Sunday, October 19, 2008

Pumpkin Patch

We visited the local pumpkin patch with our new small group friends! One of the ladies planned ahead and had us all come over to tie dye pumpkin t-shirts ahead of time. It was nice that all of the kids matched, since we don't know everyone's kids that well - we could tell who belonged to our group & who didn't! It was so nice that we went to the patch on a Saturday so Tommie could go. This was the 1st time he's ever been to the pumpkin patch with us! We went through two corn mazes, a small hay maze, played in the hay "castle", went on a hay ride out to the REAL pumpkin patch (vines & everything!) and drank the yummy apple cider! It was a wonderful day!!

The Payne Boys

Look how big they are! (Daddy is helping Truman grow faster!!)

A variety of shots from the day...On the hayride, we saw a strange looking field. What is it?
BROCCOLI! I've never seen a broccoli field before...
(and honestly never even thought about how it grows or where it comes from either!)

I'm not sure I've ever been to a "real" pumpkin patch - where the pumpkins grow on vines - not just a bunch of pumpkins laying in a field!

The whole family enjoying a warm fall day.

Didn't God do a beautiful job on His creation?

The whole small group kid crew!

My little pumpkin!

Tommie & I in our matching shirts! ha, ha

The "cool" bus or the short bus?

5 comments:

The Zavocki's said...

Looks like a great time! Wish we were there to join the fun!

Julie said...

Awesome, a real pumpkin patch!
Love the last picture of your family in the school bus - that would be a hilarious Christmas card!

In His Grip said...

Ok, the matching shirts have to go (yours and Tommie's). Love the kids shirts. Looks like you have room for one more on that bus. Any announcements we need to know about?

Anonymous said...

Fun, fun, fun! You look good with Mr. Sheep (not Tommie--the sheep--just thought adding the "Mr." made it necessary to clarify.) btw, definitely the "cool" bus. Chelsey

Randi~Dukes and Duchesses said...

I love the matching shirts ... saw those in FamilyFun but didn't get around to making them this year. It looked like a great outing.