Pumpkin Patch

We headed out to RiverView Mounds Century Farm for our annual trip to the pumpkin patch!  

Our friends Lynse, Gavin and Trenton joined us.  

You may remember Lynse and Gavin from back when we were in Germany.  We met the Schmidts right before James deployed to Iraq in 2007.  Lynse and I were pregnant at the same time and unbeknownst to us were in labor at the same time (she was in Germany while I was in Virginia!).  Kemper and Gavin share a birthday and were good buddies until we moved back to the States.  As we have learned, it's a small world within the Army and the Schmidts recently relocated to Ft. Campbell!  Kemper and Gavin are in the same pre-k class and the live just a few streets away - the buddies have picked up where they left off but with the addition of Gavin's little brother, Trenton!

It's so sweet and fun to see these guys all grown up (ha, at the ripe old age of 4!)!  

RiverView Mounds has so many fun things for the kiddos to play with!  The log swing was fun as was the tube slide!  We knew the boys would sleep well after this trip as many times as they ran up the hill for the slide!  

It was so nice because we got there right as they opened and basically had the place to ourselves!  The boys ran from one thing to another and it was a beautiful day!

Hudson hung out in the Ergo while we walked around.  We had our Ergo carrier when Kemper was little but didn't use it much unless we were traveling.  With Hudson, I have LOVED using different carriers and wraps with him.  It's so nice to have 2 free hands for when Kemper needs something and I don't have to worry about lugging the stroller everywhere.  

Hudson got to go on his first hayride at RiverView Mounds.  

Our little pumpkin wasn't quite sure what to think of the hayride.  He sat very still, just taking it all in.  Once he discovered the hay, his main goal was to get it to his mouth.  Kemper, Gavin and Trenton LOVED the hayride....they were perched on their knees the entire time.  

Cute little pumpkin on a log!

Trenton is such a sweetheart and loves Hudson.   

Hudson seems to be enjoying his first trip to the pumpkin patch!

Kemper conquering the mound of hay.  

Little pumpkin all tuckered out.  

What a little stinker!

Gavin and Kemper found the pumpkin they wanted...it was just a bit too heavy for them to carry!

We had a wonderful time at RiverView Mounds.  We discovered this little gem of a farm our first year in Tennessee for an Easter festival.  They do Easter festivals, Fall festivals and even Winter/Christmas festivals. It's a good size - not too big and not too small.  Plenty to do and they're adding more and more every year!  Kemper and Hudson took great naps when we got home and we have lots of great memories from this years trip to the pumpkin patch!