One thing that we haven’t done in quite some time was to visit a pumpkin patch.  The past couple of years the children have had field trips to do this, but we’ve never done it as a family.  In fact, I pulled out the albums to check the date and the earliest one I could find was October of 1999 — before Jocelyn was born!  So when Jerry and Shirley said they were coming to visit this weekend, we thought this was a perfect time to go.

We drove out to Pumpkin Junction and the kids couldn’t wait to climb up on the tractor-pulled wagon to take us out to the field.  We spent quite some time looking for the  “perfect” pumpkin!  We had a great time, even though the temperature was in the upper 80’s and it was quite windy, not the cool, crisp, fall weather I prefer for pumpkin patches!