finally a pumpkin!

sunday was much more enjoyable. and madelyn barely looked like she had hurt her lip so much on saturday. its amazing how fast her injuries healed up! after church we headed to a popular local farm. apparently they are known for their smiling barn and apple pie baked in a brown paper bag. it opened at 10 and we got there around 10:30 - there were already lines everywhere.

it was much warmer than saturday (i think it got up to 84) so madelyn couldn't wear her cute halloween shirt, even though i managed to get all the blood stains out. so i went with a farmer inspired outfit instead. she has really outgrown the shirt, so she was showing a lot of belly. oh well.

this farm provided an opportunity for apple and pumpkin picking, but with long lines for apple baskets and apple picking we decided to just head up to the pumpkin patch on foot to find a pumpkin or two for the front porch. it was a little less than a mile walk (there was a hayride up, but the line for that was pretty long too), plus you got to walk along the apple orchards and watch everyone picking apples. it took madelyn a little while to start the trip to the pumpkin patch because she was too interested in all the people and the hayride. she did pretty good walking for a while, but all the rocks and apples on the ground proved to be too tempting and dad carried her the rest of the way up.

it was really hot in the pumpkin patch! this was not the wisconsin fall outing i had wanted, but there were a lot of pumpkins. not only was this a first pumpkin patch for madelyn, but for me too! after trying to pick up a few pumpkins that she couldn't move, madelyn went for more size appropriate gords (they had orange tops and green bottoms). we ended up picking out two pumpkins and madelyn picked out two gords to take home with us. you will have to tune in later to see what we do with them...

so now that we had our pumpkins, we had to make our way back down the hill to pay for them. matt and i had to trade off carrying a poopie madelyn and two pumpkins. by now we were all pretty sweaty too. so matt stood in line to pay and i took maddie to try and find somewhere to change her diaper. there weren't really a lot of options so i had to settle for a picnic table next to a family eating

their lunch less than 5 feet away. it didn't really help that madelyn was sweetly saying "hi" to their daughter the whole time i was changing her. at least she held still.

we did wait in line to go into their farm store though. and it was worth the wait! we got some apples, cookies, and their famous apple pie baked in a brown paper bag. let's just say that the pie is not low fat - you can taste the butter. and it is fantastic! i am not much of a pie fan either, but it was really, really good. i think that we will be taking a return trip for a thanksgiving pie or two. love.