we went to the PUMPKIN PATCH!!

as soon as fall came knocking on our door i told joey i wanted to go to a pumpkin patch. i was feeling in the fall spirit, (plus since I've been blogging i think about my life and how i can blog about things) and thought that going and picking our own pumpkins would be something fun for us to do. after i got joey to agree to go i looked up pumpkin patches around us and found one called patch's pumpkin farm, it wasn't to far away from us and sounded like it was pretty good! i started to get excited as the week went on, and it is safe to say that i was way more excited than joey.. evidence you ask?? well i made up a song on the way to the pumpkin patch that pretty much consisted of me saying pumpkin patch over and over.. but it caught on and before i knew joey was singing the quite catchy song too! (it really wasn't catchy, and joey only sang it to make fun of me but hey he was singing right?!) once we made it to patch's pumpkin farm we got to pick up a wheelbarrow and some handy dandy stem clippers to cut the pumpkins off the vine and set out to find the perfect pumpkins! it was really muddy and for some reason i was expecting the pumpkins to be huge but they were kinda just normal.. we started looking for pumpkins and we found a lot of contenders so we piled them all into our wheelbarrow to decide which ones we wanted. after looking for a few minutes we decided we had some keepers already and chose two out of our pile and took them to get weighed! our pumpkins weighed nineteen pounds!! all in all we spent six dollars and 25 cents for two great pumpkins and a walk through a pumpkin patch as well as some great pictures with scarecrows and some quality time together!

the pumpkin patch was a success and i definitely want to go back again :)

Patch's Pumpkin farm

checking out some pumpkins.. gotta make sure we get quality pumpkins!!

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pumpkin clippers to the rescue!!

clipping a pumpkin :)

joey with our winning pumpkins

the scarecrow!

joey as a scarecrow haha

Now of course you cant get pumpkins and not carve them! so we took our pumpkins home and pulled out our handy pumpkin carving kit that i bought from hobby lobby (my new favorite store, still cant believe i had never gone before!) we both chose our designs, i picked a ghost and joey picked a scary jack-o-lantern face. we had fun pulling out the pumpkin guts and carving our pumpkins together, which surprisingly turned out way better than i thought they would! here check it out..

before they got cut open

joey carving his pumpkin :)

my ghost pumpkin!

joey's spooky jack-o-lantern!

the finished products

and of course after they have been lit up, not gonna lie they are quite awesome :)