Pumpkin Patch

{October 7th}

I really wanted to take the boys to the pumpkin patch with Mark and Jackie were in town to visit.  I thought it would be so cute to get pics of them together with their pumpkins... but of course things never pan out how you plan them in your head!

Most of the big pumpkin patches are up north or near Boulder... quite a ways away, so we decided to check out a little one that was close by in Parker.  My friend, Ellie, mentioned it was a little pricey but cute for little kids.  I definitely underestimated the 'pricey' part!

I've always heard/assumed that pumpking patches were cheap or free to get into and would be a great place to score cheap pumpkins as well.  Ha!  Apparently not in Colorado.

It was $10/person to get (thankfully free for Braxton)...another $3 to do the bounce house... and their medium size pumpkins were $9 each.  I was shocked.

 We walked around for a bit and the boys were really funny in the maze.  Ethan was short on sleep from the night before so there may have been a few minor meltdowns involved after we paid for the bounce house.  We decided to keep it short and forego a lot of the other activites for the sake of Jackie's sanity and headed straight to the pumpkins :)  Clearly I was not spending $9 a pumpkin when I can pick them up at Walmart for $3 each... so we let the boys load and unload them into the wagon for a bit.  Another meltdown and bout in time-out indicated it was time to go. 

Although clearly these are not the pictures I had in my head, I'm glad we got a few of the boys together.  Overall, I was pretty disappointed in the pumpkin patch.  I'm thinking we'll make the drive to one of the bigger ones next year!
And clearly we did our pumpkin shopping at Walmart :)