This year, my friend had a little pumpkin patch set up at her house and available to kiddos. Yesterday, we swung on by to let Anthony, Molly, and Timothy pick one out and see what other fun she had going on. Ohhhhh did they love the goats and the little piggies! So dang cute! What a fun activity to add to all our Fall time fun. Thanks, Lacey! We really appreciated the invite out and think what you did was just so dang wonderful! Loved your set up!
After my friend's pumpkin patch, we headed on over to our neighbor's pumpkin patch where the kids got to pick out a pumpkin there as well! Thanks, Tami! So fun everyone shares some pumpkin love with us! It's truly appreciated! :)
Later that afternoon we headed on back to town so we could join in on all the fun that is Goldendale's Trunk or Treat! We had a super time! I think its awesome our town puts this on every October and we really enjoy being able to take the kids out to
trunk or treat up and down main street. It's so fun running into tons of people you know, seeing all the different costumes, and watching the kids get a kick out of getting candy from all the different decorated car trunks and store fronts. This year there were a lot of extra events, and that's awesome! I hope to see Goldendale's Trunk or Treat grow throughout the years.
As our kiddos get older, we'll
consider going out for the traditional trick or treating on Halloween, but
for now, we enjoy this local Trunk or Treat event and it seems to be enough for the
kids.
Timothy really got into it this year. He knew what was up! We tried to teach him he had to wait for the candy to be given out, but he wasn't having any of that....he would reach right into the candy buckets and just pick out what he wanted. Haha! He was so adorable in his cop costume, no one minded. :) Anthony loved running into his friends, I even managed to get a picture of him and his friend Christian, who also dressed as Captain America! And sweet skeleton Molly...the whole time we we out, all we heard was, "Hi Molly! Hey Molly! Oh hello, Molly!" I told Molly she must be famous with how many of her friends ran over to say hello, hehe.
What an awesome, fun filled day!
With love,
Mama Hauck
We visited the pumpkin patch yesterday!
We usually go to Schell's Corn Maze and Fun Land in Toppenish, WA, but sadly (well, not sad for them, but sad for us because we loved it so much!) the couple who ran the place retired. So the search for a new one was on!
We had intended to go to Bill's Berry Farm in Grandview, WA, but they're closed on Sundays. Darn it. So we wound up heading to Thompson's Farm in Nachese, WA. I must say, it was a super cute place. Lots of activities for the whole family. Thompson's Farm has an awesome set up and it gave you that fun and festive feeling of Fall with music playing and decorations and such. Everyone was friendly.
BUT....too expensive in my humble opinion. $0.50 a lb for pumpkins is a bit steep. Especially for those families with a lot of kiddos or ones who want bigger pumpkins, like us. We loaded on up, before knowing the price per lb, and then wound up putting the 2 biggest pumpkins back after the weigh in. So only the kiddos got pumpkins because we honestly couldn't afford it. As it was, we spent $30 on just those 3 pumpkins! Yikes, ridiculous. We won't do that again. We would have put them all back and gone in search of smaller ones, but it rained on us the whole time we were there and we didn't want to make the trek back to the pumpkin patch, so we kept what we had for the kiddos.
I was also disappointed that you had to pay for tickets for each activity. That made me sad. $2 per person to walk the corn maze....$2 to shoot nuts out of a cannon....$2 for a hay ride.....and so on and so forth. That will totally add up to some serious money spent. I asked the lady who checked us out why they did it that way, and she said it's because they don't charge for parking or admission. Well....I guess I should just be glad I didn't have to pay to park in the large, open field then? Haha I mean, I don't know the first thing about running a place like that and what needs to be charged to make a profit, but I do know we can't enjoy all the fun Thompson's Farm has to offer on our family of 5's budget. We payed so much for the pumpkins and then spent $8 on a dozen donuts, we didn't have any cash left for the kids to do any of the activities.
With all that said, if you've got the cash and don't mind paying, Thompson's Farm is for you. I told the kiddos if we choose to go there again next year, we will either get smaller pumpkins, or do pumpkins elsewhere so we can actually have the cash to enjoy the activities they have there. They all agreed on that plan.
We DID have a good time though! The kids loved their time in the pumpkin patch picking out
pumpkins, and the little bit of rain actually made it more fun. ;) The donuts they have there are also divine. Seriously. Just like the ones I had growing up when I went with my family to the pumpkin patch.
Anyway, my family review on the place. Accompanied with adorable pumpkin patch photos!
With love,
Mama Hauck
