Fall Fun

Having a 1 year old and 3 year old this October, we opted for painting our pumpkins rather than carving them.  On Saturday morning we set up the kitchen island with newspapers, baby pumpkins, and paint.  The kids had so much fun painting their pumpkins and let us paint their hands to make handprints on the pumpkins. 

 While our pumpkins dried on the kitchen island, we went outside and Jay carved a larger pumpkin that his parent's grew in their garden.  No one was really interested in sticking their hands in the goo to clean out the pumpkin so Jay got to do it all on his own.

It was still pretty cool in the morning, so I found their hats from last year that luckily still fit!  They had fun playing outside collecting rocks, leaves, and chasing each other around.

After the pumpkin was finished I was trying to get the kids to sit next to it.  Charlotte sat right beside the pumpkin, but Trey wanted to keep playing.  She kept patting the step next to her and saying "Trey!" until he came and appeased her by sitting down and taking a picture with her.

Pumpkin Patch

On Friday evening our Sunday School class had their second annual trip to the Jeter Farm Pumpkin Patch.  We had the best time!  Many of our families came and it was fun to hang out together and let our kids play together.

When we arrived we checked out the animals. Then we took the hayride out to the corn maze.  At the corn maze we killed some time waiting for the rest of our group to arrive by taking pictures.  

Charlotte and her friend Emma.  Emma was so sweet to Charlotte and wanted to hold her hand and help her during the night!

Trey and Charlotte with their friends Emma and Carter.  Emma and Carter's family is moving to South Carolina tomorrow and we were so happy to see them one last time, but sad that they are leaving!

Attempting to get all the kids together.  I love this one because Carter starts running away as I snapped the picture!

Playing in the hay

At the start of the corn maze.  Trey was our fearless leader.  Luckily he has a really good sense of direction because he was in the very front the whole maze!

 After the corn maze we took another hayride to the pumpkin patch area.  This year there was a "tractor train" with little cars that pulled behind the tractor.  Trey did not want to get in at all, but Charlotte hopped right into a car with the other big kids.  The farmer stayed real close at first to make sure Charlotte wouldn't get upset because she was so little, but when he saw she was fine they took off around the farm!

Charlotte was ready to ride! Check out Tucker's cool shades behind her!  

All the big kids ready to go.  Look how little Charlotte looks!

Circling close by before they took off.  

 

 

 

 We ended the night picking out the perfect pumpkins and going down the slide. 

Charlotte picked out a pumpkin just the right size. 

Going down the slide with Daddy.

We all had so much fun.  Last year Charlotte couldn't really enjoy the activities and just had to be carried around, but this year she was running around with all the other kids. Trey didn't cry at all on the hayride and while he wasn't into riding on the tractor train, he ran through the corn maze and loved going down the slide.  When we headed back to our cards on the hayride Trey waved bye-bye to the cows and said, "Bye Cows, I will see you another day!"

Jeter Farm 2011

Jeter Farm 2012