Pumpkin Pickin'

The pumpkin patch.  A family tradition most looked forward to by my children.  Last Saturday they waited in not-so-quiet anticipation for Daddy to get home from work so we could go. Once there, we found ourselves trudging through mud (courtesy of the stormy weather we'd had a few days prior) with one cranky little boy (Jonas) who'd fallen asleep in the car and did NOT want to be "waked up".

But once in the pumpkin patch, all thoughts of sleep and crankiness quickly vanish because picking out the perfect pumpkin is serious work.