Sunday, October 19, 2008
To visit a pumpkin farm around this neck of the woods but we still do it every year. Cause you know. . . Tradition! So yesterday after we mowed the lawn and bagged some leaves and taught a couple piano lessons we loaded up the kids and headed out to find us some pumpkins. We visited a new farm this year since the big boys are too big for Benedict's hay maze. Plasko's has a pretty big corn maze that Hunter's scout group did last year so I figured we'd try it again. We divided into two teams: Hunter and Noah versus the rest of us. I think Hunter and Noah were done in fifteen minutes and when they got sick of waiting for the rest of us they went back in and started helping other people find their way out. Silly boys. Denver led our team the entire way and did a really great job. I was completely turned around the entire time and was glad I hadn't led a team on my own. I have no sense of direction. . . at all!
 
When we finished we had to get a picture of Caleb by the "Statue of Delivery" as he calls it. Last summer Mark took the four boys into New York and Caleb fell in love with the Statue of Liberty. But he never could say it right--for some reason delivery is easier to say than liberty. But the best part is, this summer IHOP had a commercial for their "pancakes around the world" special and they had the Statue of Liberty holding a giant bottle of syrup. Caleb thought it was hilarious. So nowadays, when you ask Caleb what the Statue of Liberty is holding up in her hand he says, "Syrup!"
Next up, we boarded the hay ride around the corn maze. Thank goodness we had that to bribe the babies out of the maze because right after the last post they both refused to walk any further. I already had lugged Caleb through the entire maze on my shoulders and there was no way Mark or I could carry them both the rest of the way out. But as soon as we mentioned the tractor, they were off and running. We sat there for awhile, waiting for the trailer to fill up, and the boys entertained themselves by digging through the hay looking for lost tickets. Hunter actually found two and if it hadn't been so cold, I would have let them go again.
We finished up the evening picking out our pumpkins which cost us $70.00! Holy cow! It doesn't help that we all like big, scary looking pumpkins but the worst part was when we stopped by the grocery store on our way home and found that they had a "three pumpkins for $15" sale which included any pumpkin, any size. Dang it! But like I said before, traditions are important even if they are expensive and the kids had a good time. Except maybe for Hunter who kept picking rotten pumpkins and had to try three times before he found one that wasn't rotting. Caleb insisted we buy some cider donuts before we leave and they were the cherry on top of the entire outing.
 
posted by Shana # 7:39 AM 
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