Pumpkin Farm

Today, we met my mom, dad, and two sisters at a pumpkin farm not that far away from where we live. We try to go to different pumpkin farms in October and I must say that this farm was the best! They have an outdoor eating place that is covered with a food bar, games, clean restrooms, a wooden fortress built playground, a stage for special performances, all sorts of animals to pet, hayride, but most of all, a kiddie zipline! The kids took pictures with Granna and Poppy on the hay bails: And then went to pet the animals in the barn:

That is a pig he is petting!

Isabella said the animals were nasty and she didn't want to touch them and "then maybe, accidently rub my eyes and get an eye infection!" I have taught her too well! So this is a "posed" picture.....I made her just touch the goat but told her she didn't have to "pet" the goat!

And this hen was making all sorts of racket in the barn, so we went in to see what all the clucking was about! She kept squatting and all of a sudden, out popped that brown egg underneath her!!! I am not kidding!! (I know it is blurry, but I took it in a hurry without focusing.)

Then, we all turned around to leave and this is what we saw:It was like they were coming to see what all the human-fussing was all about! Then, we turned to leave out the other side of the barn and this was waiting for us!I am not kidding, this llama looked part human and partly animated! It was just staring a hole through us! It was beautiful but really kind of freaky!!

We all then made our way to the "kiddie" zipline (and I use the term "kiddie" loosely!) We strapped the kids into their harnesses, told them to hold on tight, and let them loose to ride side by side and they LOVED it!

Poppy and Elijah after his first ride down the zipline!

In fact, it looked like so much fun, Brad decided to try it but the harness was too little (again, this was a "kiddie" zipline) and after he rode the line, he tried to get out of the harness as it moved back and forth on the line! I don't think we have ever laughed so hard! Everybody (except Granna and Poppy) took several turns riding the zipline, and loved it so that is why we all say this was the BEST pumpkin farm we have been to so far!

Aunt Christi and Elijah reinacting 'Titanic' even though Elijah had no idea what he was doing. We just told him to shout, "I'm the king of the world!" and he obliged!

On the way home, we stopped by Cracker Barrell for lunch and rocked on the porch for a long while. It was so relaxing as the weather was perfectly breezy! It was a great day especially because it was Granna's birthday!