of pumpkins up by the barn. I think I was more impressed than the kids were!

This was the coolest pumpkin. Bee and I really wanted it and we were so excited when we found it, but when we picked it up, it was rotten on the underside, so "she" had to stay in the field! (I kept referring to all the pumpkins as "he" and Bee kept correcting me and saying that I needed to call them "she") So, we took a picture for our memory!

For $10.25 we brought all this home! There are 5 gourds in the bag!! We are very excited!!

I took these from the car as we drove home from our trip to a nearby city to wander around Toys 'R Us on our annual "it's two months until Christmas, let's go take a look at the toys trip"! The sunrays thru the clouds were beautiful!


What every parent want to see when they look into the back seat while on a trip more than ten minutes long!! Prophet never sleeps in the car unless he has carsick medication!

We ended our day by going to a local pizza joint that everyone talks about, but we hadn't tried yet. They were packed, but we only had to wait about ten minutes and we sat down. It was delicious pizza. Definitely not Dominoes, Papa Johns, Little Caesar's, or Cici's. You could tell it was all fresh stuff and none of it premade. We ordered two large's and we had 8 big slices leftover.... translated this means that they were big slices covered with a bunch of stuff! My family never has 8 slices left from two larges, my boys are big eaters! Not cheap, but well worth the money!