Our Trip to the Pumpkin Patch

Today was our Sunday School class' 4th annual family outing to the pumpkin patch. After a delicious picnic lunch at the church picnic shelter we formed our caravan and headed up the interstate. It was a beautiful day...a high of 75 degrees and a slight breeze.

We took a hayride out to the patch and picked 3 pumpkins - 1 Ella-sized pumpkin for Ella to call her own, 1 for Trent to decorate for the pumpkin contest at school, and 1 "family" pumpkin to carve for Halloween.

Than we rode the tractor back to the farm, paid for our pumpkins, and visited the ice cream parlor where Trent ate Superman ice cream, Ella shared Superman ice cream with her cousin Sydnie, John drank a chocolate milkshake (I'm not sure what has gotten into him!!), and I of course ate a scoop of PUMPKIN ICE CREAM...one of my favorite parts of the fall.

L-->R: Ella, cousin Sydnie, cousin Dylan, and Trent

I just couldn't leave the post without some video clips of our trip. The first clip is of Ella looking for a pumpkin. We thought we had a winner until see discovered it was dirty. The second clip I took of Ella walking back to the hayride tractor stop. She is telling me about her pumpkin. Enjoy!