Picking the Perfect Pumpkins

On Saturday we went to Tate Farms Pumpkin Patch outside of Huntsville. It was quite an impressive place. They have like 5000 acres of land. I thought they did a good job with their set up to accomodate so many people. They had all kinds of playground equipment, slides, little John Deere tractors. They had a hay loft you could jump out of. You could jump in a cotton bin and they had tons of corn cribs you could play in. Savannah seemed to enjoy the corn cribs. Of course they had a hayride out into their pumpkin patch. They said because of the August heat like 80% of their pumpkins didn't mature properly, but it looked like they still had a pretty good selection to choose from in the fields. We picked out 3 small pumpkins that would be easy to carry. Although Savannah was getting tired by this point, she did seem to enjoy walking through the patch and trying not to slip on vines. We couldn't get her to say "pumkpin", but she would say ball. I guess that explains why when I put a small pumpkin in her hands, that she tried to throw it. After several days of cooler, perfect weather last week we were expecting Saturday to be just as pleasant. It was a nice day, but 80ish temps is still too hot in my book for pumpkin pickin'. Overall I think Savannah was at a good age to enjoy the fun this year. Last year she slept through the whole hayride and pumpkin picking experience.










She loved this little ride that went around in a circle. Had to have big kids on peddling though.