So… I realized, in a panic yesterday, that this is our last weekend before Halloween to get out and take the boys to the pumpkin patch.  This is something I’ve really tried to do every year, and I love being able to look back at years past and see how much my kids have grown.  We went to this same farm 2 years ago, and had such a great time, I was really fun to take the kids back there again.

Plus, lately I have just been feeling the pressure, there is so much to do, and so little time, the kids are growing, and we get so busy.  I would hate for my own personal hectic schedule to cause them to miss out on the fun stuff that every kid should experience… So… anyway, after my panic we all got dressed and headed out (thanks g for humoring me!).

It was just this incredibly sunny and warm fall day, but there was a really nice breeze blowing that kept sweeping through the leaves and reminding us that it was indeed fall… It was absolutely beautiful. The boys had a really great time, and I confess, so did I

One of the highlights for them was playing in piles of hay (poor daddy is soooo allergic to hay but still didn’t complain a peep when the boys ran in their and covered themselves in hay dust, he just kept looking at them shaking his stuffy little head… I don’t think farm boy daddy sees the appeal in piles of hay!).

There is also a fun wooden maze at this pumpkin patch that the boys love.  So Owen and Gareth ran in ahead of us, and Reecey and I hung back… Reece is a bold child, but the unknown really scares that kid, so he of course had no interest in getting lost in a big wooden maze. Heres a picture of him navigating the maze:

While we were all playing in the maze, daddy stayed out with Tennyson and played in the pumpkins – he set up the perfect shot for shutterbug mommy when we finally made it out!

After all of the playing, it was time to go check out the pumpkins, so we got a wagon and went over to the pumpkin patch.  It was really fun to let the boys run around and pick the pumpkins that they wanted the most.  They must have changed their minds 800 times, and we had to limit Gareth in the size department, I think he was looking for the biggest one at the pumpkin patch.   In the end we ended up with 6, oh no actually 7 perfect pumpkins.

Then while daddy went to go pay, the boys and I went looking for a wagon because I needed to recreate a picture from a few years ago when we were there before…. check this out!

Here are my four boys yesterday and then two years ago (only minus one little guy):

Sigh… they get big so quick!

I just love this picture too – Gareth is “pushing them” I love how they are all playing their little parts even Tennyson’s face seems to be saying “good lord, where are we going!”

So… yeah, a nice family day at the pumpkin patch.  I’m so grateful we were able to sneak it in this weekend…. and grateful for so many great times together with my boys.  Since I, of course, took way too many pictures (imagine that!)  I set up a little slide show for you to check them all out .  Enjoy!