Perhaps you will recall when we used to go to a certain pumpkin patch every year, at the Red Barn in Santaquin. Then one year there were too many of us and it was too expensive and too chaotic, so we just ate the apple cider donuts and called it good. And that was in 2018 and we haven't been back! (Except for the donuts. Every year the donuts.) And the littlest kids didn't even remember it! And we realized some of the expense and scheduling problems could be solved by not only have fewer kids (no longer an option) but by leave some people home. So that's what we did!
The big boys (minus Malachi who was at a birthday party) joined us for a picnic with apples, and apple cider, and apple cider donuts (most important parts) as well as cheese curds and crackers and carrots. Everything was as good as we remembered.
Then the boys went off to work and home, and I said, "Wait! Let me take a picture of you first!"…and they DID! Smiling!!! That alone should tell you how long it's been since we first started coming here. (Goodness, look at little Abe! And even Sam looks practically like a baby! More retrospective here.)
The rest of us stayed. Gus (looking newly bald from his recent haircut) had some more donuts.
And apples. Yum!
And we had a fun time.
Found boy.
Boy fascinated by the tractor (probably has a more technical name…combine harvester?)
Tiny pumpkin on a pumpkin
Everyone liked the corn pit (a new addition to this place)
Even Clementine liked it! (But then, she likes mostly everything.)
Gus took it all quite seriously.
(Just note that his elbows have dimples.)
Everyone always likes the slide, too. Mostly, this year, everyone wanted to be the ones who took Gus down the slide. He went down every which way (some children being better at holding him than others) and loved it!
Sad grump
But does he have any reason to be a grump? He does not.
I love this picture of both girls in midair!
Three cute little boys
Four cute girls!
Four cute girls and one grump.
What a fun day; just like old times!
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Well that was a marvelous idea! Because I used to do this like this with my first few kids. But never ever win all these younger ones! Maybe it’s time to exclude some of the olders and just take the littler ones. (Though you have a much better incentive near you! I don’t know of any place close to us that sells these donuts!!!!)
ReplyDeleteOh! And Clementine! She just keeps getting more and more darling!!! The only thing that might possibly rival her darlingness is that chubby little Caw child in your last post!
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