Abby's Day - Part 1

We always seem to celebrate Abby's Day late, and this year was no exception. We weren't together as a family on September 18th, the "official" day she legally became ours, so we didn't celebrate it until last Monday. We asked her if she wanted to go play in the snow or go to the pumpkin patch and the zoo, and we were pretty surprised she didn't choose the snow.


Daddy had a few days off, so Monday morning we went out to breakfast and then headed to Sauvie Island Farms to get a pumpkin. It was a gorgeous day and the first time we've ever been to a pumpkin patch here in Oregon when we didn't leave covered in mud! Since it was a school day, we pretty much had the whole farm to ourselves, which was really fun.


We went to the animal barn to see the goats, lambs, calf, turkeys, chicks, rabbits, cow, and other animals. We entered the contest to name the calf: Abby picked the name Bitsy and Ryan picked Cowlick.


There was a HUGE hay pyramid to climb on,


a hay maze,


a short corn maze for kids (as well as a large one that we skipped this year) where you had to follow the path and find the lost animals,


a pumpkin slingshot,


a hay ride which had all to ourselves,


and of course the pumpkin fields (and gourds too!).


We probably spent two hours at the farm and only $9.50, which included three pumpkins, two gourds, the kiddie mazes, and a bottle of water. What a bargain!