It's Fall!!!

Every autumn we try to do something as a family. We have kind of made it a tradition to go to a farm or some place that has fun stuff for kids and treats and pumpkins. This year we went to a family farm where they had hayrides, petting animals, a corn maze, a playground and a little local restaurant. We planned to stay for a couple of hours but ended up there for approx. 8 hours due to the loss of a car key somewhere on the large hillside farm............... Joshua didn't realize it was gone from his pocket until we were getting ready to leave. Then he thought if he just retraced his steps he would find it. After a while I was finally able to convince him that we should just call a lock place so we could hopefully get home at a reasonable hour. Of course, the lock guy who was on call would not answer his phone and the owner of the lock place had to come to our rescue from about an hour away so we waited and waited. At least there was plenty to do and it didn't cost that much. We went on the hayride which took us to the pumpkin patch and the kids got to pick a pumpkin right off the vine. The older two went through the mazes and down the underground slide. Samuel fed and fed and fed the goats with this special pulley contraption. I'm not really sure what it was but you put the food in a little box and then wind the handle and it would take the food to the goats. Sure, you could just go over to the fence and feed them but Sam was enthralled by this thing and fed them for about an hour (maybe more). Katie and Abby played in the hay and in the sandbox and then we all ate at the restaurant. We really had a good time and the kids did really well. And in the end we got ice cream cones even though the sun had gone down and it got a little cool (the jackets were locked in the car).All total we got 7 pumpkins.........We will be canning and freezing and making a lot of pumpkin stuff...............Muffins, cookies and maybe a cheesecake or something, YUM!!!The kids all got to go on this barrel ride pulled by a lawn tractor through the corn field. They loved it!! I might have to try to build one........................
Sam played on the tire swings before he found out about the goats.............