Baggenstos Pumpkin Farm

Fall has come to Portland. The air is brisk and the leaves are turning all kinds of colors.  It is SO nice to be living in a place with more defined seasons... and autumn is my favorite.  And with the fall comes all kinds of autumn events.  So today I joined Garrett and Paige's preschool on their pumpkin patch trip.  We couldn't have had a better day for it... cool and sunny!  First they loaded the kids onto a tractor hay ride to the pumpkin patch.

Each child got to pick a pumpkin.  And these weren't small pie pumpkins... they were HUGE (much bigger than the ones they're holding in the first photo below).  They were so big that the kids couldn't carry them, which meant this twin Mama was hauling two around.  Garrett picked one of the only green ones in the area.  I kinda like that he had to have the one pumpkin that was different.

After they picked their pumpkins, they gave the kids a talk about potato farming which is their next biggest crop.  You can see the wall of potatoes behind them in that first picture.  Each child got a whole BAG of potatoes at the end.  So for us... TWO bags!  Then the we enjoyed some of the amenities of their play area.  This included some farm animals, water pumping races, a playground, a straw bale maze, and tractors to climb on!

After we picked Molly up from school, she was EXTREMELY disappointed that she missed out on the farm trip.  But Baggenstos is only about five minutes from our house, so I piled them into the car and let Molly pick out her very own pumpkin (the BIGGEST one she could find).  Needless to say, we will have quite a selection of pumpkins to carve this year!