A Trip to Schaake's Pumpkin Patch

So, last weekend we braved the cold weather to make our annual trip to Schaake's Pumpkin Patch. We have now gone three years, and have so much fun everytime we go! This year, we were running out of available weekends to go, so we picked one of the coldest days in October to go! We had fun nonetheless, found some great pumpkins and came home with some yummy kettle corn!

"How Tall this Fall?"

Every year we take a picture by this sign, this year Maddie measure 3'ft 1in! As we were standing in line waiting for the picture, a family with three highschool age kids were in front of us! The dad apologized to us for taking so long, but mentioned he had bringing his kids here since they were babies! I can't believe someday we too will be bringing our "baby" back to Schaakes!

"Heavy"- Maddie picks out the perfect "baby" pumpkins as she referred to them!

The 3 M's- Mimi, Mommy & Maddie

A family picture by our group of pumpkins....

Our Big Girl!

I "yike" this one mom!

Pumpkins Everywhere!

A couple of weekends ago, Maddie spent a special day with Mimi and Papa while Dustin and I got to go to a K-State football game! Mimi had a special activity planned, to make a Halloween book! Mimi even got out the paints.....what a brave Mimi! A book titled "Pumpkins"! Mimi let Maddie come up with the ideas for each page on where the pumpkins would go....and Maddie came up with some clever ideas, and then they painted them!

A few of her ideas...

• On a tree
• In a wagon
• On the fence
• On the table
• On the chiar
• On Daddy's Truck
• On A PIG! (thought this one was funny!)

The last page says...."Pumpkins Everywhere!" Mimi worked and worked with Maddie all day to teach her the word "everywhere". She now uses in correctly in multiple sentences such as "Messes everywhere mama!" Haha! Thanks Mimi!

Above are a few pictures of Maddie making her special book....