Jaker's Pumpkin Patch

There are quite a few fields that grow pumpkins in Springville, so it's no surprise that we have a real-live pick-it-off-the-vine pumpkin patch just two blocks from our house. In the spring we watched the farmers plant the pumpkins, and marked the progress as the pumpkins grew. These last few weeks we've been watching the tractors driving down the rows, while the workers harvest the pumpkins and stick them into big cardboard boxes, probably to be sold to the local grocery stores.

My children have been begging for weeks to go the Jaker's (the patch by our house), and today was the day. Aaron's sister Stacey and her family are in town this week, so we've been spending a lot of time with them Today we decided we'd take the kids to the pumpkin patch. It was a good choice. The weather was beautiful, and the kids had a great time. I think we spent just over two hours there going through the straw bale mazes, looking at the animals, taking a tractor ride, playing it the corn kernel sand box, and of course, wandering through the rows and rows of pumpkins, deciding which ones to take home. I took a lot of pictures. :)

Ivan came and grabbed my hand and lead me over to the straw pyramid and asked me to climb up with him and take his picture. He so rarely wants his picture taken that I had to comply, and I think we got some great shots of him.

These two on the other hand, are far from camera shy, they kept coming up with silly things to do in the corn kernel sand box and wanting me to take pictures.