KC Pumpkin Patch IV

We made our fourth annual trip down to Gardner, Kansas today to experience the KC Pumpkin Patch and pick out our Halloween pumpkins for this year. We realized that we have been going to this pumpkin patch since Chris was pretty small. There was a time that first year when I remember thinking, "Wow, look at how big those kids are" and now that describes Christopher. Here he is on the barrel train which, during his first year, I was praying he wouldn't just fall out of!

There were some new rides this year, including a potato sack slide...

And Christopher's favorite thing to do was the "haunted house." I place that in quotes because it was in a barn and it was literally a hallway with a few small displays of creepy things like Frankenstein and Dracula. But Christopher's new thing is to prove how brave he is so he was protecting us from all the scary monsters there! Anyway, after all the fun activities, we took a tractor ride out to the corn maze and pumpkin patch to make our pumpkin selection. The corn maze was fun and didn't take us too long to get through. Then we wheeled our pumpkins back to the car...

Oh and I forgot to mention that Christopher brought some reading materials for the very "long" hayride out to the patch (it was a book he illustrated and wrote this morning about Lion King).

After paying for our pumpkins, we returned to the car and had an "in-car" picnic. Chris was dying to sit in the driver's seat (car off, of course!) while he ate his PB&J.

Later in the afternoon, we decided to paint our pumpkins, which Chris and I had so much fun doing on our front steps! Chris was having a blast making a spooky face on his pumpkin and now they are guarding the house until we get to carve some other jack-o-lanterns later in the month...