Columbus Pumpkin Farms

Hope you're all having an amazing week...we are loving

every minute of October (the best month of the year)! The only problem?

The calendar always fills up fast this season - so we

started our pumpkin farm trips early.  It's hard to tell

whose more excited for these farm trips - Max or Mama?

When it comes to this first farm we visited - probably

Mama.  This place is called "The Orchard" - and it's

gotten even better since our visit last year.

 

Max spotted the tractors from the car and

took a spin (or three) on each of them...

we actually had to convince him to come off the

tractor and into the "kids area".

The best part of the kids area is the bounce pillow!

I love it because they invite parents to bounce too. :)

There is also a giant slide where you have to

climb up the built in tractor tires to get to the top. 

This year, Max also wanted to try the kiddie zip line!

Papa Rob had to help of course but he hung

in there like champ!

I've already documented our family love for the

cider slushie - and those are readily available at

The Orchard too.  Sadly- I only bought one - and

upon letting Max hold it - he looked up at Papa Rob

and I and squealed "There's just enough for me"!

So long slushie. Thankfully, I also purchased a

pumpkin donut - which Papa Rob took care of :)

New this year at The Orchard were all the hay bales to

climb on.  Max had zero fears when it came to

scaling three stories worth of hay. Oh my!

We finished up our visit by enjoying a hayride

around the actual apple orchards, checking out the

cows in the pasture, seeing the animals in the barn,

and picking out a pumpkin (the only stipulation I

gave here was "you have to be able to carry it").

 

Our Sunday Funday included another pumpkin

farm visit.  We are honestly so lucky that Columbus

has so many family friendly farms.  This was a new to us

spot called "Leeds Farm" - and it was awesome!



I heard Rob describing pumpkin farm visits to Grandpa

Jim the other week on the phone and he said, "it's

not just picking a pumpkin - it's like an EVENT".

He was not wrong. Literally, it's less about the

pumpkins at these places and more about the fun!

They had a barrel train, zip line (both big and small),

horse drawn carriage, bounce pillow, pig races,

combine slide, and corn pit. 

Leeds Farm had outdoor and indoor slides. 

 The slides (seen in the below picture) were Max's

favorite.  He would climb up the hay bales, slide

down the tubes, and run by us for a sip of slushie.

I swear he probably did this 20 times. 

And, these slides are surprisingly fast - he

really zoomed down them! 

Leeds had plenty of cute picture opportunities...

my favorite was the little pumpkin house below.

Max blew through there and could only

be convinced to stop when it meant using my

phone to take a picture.



Max captured Papa Rob and me (see below) in

front of the pumpkin house. Sidenote:  He managed

to get this pose from us 168 times because he loves

to just hold his finger down on the shutter button.

Our only picture with the three of us - and my new

favorite can be found below. Max just loves to

put his face in all of those cut outs. And I'm

not going to complain one bit ....because the picture

turned out pretty cute! :)

Honestly, I knew with traveling for a week in mid October

that we would have to work hard to cram in the fall fun early and

I think we accomplished that!  But, I still have a few more

surprises for Max in store! Stay tuned!  :) 

 

xoxo