Family trip to the pumpkin patch

I have been making a big deal about going to the pumpkin patch since before Haddie was even born. There is just something about going to one and picking out your very own special pumpkin. I had an even larger urge to go since this year would be little Haddie's first time ever!

I had it all picture perfect in my head...Daddy, Mommy and baby meandering through rows and rows of brightly orange colored squashes, taking fun pictures, Haddie wearing her adorable costume, drinking hot chocolate and jumping on hay stacks just enjoying each other's company and picking out our ideal pumpkins. A small, medium and large of course for Haddie, Mom and Dad.

Well, this is how our trip really went. It was planned to go this evening for the free hay rides and hot chocolate. Well we were hanging out with some friends when we decided we would just go earlier to avoid colder weather. So Haddie was not dressed up in her halloween outfit like I had planned, she had no beanie and I didn't bring the sling to carry her in. We could deal. -We thought we could deal- We get to the pumpkin patch and Hadster decides to wake up after being pulled from her cozy little cocoon. Can't blame her. She then starts crying but I get her to calm down. It was fairly warm and really sunny so that was nice. We start browsing and she starts crying again. So we "meander" rather quickly after that. The trip was cut a bit short, we didn't get many pictures like I had hoped, none with Emmett either, free hot chocolate and hay rides were only mondays and we dropped the one thing that was helping Haddie get back to sleep, her binky, in the dirt. Crying gets louder, we move faster.

It wasn't what I had pictured for our family's first pumpkin patch trip but it was still just as perfect in it's own special way. We each got a pumpkin, we got a couple pics, we went and bought our own hot chocolate mix and we got a fourth pumpkin to carve out and put Haddie in for a large cuteness factor later :) I can not wait to get a pic of her in a pumpkin!

 

She was actually sleeping through this picture.

One unhappy little pumpkin squasher. But look how small she looks next to them!

Okay. Listen. The sun was super bright in my face.

Emmett carried all four pumpkins in from the car. At once!

Oh, and our hot chocolate mix :)

I will be sure to get some pictures of Haddie in her costume and in her pumpkin ;)