You know you want to see eight bazillion pictures of my kids at a pumpkin patch wearing handmade outfits and playing with another funny blogger

A while back, I had this great idea that I would take my kids to the pumpkin patch. What a great fall experience! Pumpkins! Hay rides! Cute pictures!

How delusional I can be sometimes. At first I thought I'd wait until my parents came up for a visit, but when that didn't pan out, I decided that I'd take them on my own. Easy enough. One of them can walk, so I can just strap the other one to my person or in a stroller and everything will be peachy! Easy! Enjoyable, even!

Again. Delusional. Luckily I mentioned the idea to Sarah and she wanted to go! With us! I know, I wasn't even offering a chocolate incentive or anything. She must be able to anticipate these disastrous situations. (Can you tell I am in the gung-ho phase of this deployment? Thinking I can do all of these two-person jobs on my own? Will reality ever set in for me or is this just how it's gonna be until Steve gets back?)

I picked a pumpkin patch in Hopkinsville because they advertised live animals, not just corn mazes. (I'm sorry, but if I want to walk around in circles for hours, I can take Sam out in the field behind our house and just follow him around. I will not pay money to do that.) Turns out that it was a good hour or so drive. Take into account my missing an exit and almost running off a skinny road thanks to a fat truck and not knowing what my updated directions were telling me, I think we came in right around an hour for drive time.

When we arrived, the drive was instantly worth it.

Whose kid is this TOUCHING GOATS and letting them lick his sensitive hands?!

Baby goats!

This is Sarah's This-Goat-Is-Going-To-Eat-Your-Hand face. (By-the-way, it totally did.)

These are hillbilly goats. Harhar.

Like this place could get any more charming.

Old truck turned into a corn-filled sandbox.

These pigs were the size of Volkswagons, I kid you not. Sam found their oinking hilarious.

Molly's thoughts on the hayride. (To be fair, it was a little jerky. That could very well be because the truck was produced in 1927.)

Don't look now, it's another awesome picture of the three of us! Molly- distracted, Sam- overly enthused, Me- can't remember to take sunglasses off to save my life

YUM my fingers taste like dirt and sawdust can't get enough.

Corn maze!

Where's Sammy??

Ahh, such a happy child... (Do you see that halo above Sarah's head? Because SHE IS A SAINT.)

It's a great pumpkin patch, Charlie Brown!

The hayride from 1932

At first, things did not look so promising.

At second, they did not look much better.

Ahh, there they are. Just had to get past the picked-over part of the patch.

This is the one, Mom. (discarded minutes later in exchange for a different one)

I'll take that pumpkin right there. No, not that one, the one next to it. Nope, a little further to the left. No, my left, not your left. You know what? Just skip that one, I see one I like better. It's about a mile that way. Yep, I'll just wait here for ya. Thaaaaaanks.

After loading babies and pumpkins back into the truck, I snuck back off to grab more than the one baby pumpkin that Sam picked up. Sarah caught me lookin like a pumpkin thief.

Goodbye pretty part of Kentucky that I do not live in!

A tractor pull!

COWS! OMG! COWS!

This little boy was so sweet, trying to help Sam feed the cows. Sam, of course, acted very interested until it came time to actually feed the cows. 

This lasted 4.6 seconds. I managed to take 8 pictures somehow though, so I'll let you figure out the shutter speed there.

This is approximately 4.3 seconds in.

Can we just take a moment to petition for Ruthie to open up an Etsy shop already? These outfits she HANDMADE for my children are the CUTEST.

Taken a half second before his little toosh left the slide and flew through the air before making solid contact with the ground. I think someone greased up that slide.

The second attempt required careful hands-on guidance from Sarah and a little coaxing.

Is she killing you with pumpkin patch cuteness yet???

Seriously, if you are in the Ft Campbell area, check this pumpkin patch out. They are some of the sweetest people, it's family-owned, Christian-based, and there is so much more to do there than I took pictures of! I was in no way compensated to advertise for them, but when the guy running the place didn't charge us the admission fee and then practically let us steal pumpkins (I got 4 pumpkins for $8!), all he asked was that we tell our friends about this place. We might even go back just to play around. Sarah? Yes? Are you up for this again? I'll bring chocolate this time.

Oh we had a giveaway, right? Let's see who won.


a Rafflecopter giveaway

Congratulations Stephanie! And thanks y'all for participating. I loved reading your funny responses and tweets. 

Ah! Just noticed that this crosses off #75 on my 101 in 1,001 list. More updates on that list soon. (Hint: it involves my oral health. Who's excited?!)