Pumpkin Patch Visits

The Farm at Swan's Trail in Snohomish seems to be our pumpkin patch of choice. We started going there when Ailey was in her first year of preschool and the preschool went there for their field trip. It's a fun family farm with animals, a hay barn, a huge corn maze (though we haven't tried this out), this year a new Four Little Pigs show, and, of course, TONS of pumpkins.

The field trips take a hay ride out to the further pumpkin patches for the kids to pick out their pumpkins. The tractor driver is very entertaining, instructing everyone to stay in their seats with a rhyme and dance.

This year wasn't Marin and Silje's first visit out there, but it was their first as part of the preschool field trip. It was just the three of us, and we had a beautiful day for it.

On the hay ride.

They chose their pumpkins pretty quickly and even carried them around most of the time.

They even posed for me a couple times...

Last year Ailey's Kindergarten class took a field trip to The Farm, but not this year. So today we went as a family. We got lucky with weather again, and it was even warm enough to take our coats off!

The Farm is having a great year for pumpkins. The girls found some to sit on.

Have a pumpkin! This is just one row of the main field.

The girls found one big enough for all three to sit on.

And here are the three we picked out - beauties!

The girls had so much fun running through the field that we stuck around for a while after loading our pumpkins in the car. It was warm, but after the last few days of rain we also brought home a lot of mud!

We'll carve our pumpkins in the next few days. One costume party under our belts, and now we're set with our pumpkins, we're ready for Halloween!