Pumpkins!

October is a great time for pumpkins! And we've seen plenty of them this season. One evening while visiting my parents, we decided to take a walk to my aunt and uncle's house to see the giant pumpkins my uncle grew. Here's the little girls bundled up for the ride.

Leah was too nervous to sit on the pumpkin by herself. But of course had no problem sitting on Grandpa's lap for a picture. This pumpkin weighed in at over 200 pounds. He had another one that was over 150 pounds.

One Saturday morning we also visited a local pumpkin patch with some of our Leslie family so that Ross's mom could help her grandkids pick out some pumpkins. First we wandered through the corn maze. Leah was more than content to stick with William and Grandma and hold their hands all through the maze.

The kids loved these big pictures where they could stick their faces through for some fun snapshots!

It had poured down rain through the night and I was worried that we would be tromping through giant mud puddles all through the pumpkin patch. But as you can see in the pictures, by morning the sun had come out and it was such a nice morning. We did get a little mud stuck to the bottom of our shoes, but nothing too bad. I was surprised at how firm the ground actually was after so much rain.

Along with many farm animals that the kids could look at, they had some play structures that the kids could climb on and run through. Leah loved climbing to the top of this one and raising her hands up to show how high she was. This little girl has no fear of climbing!

But in all the fun things the pumpkin patch had to offer, this was probably Leah's very favorite part of the whole morning. She LOVED playing on this swing! She played on it for a long, long time. She kept asking me to push her high and take her picture. I had a hard time convincing her to leave it so we could join the others who were picking out their pumpkins. But she didn't care in the least about picking a pumpkin when there was this great swing to play on. Luckily Ross was willing to get our family's pumpkins so that his little girl wouldn't have to quit playing.