Lynd's Fruit Farm

So...here's the thing about the season of fall - we all know it won't last. 

A few glorious weeks and then, poof!  It's gone. 

And, while it feels like the shortest of seasons -it's easily 

the most brilliant.  The trees are turning the most gorgeous shades of red, orange, and yellow              (thanks to a good rain)... there are mini gourds galore (thanks to Max), 

apples abound (thanks to Lynd's fruit farm), and well - 

we intend to celebrate all that to the fullest...which is kind of how 

we found ourselves at Lynd's Fruit Farm this week (even though we've 

already been to like four other pumpkin farms). 

And this visit - well it was truly a celebration of all things fall!

We started at the farm market...

(would you look at the size of those mums!!)..

And the farm market had a minion made of hay.... so

that was pretty exciting :)

We also made time to sit in the apple chair

(could Max's grin BE any bigger - please read that 

in your best Chandler Bing voice.  And if you don't 

understand that reference, I'm not sure we can 

be friends). 

We kept trying to get Max to pick a pumpkin - 

but he just wanted to stand among pumpkins. 

In true Carrie fashion - I picked the one with the most

glorious stem. Some might find it ridiculous to 

pay $13 for a pumpkin - but all in the name of fall 

you know ;)  And if it's going to sit on your 

porch until Thanksgiving, it better be a good looking pumpkin. 

We measured ourselves - and Max finally stood

still long enough to get a picture.  Then, he wanted

Mama to get measured, and then Mims to get measured,

and then repeat times three.  I think we're all pretty clear

on how tall we are. 

He finally settled on this pumpkin (above).  And 

every time we went to take a picture of it - he put 

it directly in front of his face.  This was the only decent picture

I got before he decided he no longer wanted to be carrying it any more. 

Have you ever had an apple cider slushie?  

Oh man, they are so delish!  I didn't get much 

of this one though because Max commandeered it away 

from me like 3.2 seconds after they poured it. He kept 

sucking all the cider out of the bottom of it and 

wondering why the ice looked funny on the top. 

After all the fun at the Farm Market - we waited in 

a gigantic traffic jam in order to make our way to the play area. 

I forgot to ask Max if he needed to go to the bathroom before 

we left (#momfail) and then three minutes after sitting in 

aforementioned traffic - he pronounced that he did in fact

have to go potty.  I told him to squeeze his legs together

and hold it.  And then I squeezed my hands together

and prayed. Hard. 

As luck would have it - we made it there - accident free!

He peed right outside the car (why is peeing outside always

so exciting??) and then ran right over to the play area.

Please note - he wanted to go up this enormous hill, 

so we did. At the top, he picked the muddiest, steepest

path to go down - so I grabbed his hand.  He promptly

fell on his bottom, meanwhile I'm dragging him behind 

me because I can't stop because the hill's so steep. 

We make it to the bottom and he announces to everyone

within hearing distance that "mommy dragged me down the hill"

and then I check his pants and it basically looks like

he pooped himself from all the mud.  

However, he didn't seem to mind (probably because he couldn't

see it) so we carried on. 

We did the barrel train (he chose the caboose spot this time),

bounce house, spider web (cargo net), hay bales, mini corn 

maze, and even climbed to the top of the wooden tower. 

We finished with a tractor ride out to the apple orchards - 

where we were allowed to pick one apple. 

It was a Jonagold - and it was very tasty!

The tractor driver let Max "drive" and as you

can see from the picture above - he totally hated it :)

What a cheese!

By the time we made it back - Max had eaten half his apple

and half the bag of kettle corn.  No joke - this boy takes after his dad - loves 

himself some kettle corn.  

It was such an adventurous morning at Lynd's Fruit Farm!
All of the farms we visit have your token
fall activities - bounce house, barrel train, corn maze and so on -
but they all are just different enough that there is something
new and fun to try at each one!  Max had so much
fun he fell asleep on the drive home (after telling Mims and
mommy, who got slightly lost to "calm down" - who is this kid?!)
He was probably dreaming of more kettle corn
and our next pumpkin adventure ;) I know I am!

xoxo