Down on the Farm

Despite battling a cold for the past two days, we had big plans to make the most of a beautiful Sunday, and that is just what we did.  While daddy watched football, the kids and I headed to Wendel Farms for a day of fall fun.

First up, tractor ride to the pumpkin patch...

80 degrees and full sun at the end of September!

Ben was so impressed with all the "Ben size" pumpkins

we inspected a lot of pumpkins before settling on the perfect ones...

they had to be able to carry them, and since we will head to the pumpkin patch for carving pumpkins in another week or two, we decided smaller ones would be better for today

we love pumpkins...

....and each other!

speaking of love, Ben could not get enough of these piglets

he laughed and laughed at them

digging for carrots and potatoes in the sandbox

and milking

and once we had enough of visiting the animals and being "little farmers"

we ventured into the corn maze

that was some tall corn from inside

Natalie found a little maze in some papers she had in the car,

and used it as our map for the corn maze

and, lastly, our day ended with a pony ride on Rusty the pony

cowboy Ben

It was a fun afternoon, and just about all these two had in them, but after a short nap in the car they rallied this evening and definitely seem to be feeling a little better.  Fingers crossed for some sleep for us all tonight...