{October 16} Pumpkin Patch - It's Tradition!

Well, every year we take the boys to this Pick-Your-Own-Pumpkin Patch.

It's great!  They have a corn maze we walk through, little shops with hand painted & hand sewn seasonal items and pumpkins galore to choose from!  Mom really wanted to go with us on our trip there this year but her flight left on the 14th of October and they didn't open for business until the 16th so these photos will have to do!

Seth is constantly commenting on how I'm always the one taking pictures so there are never any pictures OF me so he asked if he could be my photography assistant; he took the photos of me!  Isn't he great!

 Waiting on Brad to load up our pumpkins so we can go into the corn maze!

 Then when he got back HE offered to take a photo of me with the boys. I love it!

 As soon as we entered the corn maze the boys took off running and Hayden called dibs on being the leader. (see his little foot there in front of Seth?)

 Every time we bring them here they have to get a picture in a pumpkin!

When we saw these storm clouds rolling in we loaded up and rolled out!

 Our picks

 Hayden felt the need to "keep them safe"

 I just can't get enough of that face!

By now I'm sure you're asking yourself, "Doesn't she have four sons?"  The answer, of course, is "YES!" but Tristen is growing up really fast on us; he was invited to join his friend, Max, at Knott's Berry Farm for Max's birthday and opted out of going to the pumpkin patch with us : ( ...and so it begins...