The Pumpkin Patch

Our annual trip to the Pumpkin Patch was a hit! The pumpkins were slim pickings this year due to the soggy spring planting conditions but we didn't let that stop us - we just declared this year the year of the GREEN PUMPKIN!

Matthew and his pumpkin. The Cirillo Family pumpkin rule is that you have to be able to lift it if you want to take it home with you. Usually that keeps the kids in check but they have been known to test their strength from time to time.

Olivia and her pumpkin.
Nick Nack gets a seat in the wheelbarrow.


We visited a new patch this year - The Farm. It's in Snohomish - just about 5 miles further north than the farm we usually visit. It was wet the day we went but even then we so enjoyed the farm animals, the corn kernal pit and the hay maze in the barn. Had it been a drier, perhaps sunnier day, we might've also enjoyed all the outside play areas they had created. As we were leaving, we decided The Farm was to be our new annual pumpkin patch destination.

Daddy and Nickleby.
One last photo in the hay maze before we made our mad dash to the car in the torrential downpour that had started while we were in the barn.