Vineyard Pumpkin Patch

Anna invited David and I to join her and Johnny on an MBA-Spouses field trip to the Vineyard Pumpkin Patch in Orem. Wow! We had access to a petting zoo, corn maze, swingsets, and endless pumpkin patches -- all for $1! We purchased three more pumpkins, at only a buck a piece. What a lot of fun!




We were greeted early on by friendly Farmer (name?).






We put our faces through this funny painting:




David and Johnny had some great smiles...but not at the same time! I don't yet know how to photo shop a smile from one photo onto another, so here are my favorites:








Sometimes David just looks at the camera, no smile in sight. Here were some attempts today to get the perfect photo:

This was what I got when I tried to indicate turning up his mouth in a smile!

This is how David says "Cheese!"


So I cheated and tickled him!

David and Johnny loved the time together,










And I loved the time with my sister, Anna (though I was required to check my work Blackberry a lot to respond to student chaos over a big writing assignment.) Anna is amazing, but she has felt down of late, due to a really rough first trimester. Even now, into her 2nd trimester, she feels like barfing much of the time and had to ask James and Taylor to eat their pizza in the yard, so she wouldn't smell the garlic. But mornings are better for her, and she was beautiful and in high spirits all morning.




Finally, Anna thought Mom and Dad might want additional ideas for decorating their yard at Halloween. Mom, Dad? Now that you live in the boondocks, will you still go all out on Halloween? What if you have no trick-or-treaters to make cry with your jumping gorillas and moving ghosts? See an old blog about my parents' craziness over this holiday!