Sunday, October 16, 2011

Pumpkins 2: the Patch

We've also been working on a few scarecrow items but I'm waiting until I have enough to make a substantial blog post solely devoted to that.

In the meantime, here are more of the pumpkin activities we've been doing.

We made pumpkin spice cake (this recipe has no flour in it - only nuts, egg, pumpkin, spices, baking soda, and raisins. kind of weird recipe. major delicious cake)


We had dinner in a pumpkin (this recipe was also highly modified to fit our needs and it turned out pretty well.)

We went to the pumpkin patch out in Santaquin in with a new friend of mine.
This is on the tractor ride to get to the patch. I just like this photo because my kids look genuinely happy - not the fake "cheese" smile I usually get from them. They were really looking forward to doing this.

This and a few of the following are the obligatory pose with your pumpkin shots - that by the way never turn out because three kids never look at the camera at the same time. This was my best one.



This one is just so funny


This was a cute apple crate maze. It was short enough that when I went in I could see over the top - which is what I like. Joshua loved it and I let him go in by himself to see if he would make it out, and he did... but he came back out the entrance.

Abigail's favorite part was probably this tractor. When it was time to get back on the tractor ride to go back to the car she said, "No. I'm staying here. I'll drive this tractor."

This place was full of photo opportunities

Lukas calling out the inner cowboy


It was my friend's birthday so back at the Big Red Barn we celebrated with Ice Cream - I chose Pumpkin Pie. (the kids had "light pink" and licorice.)

And we saw some incredibly huge pumpkins!
This is such a bad photo but I like how it shows how excited Joshua was about the size of the pumpkin

He had to ask if this one was real
This next week we are going to paint pumpkins, eat more pumpkins, and probably head out to another pumpkin patch - a more kid activity based one I've been hearing about from more than a few people - and it's free and almost literally right down the street. So check back next week.

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