Orchard

The plan was to meet Jaclyn and her crew last week at the orchard while Chaney was still on fall break.  She loves to pick out a huge pumpkin to draw on.  However, the weather did not cooperate with us very well so we waited about a week.  Chaney was not able to go with us, however, the weather was wonderful.  Because of all the rain yesterday the parking lot was a muddy mess.  Muddy as in my stroller was about 2 inches deep in mud.  The kids enjoyed getting mud all over their shoes, clothes and anything else.  Today was one of those days where you just resign yourself to the fact that your kids will be a muddy mess so there is no need to get mad.  In fact, when we were getting ready to leave all of my kid stripped down out of their muddy clothes so we didn't get it all over their carseats.

We did enjoy a beautiful day feeding the llamas and goats, playing on the playground equipment and drinking apple slushies.  We did decide to skip going through the pumpkin patch and picking our own pumpkins and just picked out the pre-picked pumpkins out of the bins.  Jaclyn and I talked and we know our kids...we would have had 5 kids swimming in the mud had we ventured out there.  It was great to spend time with Jaclyn and her kids.  Each year we all look forward to our annual outing to the pumpkin patch with aunt Jac.