A day at the pumpkin patch

On Saturday we headed over to Sinkland Farms for our annual visit to the pumpkin patch. Actually, it's my first of 3 visits this year (both kids have field trips there scheduled). As soon as we got there, we went right over to the pony rides since we figured there'd be a line there later. So Blythe got to ride "Moon" the pony.

Moon was a little anxious while she was riding him because in the fenced area of the farm, the biggest horse we'd ever seen was quite unhappy about being tied up temporarily to the fence and so he broke the fence, which caused quite a commotion. But Moon did okay and Blythe had herself a nice pony ride that she can talk about until next year.

Afterwards we headed over to the petting zoo to pet the cow, sheep, goats, donkeys, turkeys, bunnies, and chickens. Oh, and pigs. Except you're not supposed to pet or feed them. They bite. Ethan loves seeing the animals, but he's a little on edge around them. The sheep got him jumping pretty good.

Then it was time for the hayride down to the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins. As expected, Ethan loved the tractor ride. We should have asked Blythe if she had to potty BEFORE we got out there, as she said she needed to go only a few minutes into our search for the perfect pumpkin. So she and I flagged down the next tractor back and headed to the port-o-john. Which left Braden out in the pumpkin patch carrying Ethan in his arms and 1 large pumpkin. Except when then came back he actually had 2 pumpkins. I still can't figure out how he managed to carry Ethan and 2 pumpkins. We played around on some other tractors. Accidentally hit a button on the camera and this one came out black and white, but seems kind of appropriate.

Blythe was the picture of white trash in this photo:

And we didn't get Ethan to look in this photo, but it turned out nice of me with my new haircut, so I'm posting it anyway.

After a super cheap lunch of BBQ, hot dogs, chips, and dessert, we called it a day and headed home. Ethan was exhausted. Clearly Blythe was not as this is how she woke up from her "nap":