Pumpkin Pickin' at Pack's Pumpkin Patch

Tonight we took our Second Annual Pumpkin Pickin' Trip out to Pack's Farm. This year's trip made me think back to last year's trip, and how much our family has changed. Last year Daxton was just a little non-walking, non-talking baby. And now look at him!

He is such a big little man! He is so smart and he is talking more and more every day. His new word for today was (of course) "Puh-kin."

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And the biggest change of all, we brought THREE kids to the pumpkin patch this year instead of two. I would NEVER have guessed that would happen! (And yes, this is the best picture we could get):

Arden has grown up a lot this year too. She surprises me all the time with what she knows. The other day I was amazed to overhear her telling one of her dolls the Pledge of Allegiance. The whole thing! Without any help! (Of course she didn't pronounce all of the words correctly, but that is probably true for 90% of us, right?). She learned it in preschool.

Corbie was a good sport through the whole thing. Here is our little punkin with her daddy:

We loaded up the kids in the wheelbarrow and set off to find the perfect pumpkins. We soon discovered that this year most of the pumpkins were still pretty green. We managed to find a couple of really good ones, but we may have to hit the grocery store to pick up a couple more nice orangey ones. We had fun wandering around the patch and taking pictures anyway.

After finding our pumpkins and getting our pictures, Arden and Dax took Preston through the corn bale maze. By then our camera's battery had died (oops). Arden and Dax had a great time running through the maze, and Preston had a hard time getting them out! Every time they came to the end, one or the other would run back inside and Preston would have to chase them down.

I wonder what next year's pictures will look like!