One weekend in October my brother came to visit bringing with him his girlfriend Mallory. The kids were all super excited to have Joshua coming and were happy to finally meet the famous Mallory. Obviously she was a hit with everyone who could fit on her lap, I really tried to worm my way into the love fest of all things Mallory but Rylee is a scrappy fighter and would not let me have a turn on the coveted lap. :o)
Joshua really wanted to go pick pumpkins so that he and Mallory could do some fun carving. There are a number of pumpkin farms around these parts but the only one I could think of was Linder Farms. So that is where we went.
We were really disappointed by the prices they were asking for the pumpkins, plus the hay ride cost money regardless if you were going to get a pumpkin or not and even the pathetic hay maze cost money to go in. Overall we did not want to give up our money at this place and so Kefford called his Dad to see if he had any pumpkins we could have. After hearing about our sad tale he told us to come on out and that he even had a hayride the kids could go on.
While we waited for the hayride to show up I took some pictures for Josh and Mallory, I think these would be super cute engagement photos ;o)
Then pulled up the best hayride I have ever seen. Keffords Dad hooked up a trailer to his pickup truck. Inside of it he stacked some boxes "hay bales", on these he had a bowl of candy and four sodas for the kids. Then Kefford and Bob put the small picnic table inside the trailer and told the kids to hop in. They were so excited and he pulled them around the farm for a while and then brought them back around to the pumpkin patch, right in front of his house!
It was the best :hayride" the kids have ever been on and they loved it. I thought Bob was creative with his little ride and I know the kids will not forget this fun time.
Bob went back to work but told us to go ahead and pick whatever pumpkins we wanted. I was in charge of the knife, dum dum dum, and had the kids pick their pumpkins and then I would cut it off the vine.
I did a really good job cutting the pumpkins off until it came to the one Joshua wanted. He specifically requested me to keep a long stem on his pumpkin and of course the stem broke off. So he picked a different one and same thing. It was really only his pumpkin that this happened to...crazy. Next time cut your own pumpkin!
After we got back Josh and Mallory carved up their pumpkins. Since Avynlea had just lost both her top teeth Joshua did an Avynlea pumpkin.
We had lots of fun having Joshua and Mallory visit us and hope they can come back soon...please, please, please! :O)