Black Island Farms 2014

The day before Louis' birthday we went to Black Island Farms for the second year in a row.  It was again so much fun!  We started by taking a tractor ride to the pumpkin patch to pick a pumpkin.  Along the way we stopped and they taught the kids about how carrots and cabbage grow.  

Avery enjoyed picking out the perfect pumpkin and Mary loved all of the dirt to play in.  She really knows how to find dirt.

After everyone picked their pumpkins and was back on the trailer the workers brought over a sunflower and explained why they have them planted around the fields.  They plant them so the birds will eat the sunflowers instead of the pumpkins and other plants.  After they talked about it the worker gave the sunflower to someone on the trailer.  Avery was a little sad she didn't get the sunflower so the nice worker picked a flower from one of the pumpkin vines and gave it to her.

After getting our pumpkins into the car we headed in to look at the animals.

There was a very friendly donkey that thought we had food to share and bit Mary a little bit.

The goose once again honked back and forth with Avery.  I loved it!

After the animals we went over to the slides and spent a lot of time there.  The kids all loved it.

We only left the slides once some older kids came around and were being annoying.

As in sitting on the tops of the slides and blocking them off so no one could go down.

Where were their parents?  Who knows.

This is when our camera died so the rest of the pictures are from my phone.

After the slides we went over to jump in some old tank that was painted like a ghost.  Then over to the train.  Mary wasn't interested in riding the train so her and Louis went back over to some slides. 

 Avery got to ride on the train all by herself!  She's getting to be such a big girl.

During Avery's train ride Mary came and laid in my lap to eat her sandwich and we knew it was time to go so she could nap!  We were sad to go, but had so much fun together!

Black Island Farms

Last Friday we went to the Black Island Farms pumpkin patch.  It is in Syracuse so it was a little bit of a drive, but worth it!  Along with the pumpkin patch they have lots of slides, a kernel pit, tunnels, animals, train rides, bounce house, and other fun things to do.  Avery was looking forward to going to the pumpkin patch for over a month!  We rode on a trailer pulled by a tractor over to the pumpkin patch and they let everyone off to go pick their pumpkins!

After we picked out pumpkins we put them in the back of the van and headed in again.  We ate lunch then went to see some animals.  Our favorite was the goose.  Avery and that goose had a good conversation!  Avery would honk at it and it would honk back at her!  It went on for a good minute.  Avery loved it!  We wanted to stay longer, but there was a line forming waiting for us to move on.  

After the goose we headed over to some fun swings and a hay tunnel.  Then Avery ran off to the slides so we followed her over!

Avery ran off on her own to this big black tube slide.  Louis went after her and she insisted she wanted to go down it.  So Louis took her up, but at the top when she saw how high it was she freaked out!  There was only one way down though!  She was not happy.  

The rest of the day went well.  We played some music, rode on a train, Jon and Louis shot some corn, (Louis won) we went through some more tunnels and down some more slides.  It was such a fun day for all of us at the pumpkin patch!  

Hogle Zoo

Yesterday we took a little field trip to the Hogle Zoo.  We have had this planned for a long time and Avery was looking forward to it so much!  We took this trip with Alisha and Isaac.  We left at 10:30 which is Isaac and Mary's nap time.  Mary fell asleep and slept almost until we got to the zoo, but Isaac was just too interested in Avery to fall asleep I think.
When we got to the zoo we ate our lunch outside then headed in!  Avery was so excited and all she wanted to see was turtles!  Out of everything at a zoo, she wanted to see turtles!  We didn't end up seeing any turtles, we think they might have been in with the snakes and we didn't end up going to see the snakes.  Poor Avery.
We saw lots of fun animals and had such a fun time playing around!