Pumpkin' Patch Kids

Another Fall has brought another trip to the pumpkin patch. For a few years in a row now, we've fallen prey to the most local of the patches since we usually spend 2 - 3 hours there and some of them are roughly an hour away.  That eats a significant portion of a Saturday, real quick.

So this year, as well as the two preceding it, we ended up at Giesler Farms which is located between Bondurant and Elkhart, immediately East of Ankeny, Ia.

The corn maze is always fun, that is, if you've slept the previous night!

They have many other "things" there that are fun for various ages.  Robby, I have a feeling, is beginning to discover that he is "aging out" of the pumpkin patch excitement somewhat, but he still had fun.

The beginning of the maize maze, Robby and Caleb are "leading" us at this point.

Having located one of the 20 numbered posts, they're punching their cards to get their free gift once you find all 20.

Robby pondering how to cross one of the muddier sections...

After the corn maze, the boys enjoyed themselves on the very large, and new this year, slide.  This thing is awesome.

The corn pit.

These are the kinds of go-carts kids should have. Pedals!!

Trying to race, but Robby wasn't have much success on keeping his racer moving.

Into the tumbling device!

The great pumpkin...

The boys, posing with their very large pumpkins after Robby got himself folded up into the wagon.  I was pulling them back to the area where we pay for our gourds, and I said to a giggling Caleb, "Dad needs a rest.  Let me get in there and you pull me.".  To which he replied, "Daddy, that would be difficult". 

And so another year has passed...

Next up, carving those bad boys with Aunt Doris!