Tanaka Farms

At the beginning of October Avery's joy school took a field trip to Strawberry Farms. Avery was really excited, can't you tell?! We took a hay ride to the garden area where there was a pumpkin patch, corn maze, and a vegetable garden. Here is Ave with her little joy school buddies (minus 1).

Pierson and Avery liked the tractor ride and had fun seeing everything while we were driving around. Pierson of course just wanted to stand up on the bench the entire time so he had to sit on Mom's lap for most of the ride.

They had a cute little corn maze there. This is the only picture that I got of the four of them in front of the sign, but I feel like it sums up our trip. At least one of the kids was whining at all time, one was being crazy, and the other two were holding it together for the time being. It was a really hot and humid day and we walked in the corn maze and then quickly found the exit. Each of us had our toddler and then a baby so holding squirmy babies and trying to reign in the toddler on a hot hot day = what in the world were we thinking when we walked into the corn maze?

We went up to the pumpkin patch after the maze and luckily a cloud gave us a break from the hot sun. The kids had fun sitting and playing and rearranging all the pumpkins.

Here's Pierson playing amidst the pumpkins and loving it. He thought they were balls or "daa" (really close Pierson... really close).

Avery even cheered up when she saw all the pumpkins.

We went to the vegetable garden next where the kids got to pick their own veggies. This was probably Avery's favorite part. We picked lots of carrots, green beans, and onions. This is a picture of Ave and her best friend (most of the time), S.

I am really sorry that this picture is upside down. (When I was uploading it it said that it was upside down so I went to my gallery where it looked normal but flipped it so it would look normal when I uploaded it and then it is flipped when it actually uploaded.... computers... I tell you sometimes I love them and sometimes I dont)

After we visited the gardens we went back to the main area where they had an animal pen. They had cute lambs and goats. One goat was huge pregnant and due any day and my heart went out to her. Pierson LOVED the animals. That is probably an understatement. He just wanted to be in the center of them all, petting them, getting kisses from them, hugging them, just plain being close to them. He was so excited the whole time. Just look at that cheesy grin.

Here is P and A. A did not love the animals so much. He didn't want anything to do with them. I think this picture is so funny cause P is so happy and A is so NOT happy. Haha. It was really funny in person.
And Avery found a nice little spot for her to sit AWAY from the animals while everyone else was having fun.
UNTIL....
Haha. One of the goats wanted to come say hi and give her a kiss. And pee and poo right next to her. Gross. But it was funny to watch her freak out.
We had fun on that hot hot day at Tanaka Farms. I would love to go there again, especially in the spring or summer because they have strawberries and watermelons for you to pick... yum! Just hopefully next time it won't be so hot.