Pumpkin Fest!

YAAAAAAAYYY!!! Pumpkin Fest was a huge hit this year! Isaac always has a blast at Morning Glory Farm, but this year he had so much fun! We ended up driving to a friends house, and then walking to the festival with them, which worked out very well indeed.

They had such a great turn out, I think it may have been even more crowded than last year! There were Alpacas, pumpkin painting, and carving, a bean bag toss (which Isaac mastered once he put on my sunglasses, "safety first mama" he reminded me) pumpkin bowling, face painting, tons of food, a hay maze which was more like pikes of baled hay stacked inside a tremendously hot green house, hay rides, and best of all. . . PONY RIDES!!

I wasn't sure how Isaac would do with them, but he said he wanted to go, so we paid our $2.00 and waited in line. Turns out, these were no tiny ponies like I thought they'd be. They were horse size ponies! Like a champ, when it was his turn, he walked slowly over, held out his hand for the pony (horse) to sniff him. Then I helped him climb up into the saddle, and he looked at my friend with the camera, and put his arms up! I thought I was going to have a stroke.

There wasn't even anything for him to hold on to!! He had SO much fun, my irrational fear of him falling to his doom quickly disappeared. The horses name was Mickey Blue Eyes, and was so very sweet, I wanted to just bring him home with us.

It has inspired me to bring Isaac to some more pony rides. There is a barn here that advertises they do them by appointment only every week, so I may take them up on that. I think it'd be a fun winter activity.