Pumpkin Patch Day

APPLES!!!!!!!!

Brothers! Sweetest thing!

Our family (almost completely official)!

Eating an apple from the orchard! For those of you that don't really know Ezra, he eats an apple EVERY DAY, the entire apple, not cut up, literally to the core! LOVES apples!
His little Hershey kiss eyes were as happy as could be when he saw all the apples on the trees and on the ground! You should have seen his face! :)

Playing in the orchard!

Mama's girl! KISSES!

Our picnic!

GOD IS SO GOOD! Look at these miracles!
I just can't say it enough! One proud mama!

Hard to see, but this was what the field looked like.

Precious boy! LOVE him!

This one accidentally got out of order, but it's the ice cream maker!

Daddy and Laine at the "Challenge Maze" entrance!

Sunflower field! I managed this picture with out ONE bee sting!

Cutting the pumpkin from the vine! Neat!

Ezra trying to pick up his pumpkin!

Chavalah having a HAY DAY in the corn bin!

My three little cuties (miracles)!

And................again!

Last year, we found a really neat Orchard/Pumpkin Farm (Apple Annie's Orchard) down south about 3 hours. We had a ton of fun last year with our dear friends J, D & D. This year, they weren't able to join us, but we still made the trip and had a BLAST! SO MUCH FUN! We left around 8:30, got to the Orchard around 11:30, smooth trip with the kids, then walked through orchard upon orchard upon orchard! It was GREAT! UNBELIEVEABLE weather! We couldn't have asked for a more perfect day! It was about 75 all day. Sunny! GORGEOUS! Nice break from the 90's we had been having! and are continuing this week actually! :( After walking, we took a hayrack ride around the orchard. Kids LOVED that! Then we found a picnic table to eat our picnic lunch at! I had packed our lunch! Cheaper in the end! :) It was yummy! Kids all agreed! :) Once we were done eating our lunch, we spoiled ourselves with fresh out of the oven and creamery desserts! WOW! Worth EVERY penny! Benjamin chose pie, and I chose Apple Crisp Ice Cream. Yumm-O!

We then left and drove a few miles to the other part of this business, the pumpkin farm. Our first item of business there was the corn maze! FUN, FUN! Benjamin, of course, wanted to take the "challenge" route, which I was alright with! It gave us something to do! Everyone that goes through the maze gets a "passport" that helps you as you find "number" signs. If you answer the questions correctly, then turn in the direction your answer says. We chose a "spritual" passport and oh my goodness, we had SO MUCH FUN! Laine knew absolutely EVERY single answer to every single question! Was SOO proud of that boy! AWANA is amazing for more than one thing! :)

Anways, we finished the maze in about 45 minutes! What a blast! Then we walked through a big HUGE sunflower field! AMAZING! Gorgeous! Then we took a hayride again out to the pumpkin patch to cut and pick our pumpkins! Then hitched a ride back. Walked back to the "produce barn" and just looked around a bit at all the fun and yummy stuff. Didn't buy anything, but it was fun to look at nonetheless! Headed lastly over to the big barrels of corn that the kids can dig, throw, bury themselves in, etc. They all three played for a good 30 minutes, then it was time to go! :( We are still finding kernels of corn around the house and in the car! :) Long drive home, however, we stopped in Tuscon, about halfway for a bite to eat and a break from the car. Got gas, then got home about 9:15! GREAT AND FUN DAY HAD BY ALL! As you can see from our pictures! :)