it was the only saturday that we could go the pumpkin patch as a family, and it certainly didnt start off like a day i wanted to spend in the heat with three kiddos on a farm...
but it turned out to be perfect! Addie and I had just been to
Dreamfield Farms with Addie's school (post to come of course!), and we knew we wanted to take the little girls!
after a soccer game, cfa, and a quick rest on the drive there, we made it to the farm. of course, the first place these girls wanted to go was to see the animals! addie fed the goats and sheep over and over and over (check out anne perry's face right behind her!). anne perry more like threw the corn at the goats...but it's a start.
audrey kate was much more reticent and very observant, but just fine watching and not doing.
we then headed over to the cow train. what's the cow train you ask? just a bunch of white plastic barrels with painted black cow spots with a built in seat bolted to wheels lined up like a train being pulled by a tractor at a ridiculous speeds over bumpy terrain. sound fun?
addie had a blast; anne perry informed us that it was
so much fun; and poor audrey kate would grab my arm the minute i attempted to hold on and wrap it back around her! paul and me? we paid for it the next day!
after a quick picture (where of course they all decided they wanted to
hold a bumpy pumpkin)...
we headed down to the corn boxes. and these girls had a b.l.a.s.t! audrey kate had that smile (on the left) on her sweet face every time she jumped in and rolled in the corn! it only took a gazillion pictures to capture it!
and anne perry was just as grinny!
addie got all serious on me at one point and then immediately turned goofy. love her eyes here!
it wasn't long before addie was "cambell"-ing into the corn. apparently she'd heard someone say
cannonball as they jumped in the other day.
...and then she tossed corn at me and found herself back on that bench behind her! it did make for a cool picture!
audrey kate's hair is by far the funnest when she jumps!
anne perry was the queen of jumping. hands out. legs up. that girl could get some air (so much so that i
intentionally cut part of her head off)!
and then they all piled (or rather i piled them) in the huge tire swing...this picture makes me smile.
after we rolled everyone out of the corn boxes and dug the corn out of their pants/underwear/diapers/hair/etc, there were a few quick tractor rides before we got on the hayride.
to get our two little pumpkins and one big one!
while paul and the girls searched for the perfect pumpkins, i took a few pictures of a sweet family we ran into...and then she took some for us! (thank you rivers and hope!)
we were hot, tired and hungry (again), but the girls had a blast on the blow up slide...
...right before we ended our day with a little cotton candy & funnel cake to share!
even with that boost of sugar, all three girls were asleep before we'd made it very far down 82.
fun day making sweet memories with all our girls!
♥
and Finn kept us company while we pulled out the fire pit.
the little girls thought it was so much fun to run in and out and back and forth in the tent.
while mommy and daddy attempted to start a fire with organic wood pieces!?!?! a little newspaper (that would be how my dad started fires and it worked for us too! thanks dad!), dry leaves and dry sticks from the yard seemed to do the trick.
and we were well on our way to hotdogs!
and they were serious about their s'more eating! 
i'd say they enjoyed them!
then we played until it got dark...
dirty s'mores faces and all! 
yummy!
then paul and addie came in to help me get the little girls ready for bed and addie in her pjs. i followed them back out for a quick minute to grab some pictures!
and she was one excited little camping girl!
and the best part, they slept out there all night long! success!
