On October 10th, we had some GORGEOUS fall weather and absolutely nothing on the schedule. We decided to seize the day and take the boys to Kelkenberg Farm in Clarence for some good, old-fashioned fall fun. Mom came along for the ride too. 🙂
The first order of business was getting pictures taken with pumpkins. Pictures with pumpkins has become an annual tradition:
(You might ask why I picked that picture of the boys from 2009. That’s the best of ONLY two pictures I have of the them together from that trip. It was kind of a not fun trip last year. LOL)
This is the first year we’ve gone to Kelkenberg Farm for their fall festivities. The Great Pumpkin Farm has a TON of pumpkins but (1) they get ridiculously busy on the weekends and (2) they have fair/carnival-type rides that Ian wouldn’t be able to ride (broken finger/cast). We knew Ian would be very upset about that situation so we decided to go somewhere different. That’s where Kelkenberg Farm comes in.
Kelkenberg is the farm we go to with First Trinity each year as part of their end of year party/field trip. We really liked it and their website had a lot of details about their fall activities. We thought he’d give it a try. We were really happy with the experience and probably won’t go back to the Great Pumpkin Farm for a while.
Anyway…here are the 2010 pumpkin pictures!
They had this open patio area and were selling apples, freshly baked pies, homemade apple cider and just-popped popcorn! Yummy!
Adorable sign with all the fun stuff to do and see:
Matthew Robert Samulski RODE ON THE PONY RIDE AND LOVED IT! I need to get Mom’s pictures of this. 🙂
After Matthew rode the pony, a hayride came back from the field. We quickly got in line to go to the pumpkin patch!
Waiting in line:
Waiting for the ride to start:
Out in the pumpkin patch:
Mike and the boys took a second to pose for me. Ian was having a hard time keeping his eyes open, apparently.
[insert big eye roll here]
We all quickly picked out our pumpkins and hurried back to catch the hayride back to the farm.
Sitting on the hayride:
Mr. Independent decided he didn’t want to sit on the bench. He needed to sit on the hay bales in the middle of the wagon like some of the other people.
After we got off the hayride, we loaded our pumpkins up into a wagon and took them to the car.
Seven pumpkins in the trunk of our car 😉
Returning the wagon. Mr. Independent didn’t care that Mike was pushing the entire wagon but DID mind that I needed to help him pull the handle (he wasn’t “steering” straight. LOL).
After we returned the wagon, we went to the barns for Ian to do the hay maze and to check out all the animals.
They had 2 piglets that were born in August and Matthew LOVED them. We also saw sheep, goats, cows and a bunch of horses. Overall, Matthew was very interested in all the animals on the farm. (Which is why I thought July’s trip to the Buffalo Zoo was going to be fun! You just can’t win!)
After that, we packed up the boys and went out for lunch. It was a fun morning! I’m looking forward to going back next year!