Mud and Pumpkins

 
We waited too long to make our annual pilgrimage to the pumpkin patch . . . by the end of the first week of October it was raining heavily, and it hasn't stopped yet!  But, tradition is tradition, so on Friday, October 27th (which was a no school day) we spent a few fun and muddy hours at Bi-Zi Farms. 

 

 

 Bailey and this goat had quite a conversation.

We were lucky that rain didn't fall on our heads while we were there, but the ground was exceedingly muddy.
 
After six years of living in muddy, rainy Washington, I finally broke down and bought myself a pair of rain boots.  Aren't they cute? Now I need to break down and buy pairs for the rest of the family,so they can wear they that one day a year that we go to the pumpkin patch. No one actually wears rain boots just in the rain around here.
 
The traditional pumpkin launch.  Just like every year, we ALMOST got the pumpkin launched into the bucket. If only we had succeeded - we could won a very awesomely tacky scarecrow from the dollar store.

 

 

 

 Learning how to lasso.

 Aubrey caught the steer!  Or cow or whatever it is . .

Dan and I really hate the corn maze. How is it fun to get lost intentionally and then spend up to an hour trying to find our way out?  The experience feels like a recurrent nightmare I have.  Our kids, on the other hand, love the corn maze.  So we dutiful parents traversed the muddy paths and found our way out, thanks to the map Dan and Aubrey carefully  followed.

 

 We made it!

 And now . . .  to find the perfect pumpkin.

 Bailey was dancing through the pumpkin fields. She really, really loves everything about autumn.

 

 

 Washing the pumpkins off and heading home.

Til next year!