Vala's Pumpkin Patch

If you live in Nebraska and have kids, you know that a trip to Vala's Pumpkin Patch is a MUST! So, we have been taking Sawyer and the Day Care kids to Vala's for the past couple of years and it's so much fun every time! We went with my good friends, Emily, Camille and Laney who all brought their day care kids too! So we had a large bunch :)

And what better way to keep track of a whole motley crew of rambunctious kids than giving them matching outfits?!?! They were SOOOO cute! We got compliments on them all day long of just how adorable they looked :)

One of the kid's favorite stops is the petting zoo part (Emily and I always cringe a little bit-it's just a stinky germ fest....). We got little buckets of food pellets for the kids to feed to the goats, sheep, camels, lamas, and a huge bull! Sawyer and his friend Jack thought that using the contraption to get the food to the bull was like the best thing since soft toilet paper.

Hand sanitizer anyone?

The kids made their way through a corn maze, went into a slightly haunted house, climbed up the tree fort, watched the pumpkin cannon and best of all-went flying down the two story slide! They come flying out the bottom sooo fast!

Then it was on to the pig races! They have this little play that they do and they start out with the little tiny piglets and work their way up to the huge hogs. The kids know that the farmer asks for volunteers to cheer for the pigs as they race and they all wanted to be picked SO bad!

Sawyer stretched his hand up so high, it practically came out of it's socket!

And how could he not get picked?!?! Look at that face!!

After lunch we made our way over to the education barn where they had a lesson on the life of an apple. They learned about bees, pollination, how they keep the trees small for picking and all the different varieties of apples!

But much to our dismay, this was not a good year for the apple orchard....they didn't produce apples so instead of going out to the orchard to pick the apples like we normally do, the kids just got bags of pre-picked apples to take home. Little bit of a bummer, but what can you do?

The kids also got to go in and see this HUGE apple peeling and coring machine!

All in all, it was such a fun filled day! The kids loved it, we loved it and we were all exhausted!

It was a nice and quiet ride home.