Chad & Abby: Rowley's Red Barn

On Saturday, we went with a couple friends from our ward to the pumpkin patch at Rowley's Red Barn! It was so much fun. It's in south Santaquin, and if you're anywhere around here, I highly recommend making the trip before winter settles in. You can take a hayride around their orchards and to the pumpkin patch, where you pick your own pumpkins, play on huge slides that you ride down on burlap sacks, go though a fruit crate maze, and play around on an old farm truck and tractor. Obviously it's kind of designed with kids in mind, and we had a blast. You pick up a tractor and head back from there, and back at the red barn, you can buy homemade ice cream and all sorts of other farm fresh goodies, plus their produce is available to buy right there on the farm. Oh my word, their apples are amazing. And so is the pumpkin butter. Chad summed up our feelings pretty well when he said, "I don't want to be the kind of people who come to these places once a year to take pictures." Meaning, we want a (small) farm so bad it hurts.

Anyway, awesome planner-aheader that I am, I forgot our camera in the car when we left on the hayride, and the ride was $5 a person round-trip, so I wasn't about to head back for the thing. Happily, our friends took pictures of us and sent them in an email. In a word: lifesaver!! That was really nice. So here are some pictures from our trip to the pumpkin patch.

These pictures were hilarious to take because Aaron (husband of family we went with) was in the background doing this crazy dance to try to make Emmett smile. Emmett never cracked, but we did.

Kid-wise, not a super successful picture. Haha!

I love this one.

Emmett baaaarely smiled on these slides; he had a poker face all the way down just about every time, but he loved it. He kept running back every time we went off to do something else.