Reilly's Farm & Pumpkin Patch

This past Friday we went to a local farm for a tractor ride to the pumpkin patch and a few other fun festivities.  My sister invited us along as she had organized the trip for her kids and several other homeschool families.  We were delighted to join them!  I knew James would love it given his affection for tractors, trucks and all other moving vehicles.

It was a chilly morning... 40's and windy!  So we left the babe at home with my sweet mother in law, put on our winter jackets and braved the cold.

Here are the boys in the parking lot before we started off on our adventure.

James was all googly eyed when he saw the tractor.  This is pretty cool stuff for a two year old boy!

Here are all the kids on the wagon.

We rode up to the pumpkin patch

And then we got to walk through and pick our pumpkins

James didn't really seem to understand that they were pumpkins and not balls.  He kept picking them up and throwing them!  Amazingly both of our pumpkins made it home with the stem still in tact.

Did I mention that it was cold?  Brrr... our little eskimo

After we picked our pumpkins we took a tractor over to this interesting little area that had a small corn maze called Candy Land and various different nursery rhymes depicted with pumpkins.  A nice woman shared with all the kids about how pumpkins grow.  James had very little interest.  Maybe next year!

At the very end there was a really fun slide that they had built down a hillside.  I thought James would like it.  However, it was like something out of the movie A Christmas Story.  Ho, Ho, Ho!  I sent him right down and it was a little faster than I initially thought.  Poor little guy screamed all the way down and had to be rescued by someone at the bottom before I got to him.  I took him down a second time trying to redeem myself and this time he rode on my lap.  I will say that there is a picture circulating... and it will not be posted!

By noon the sun had come out and it had warmed up a bit, so we ended the day with a picnic lunch.  At this point we were reaching total meltdown with several of the smaller kids including James, so it was a brief lunch, but enjoyable all the same.  

There are so many fun activities to do in the fall and this is the first year that James is old enough to start enjoying them.  It's so much fun!  We are looking forward to several more festivities before the season ends!