the patch

Most years we don't have the time to browse through an actual pumpkin patch to choose our pumpkins. Since I have to buy 9 I usually wait to buy them from the grocery store when they go out for 10 cents a pound.

That's why I always volunteer for the preschool field trip to the pumpkin patch. After all, how can you pass up a trip to the patch? And, this is my last time with a child in preschool.

And so, Ashlyn and I and her entire class headed off to Pumpkin land.

She was very excited.

There are animals and play places and corn fields and, of course, acres and acres of pumpkins.

Unfortunately, we weren't able to pick from the actual patch. We were herded into the barn where we could choose from the pile of $1 pumpkins (So, I'm not the only cheap one.). Ashlyn didn't know the difference, and she took her pumpkin picking very seriously. And then, from across the pile, she spotted it.

The perfect pumpkin.
For my little pumpkin princess.

Let the carving begin!