We took a trip out to the Pumpkin Patch yesterday with Morgan and Michael. Kelli joined us and brought Kayla and Connor along to enjoy the fun. Kayla seemed to have a blast, and enjoyed checking out all the farm animals. We got lucky and one of the pigs had recently had piglets, so Morgan and I spent a good amount of time watching them root around in their pen. There was one that was tiny and runty that the other babies were picking on. Poor little guy.
We took a bunch of photos, mostly of Kayla's adventures. Check them out here. There are a couple of really good ones of her playing in the patch, as well as some sweet ones of Connor chilling in his ORV. Also, Kayla went on a pony ride, during which she looked positively pissed, but as soon as it was over and she was handed back to mom, she got upset and wanted to get back on - that kid is so funny. She just gets this look of concentration on her face when she's doing something like that (like she always used to do it while swinging on the playset) that makes you think she hates it. But really, I think she's just focusing REALLY hard on how much she's enjoying it.
Morgan and I were a little disappointed with the selection available this year at the pumpkin patch. Last year this farm had an AMAZING amount of pumpkins in all different shapes and sizes - this year, not so much. It looked like they didn't plant as many varieties, and a lot of what was available had either been chewed on by some animal, or was starting to get moldy. We figure it's probably a mixture of the wet weather we had in September and the fact that it was pretty obvious that they didn't plant as many pumpkins to begin with this year. There was a whole section of the field that was chock-full of pumpkinage last year that was full of what looked like soybeans this year. Wah-wah. We still got some nice pumpkins, though, and even found some acorn and butternut squash. And Morgan was able to find a couple of her prized Japanese pumpkins for making delicious soup.
On Friday, Scott and I went out with a few of his coworkers to a bar where Scott had a few beers and proceeded to "drop" (I think it was more like "throw") his phone to the ground, partially shattering the LCD screen. So, now he has lovely bleed marks all over the screen, and, since it's a touch screen, can't use it as effectively. We went and looked at replacement phones at the Sprint store, but he didn't like any of them, so he went online and found a provider that will sell you the screen with instructions on how to switch it out, so he's going to give that a try.
And, I got my ring! I really like it, and it's nice to not have a naked finger anymore. While we were at the pumpkin patch, my hands got really swollen, but I sure as hell didn't take those rings off. They stayed right there on my chubby little sausage fingers.