Wow! Yesterday we drove out to Moorpark to the Underwood family farm. It is a beautiful farm with a HUGE pumpkin patch, a huge garden, and many, many animals. We have been to this farm twice before, and it had been wonderful, but we had never gone on a weekend where there was so much going on. This time was AWESOME!! We had a FANTASTIC time. The girls had so much fun playing with all the pumpkins-- the giant ones and the little ones. There were LOTS of fun things to do-- a big wooden train to play in, tunnels to go through, a haystack pyramid to climb, and a really fun corn maze (that we thought we'd never find our way to the center of or out of!) There was a lot of yummy food including delicious roasted corn, fresh-made sweet potato chips, and pumpkin pie. This particular weekend we were lucky because it was also a bluegrass festival! So when we had our lunch, we got to enjoy some great bluegrass music. It was neat to hear a fiddler that sounded probably a lot like what Pa sounded like when he played his fiddle for Laura and Mary Ingalls!
My favorite part of the day was the tractor-pulled wagon ride! It took us all around the whole farm. We drove through the gardens, through rows of sunflowers, by many different kinds of trees, (grapefruit, lemon, avocado, cherry, peach, walnut ) and the best part-- through a tunnel covered in vines growing gourds! It was sooooooooo neat!! I didn't want the tunnel to end.
The girls got to enjoy a pony ride. This was the third time we attempted to put Ceci on a pony this year--and we were so happy because this time she rode it like a big girl. She loved it!! The two prior times she freaked out as we tried to place her on top of a pony. :) So this was kinda special for us. She acted like she'd been doing it forever.
We did so many more fun things--Lala played the "Wheel of fortune" and for 2 tickets, she won five more! Bella and Ceci got their faces painted-- and then they all took a little train ride. Our last hour, we visited all the animals-- chickens, emus, goats, cows, horses, donkeys and more. We fed the ponies and emus some carrots.
On our way out, we bought some fresh corn that we'll have for dinner tonight. I also got some really pretty dried multi-colored corn to possibly make necklaces with-- I also want to make corn husk dollies if we can with our husks. I heard that you can actually pop the dried corn on the cob so I think we're going to try that. I also got a couple of gourds, they're so pretty!
Gosh, what a great time we had! I didn't want the day to end! If any of you out there can try to go this next weekend, you really should. I know it's going to be super-fun!
5 comments:
Wow! That looks like loads of fun!!!!!
LOL, I LOVED this post. :) Each photo I kept thinking, "Oh that's pretty (or neat)!" And each photo kept getting prettier or neater. lol!
Looks like you all had so much fun.
We made necklaces from our dried corn last year. They turned out really nice, but were much harder than we thought. We soaked the corn for 2-3 days and still had a rough time threading the kernels. Make sure you soak the corn a long time, have sharp needles, and poke the corn with the needles on cutting boards.
That festival looks like so much fun!!!!! You all look so cute with the orange pumpkins!!! I love and miss you!!!!
Your girls and the pumpkins look so Beautiful!!
Oh how fun. Everyone looks so cute. I love Bella hair, she looks so grown up and beautiful!!!! I wish I could have gone with you!!!!! love you Suzy!!!!
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