On Monday, Sarah's preschool class visited Dehn's Pumpkin Patch in Dayton, a few miles away from her school. Sarah and daddy had a good time checking out the huge pumpkin patch, and sitting on the big ones!
Child of the Corn. Eeek!
"Dad, you're embarrassing me in front of my friends!"
"Hurry up and take the picture, please!"
Pumpkins, pumpkins, and more pumpkins.
Sarah and a few of her gal-pals went all DeNiro on a helpless pumpkin and kicked the dirt off of it.
The walk back to the farm was long, so a few of the girls hitched a ride in a pumpkin cart pulled by one of the other dads.
There were free kittens available at the pumpkin patch! Fortunately, we got out of there without having to bring one home.
Sarah and one of her classmates get ready for a hay ride!
Riding through fields of corn on the hay ride.
This little boxer chased us the entire time we were on the hay ride. He had fun chasing the wheels and jumping up and barking alongside us.
The dog even showed us the way through the fields.
Still on the hayride. That's Miss Lisa, one of Sarah's teachers, behind us.
Heading back to the pumpkin patch.
The kids finished their day with a little parachute playtime, and Sarah picked out a 38-pound pumpkin to bring home from the patch.
Rich took the twins and Sarah north to Bowstring last weekend and helped Grandma and Grandpa Gordon split some more firewood and pulled the dock out of the lake for winter. Grandpa got out his old John Deere tractor and gave rides to Lucas and Caleb.
Some of Rich's group of cyclist friends got together a few weekends ago for lunch at the French Meadow Cafe in Minneapolis. Here are John, Rich, Curt, Bob and Suzanne.
And Mary, Julie (who organized the gathering) and John.
Trying the balance beam.
