Pumpkin Pickin'

We took the kids pumpkin picking today. When we left our house it was an okay day, around 50 degrees so we had the kids put on sweatshirts & away we went. When we got to the farm it was FREEZING. Oh my goodness it was sooooo cold. The car said it was 36 degrees. I looked around & all the other moms have bundled their kids up in coats, gloves & hats. Nope, not this mom, my kids are in sweatshirts...I guess I'm not winning mom of the year this year. Oh well, we are here let's go get some pumpkins. As we sit on the tractor pulled wagon headed out to the pumpkin patch the wind blowing in our faces I realize it has rained everyday here for about a week. Oh yes MUD & not just a little mud, so much mud that the wagon is slipping & sliding & is about to jack knife into the wagon in front of us. Luckily we arrive safe, & all is well. And then we go to get off of the wagon & there are huge puddles of muddy water, nothing but mud & pumpkins as far as the eyes can see. Well what are you going to do, you have driven your family all the way out to this farm, you have braved the freezing temperature, now it's time to get muddy!! Little Lindsey had so much mud on the bottoms of her shoes that she looked a few inches taller. As we trudged through this muddy patch looking for pumpkins we learned that the first pumpkin crop got flooded out this year & the reason why most of the pumpkins are green is because they had to replant & this field is a few weeks away from being ripe. Okay, we are going to persevere & we are going to find ourselves some orange pumpkins. As we looked, we saw green ones, rotten ones, huge ones, white ones & in the end we only found 1 pumpkin that would work. As we ride the wagon back to the farm Derek & I look at each other & he says, "You know they do sell pumpkins at Jewel-Osco,(our version of Albertson's) & it's only a mile from our house. But you know it's all about creating memories.