A little pumpkin picking...

Saturday morning we joined some friends at a pumpkin patch that is actually in the state of Missouri (that's a first for us since moving here almost 6 years ago). It was unbelievably hot for an October morning... but totally worth it. We only ended up with one small pumpkin since we're planning to go again... and because they were pretty dang expensive. It was really fun this year since Carter actually understands what a pumpkin is. The entire ride there he kept asking if he could touch one. He really should have asked us if he could throw them. Every pumpkin he walked by was either rolled down a hill or thrown off a haystack... so we all ended up touching a lot of pumpkins.

Here are some (ok... a ton of) favorites from the morning...






Carter had two firsts that morning. One was sitting on a fire truck...




and the second was his first pony ride... which he HATED. I was actually really surprised he even wanted to ride. I was having to hold him back from opening the gate to get into the pen. I should have known it would be a different story once he was actually belted (with a GM seatbelt) onto the pony.




We ended the morning with some time at the play area where we ended up running into a man that was Dan's first boss here is St. Louis. I should have thought to snap a picture of them. He taught Dan so much our first few years out here and even used to stop by and see us after we left the Seminary... so it was really fun to see him. It is still so crazy to me to run into people that we know from here but haven't seen in years. It really shows how long we have lived here.