Pumpkin Patch

This past Sunday, our little family ignored the fact that it was 80+ degrees and went out to the pumpkin patch.  I have such fond memories of pumpkin patches, tree farms, apple orchards, and the like from when I was a child, and I get all sentimental about sharing these experiences with my boy from here on out.  What a blessing! 
Of course, we had to get the traditional hay bale with the surrounding pumpkins shot:

We got SO THIRSTY (did I mention it was 80+ degrees?!), and Oliver let Griffin taste his Diet Mt. Dew:

We also got to meet a tractor named Oliver!  hahah:

Griffin got to try his hand at farming:

They also had a petting zoo, which was so much fun!  They had a couple deer, and this particular one treated our limbs like salt licks:

Griffin and his new friend, the deer:

Watching the hay ride tractor drive by:

They had quite the set-up for the goats in the petting zoo, and this one kept getting in head-butting fights with the others:

Peering over the edge:

This petting zoo had a few animals that probably shouldn't be included in any petting zoo....geese and an emu?!  Really?  We did absolutely no "petting" of these biters:

10 months old, and more wonderful than ever!

It was quite a challenge to get this shot:

And the separate holes thing was next to impossible:

 

My boys:

Our family all ready for Fall.  No, we did not buy a $25 pumpkin there.  We went to a stand down the street from this pumpkin patch and got a great big pumpkin and a little pumpkin for $7 :)

Happy:

Checking out the strange looking new veggie:

He like the stems:

Exploring:

 

A couple videos of the petting zoo portion of our pumpkin patch experience: