We found a nice farm not far from the house that had a huge pumpkin patch and other activities - so off we went to get ourselves a nice big one to carve for this coming halloween. There was a big corn playpen, petting zoo, hay maze, hay ride and of course pumpkins you can pick right off the vine.

It rained the day before so it was a little bit muddy but nothing terrible to walk through. There were lots of decent size pumpkins of all different shapes, sizes and colors but what look great on paper to pick your own pumpkins comes to a quick realization that you have to carry that heavy monster back from the patch to the cashier :) So our thoughts of getting a winning state fair 50 pounder was dashed and we settled for a more manageable 20lb pumpkin..lol

Now it is up to Mom to find a better Halloween outfit for Mateo since Dad's little Yoda outfit last year didn't really fit a 1mo old :) I'm still gunning for him to be a Pirate Ninja (c'mon what's better than that?!) - we'll see..

Rest of the pictures here in our Columbus section of the photo gallery.