10/14/07 - Pumpkin Patch

For our fall tradition, we took the girls to the pumpkin patch at Sauvie Island Farms on Saturday. They had cornfield and hay mazes, a haystack pyramid, bounce houses, a giant pumpkin slingshot, barnyard animals, kettle corn, caramel apples, and much more. It started off cloudy, but soon burned off into a bright, sunny day. I forgot the sling, so whenever Amanda cried in the stroller, I carried her bundled up in my jacket. Some of the activities were too big for Eva, but she still enjoyed the "amimals" and playing in the hay maze. I tried to get some video of the experience, but our video camera won't focus and everything looks blurry. I'm afraid we're going to have to take it in for repairs. In the meantime, we got some great pictures, and brought home farm fresh apples and a huge pumpkin, perfect for carving. There are a couple other farms with pumpkin patches in the same area. They're all so popular that it took us an hour and a half just to get off the island, because the traffic was so backed up. At one point Amanda had a blow-out diaper and we had to change her, outfit and all, right there on the road, in traffic. I'm still glad we went, though. Last October my Grandmother passed and we missed taking Eva to Bates Nut Farm. Little did we know that the following fall we'd be taking her to a pumpkin patch in another state, with a new baby sister! God has a great sense of humor.