Pumpkins!

Grace and I went on her first "field trip" to McCall's Pumpkin Patch with the little class she and I have been attending.

We rode on a big charter bus, which was fun...

until it broke down on the side of I-40...



a nice police woman stopped to help us and let the kids try on her hat.



An hour+ later a new bus came to rescue us,
and we made it to the pumpkin patch.

Grace picked out a cute little pumpkin,

but she didn't want to pick it up herself once she saw it was all muddy on the bottom!

We had a hayride out to and from the pumpkin patch. Here we are on the ride back with our pumpkins.

After lunch, there were all kinds of things to do. We saw lots of animals.

Grace was yelling at (scolding?) the bunnies for some reason. She also really liked the ducks.

We saw a cow, also named Grace, get milked...

...and played in the dried-corn box.

There were two big slides built inside of this hill.
They were fast and so much fun!

This was the first time Grace had to wear her warm clothes for any length of time in New Mexico. She discovered her jacket's pockets and then didn't want to take her hands out of them for anything!

We had a lot of fun, despite the bus incident. Next fall we'll have to schedule a family trip out there on a weekend so Brian can come with us.