Pumpkin Patch

I Loove the Fall.

I will especially looove this Fall since we will experience so many "firsts" as a new family of four. And today was just the beginning of those firsts. We traveled to Brookdale Farm in Chespeake to visit their pumpkin patch and had a wonderful time despite the very cool breeze.

If I was only able to choose one picture (which you will see I'm not able to do) to show what kind of day we had, it would have to be our family of pumpkins that now live on our front walk. It makes me happy.

Unlike the farms in Virginia Beach this one you are able to actually cut the pumpkin right off of the vine once you've hunted around for the most perfect pumpkin. I'm not sure they existed at this farm but we came to like our four just as well. Lily had a great time trying to lift some very big pumpkins, trying to convince us to take them all home and of course falling since she wasn't used to picking up her feet to step over the many vines that covered the field. Emma was in the carrier and loved every second of walking around finding pumpkins, smiling the entire time.

After we purchased our pumpkins we made our way into the "kiddie area" complete with soybean maze. Lily attempted to do this by herself but needed me to explain what to do along the way. Too bad that I even got us lost :). We did eventually get ourselves out in a timely manner.

Sisters forced to hang out for a picture. Lily was not thrilled but Emma on the other hand was.

Another forced picture.

The next event, yes an event, was the horse drawn hayride. We waited in line and the girls were wonderful! As soon as we sat down on the ride Lily hid her face until she realized we were in the back and the huge horses couldn't see or get to us and Emma had a serious baby meltdown! She screamed the entire ride which lasted at least 15 minutes. Felt like an hour and it probably wasn't even 15 minutes but more like 8. But man oh man...we were getting pity looks from moms, kind but not so warranted comments from grandmas and Mike and I were sweating but also thankful that these horses that weighed a ton each didn't spook easy. Notice the picture on the bottom right; us in the car right after we jumped off of the hayride and practically ran to the car. Oh, Emma is all we can say.

Next stop was right next door at Bergey's Breadbasket, a local deli/bakery. The sandwiches were delicious and so were the little treats we picked up, the yogurt and chocolate covered pretzels..yum, yum.

But of course, the Check family can't really go anywhere without a little something happening and I'm pretty sure that these pictures speak for themselves.

What a wonderful way to end the day of our first family of four pumpkin patch trip.