Julie's Blog: Adventures in the PUMPKIN PATCH!!!

As you can see from the pictures my family & I went to the pumpkin patch Sunday afternoon. Most people go to the grocery store for their pumpkin. I just don't think that much fun for a family. We enjoy going to a farm & spending the afternoon picking out just the right pumpkins. We don't get out as a family very often so it's a nice time for us. Pumpkin patches are very popular here. There's all kinds of them. We've been to most of the ones in our area. They all have the traditional corn mazes & pumpkin patches. Some patches you can walk to, some you take a hay ride to. There's even one in the area that you have to take a miniature train to! Some have extra activities like face painting, blue grass bands, petting zoos, horse rides, hay slides, and so on! A couple of places around here have vegi/gift shops. You can buy anything from your salad you are going to enjoy with your dinner to jams & aprons made in the state. They also have munchies!!! Oh how we love the munchies!! In the vegi/gift shops they make fresh apple donuts rolled in cinnamon sugar! Oh the smell alone satisfies you!! They are so good! Specially when you get them hot!! We also enjoy the hot apple cider or hot cocoa with them! Another one of our favs is the caramel apples!! The place we went to Sunday just had plain ones but another place we go to often rolls them in candies! I love the caramel apple rolled in M & M's! They are to die for!! You have like 4 or 5 choices of goodies for the ones that are rolled in candies! Which ever one we go to, we always have a blast!!

Josee & her favorite monkey in the pumpkin patch! Aren't they cute!!! You better say, "YES"!!! LOL!!!!

John carrying out the pumpkin John chose! It only weighed 75 pounds!!!

Josee & John sitting on their pumpkins waiting for the hay ride to come back around.

John & I in the pumpkin patch!!

It was so cool....the farmer let Josee drive the tractor back to the barns! There was about 12 of us in the back with our lives in the hands of our 8 year old!! She had a blast!!!!!