Off to the Pumpkin Patch we go!

fun fall day together!

Charlie Brown and his Great Pumpkin

best seat in the patch

Today we did one of my favorite fall activities....we went to the local apple orchard and pumpkin patch!! Because of the nasty spring weather and frost that we had combined with the brutal heat in the summer, I was bummed to find out that they had lost a lot of their apple crop. So we were unable to pick our own apples from the trees but we still got to enjoy some freshly made and still warm apple turnovers and some piping hot apple cider! Umm YUM! I would have been happy and satisfied right then and there! But Jordan was bound and determined to walk down the giant hill, across the field and to the pumpkin patch to search for THE PERFECT CARVING PUMPKIN (his words not mine and in all caps to really get across his enthusiasm for the perfect pumpkin...) So we made the walk and got to the pumpkin patch and started the search. And searched. And searched. We even set a few pumpkins out and carried them around to compare with other pumpkins because you know, we had to have the two most PERFECT pumpkins. And I think I devastated Jordan a little when finally I said, "well I think I just want to decorate mine and maybe not carve it..." Man, with the look I got after that comment, I'm surprised I'm still alive! Apparently pumpkins of this caliber are strictly for carving and showing off then making roasted pumpkin seeds with all the guts! Anyway, after freezing our buns off, tripping over one too many pumpkin stems and debating between some solid choices, we found the perfect pumpkins! But this didn't happen before I started calling him Charlie Brown and saying that he was searching for the Great Pumpkin....fall festivities at its finest! Now the search is on the find the PERFECT carving template and design! 

safety first! let's not mention we were driving with
the gas light on but hey, the PERFECT PUMPKINS
were good to go!

the only logical way to carry a heavy pumpkin
with hot apple cider...boom box it!