Family Fun on the Farm

So here are some cute kid pictures for you. We had a lovely weekend of wholesome family fun. The farm where we go to pick strawberries in the spring has a pumpkin patch and tons of activities in the fall. We'd never taken the kids, so we decided this was the year. The fun starts right out of the parking lot where you hitch a ride on a hay wagon to the back part of the farm.

Yay, hayride!!!!!

We watched a couple of pig races, the kids checked out the vortex tunnel (a stationary walkway through a spinning, black-light painted tunnel. Kids loved it, I thought I might vomit), and the we did the corn maze. Well, the mini corn maze. I'm not sure the kids (or I) were up for the big one!

Mason and Hays in the corn maze

Sweet Will

I spy Haysie!

After the corn maze and a few turns on the huge slide, it was time for the jumping pillow. I'd never seen one, but it's exactly like it sounds. A huge, rubbery mat in the shape of a pillow, filled with air. It has a firmer surface than a moon bounce, and the kids really liked it. Hays kept getting too close to the edge and bouncing off the side, but he thought it was funny.

Wheeeeee!!!

We checked out the petting zoo- chicks, some bunnies, a pig, a few goats, the usual.

Then we spent a good bit of time at the water pumps, racing rubber ducks. Mason and Will really liked pumping the water (Will needed a little help). But Hays mostly wanted to play with the rubber ducks. There were some tears when he had to leave the ducks behind to go on to the next activity.

 

But he stopped crying when we told him it was time to ride the cow train. He'd been wanting to ride it since we got to the farm. We got him buckled in, he was all smiles, super excited. Then he realized that train was pulling out without mommy. Cue the tears. We buckled him in with Mason and thought that wpould solve the problem, but no. More tears. Finally, we gave up, took him out and sent the train on its way, sans Hays. And wouldn't you know that the minute he realized his brothers were going to ride the train without him, he started crying again! You can't win.

Hays might have cried, but Will was all about it!

After the train ride, the kids climbed the hay mountain.

I'm king of the world!!!

Then we checked out the corn cannon and the pumpkin slingshot. The corn cannon was like a big, hydraulic potato gun. It was cool, but kind of loud when it fired. Mason and Will liked it, but it scared Haysie half to death. More tears. In fact, three days later he's still talking about how "the kern cannon scared me!" So it was time to wrap up the family fun at the farm.

Despite the tears, all three kids had a really good time. And I have all these lovely pictures to share with you. Almost worth the $52 we had to spend on admission!