Thanksgiving weekend.....the pumpkin patch

As I've previously mentioned, I do like my pumpkins, so this year we decided to take Seb to a proper pumpkin patch to pick a prize specimen for us to carve for Halloween. We dragged Mandy, Kelly and Hunter along to Prairie Gardens just north of Edmonton and had a fun but chilly morning on the farm.

We awoke to a white and frosty Saturday morning in Beaumont. It was a chilly -1 when we set off in the happy bus for the pumpkin patch.....Bbrrrrrrrrr!

Glittery frost on the hot tub lid.

Crammed into the happy bus. Seb's eyes already glued to to the DVD.

We arrived at the pumpkin patch early and, as usual, Neil made friends immediately.




Hunter checking out the pumpkins.



He chooses a nice small one. Easy to carry unlike ours as you'll see later.

Hunter and Kelly in the haunted house.

Goats bottoms.

Hunter herds the goats while it looks like Neil, in the background, is preparing to mount one......

Surprise, surprise......he did mount a goat.

Mandy looses Hunter in the corn maze.

Neil chasing a stray goat. Poor thing, it was terrified!

Alpacas!

Seb helps Daddy choose a pumpkin to be launched in the pumpkin canon.

After receiving some advise from a passing six year old boy, Neil decides on the perfect pumpkin to launch from the canon. If he hits the target we get a years free food at Boston Pizza!

Ready, Aim.........

FIRE!!

He missed.

Then Kelly gets a try...

And after a serious discussion on what angle to aim the cannon he also misses.

Can you spot Neil amongst the pumpkins??

Ahhh! scary! Neil with hair!

Seb and Hunter have fun in the wagon.

Oh Neil, we can't take you anywhere!

Pumpkins, pumpkins everywhere! Which one do we choose?

The biggest and the best of course!!

Getting it back to the car is the challenge. Poor Seb get's chucked out of his stroller because he weighs less than the pumpkin.

What a beauty!

Seb in action....

A walk in the park....

Yesterday afternoon we took Doog out for a walk with Nigel and Jenna. We decided to go to the park in Millwoods instead of our local little off-leash park and I'm so glad we did because this park has a path through the woods and the trees were absolutely beautiful!

Seb had a great time chasing Daddy and Doog through the woods!

The paths are too rough to take a stroller through so Seb spent most of the time riding Neil's shoulders. By the end of our walk Neil was complaining that his head had been scratched to bits by Seb's little nails diggiing in to hold on, Ouch!!

I like this one, look at that big grin!

Seb cleaverly hiding my big tummy!

Bright red berries that looked good enough to eat. (probably deadly though so I didn't stop to snack.)

Seb playing in the leaves, a second later he was stuffing them into his mouth, tasty!

Jenna, ear's a-flapping and tounge hanging out.

Doog stopping for a drink. I was amazed that he actually went into the water, he's usually totally hydrophobic.

Headed back to the car. That's my new van.