Last Sunday I planned a little family outing to a pumpkin patch. Now the first sign that this was a bad idea should have been the fact that I planned it. See when I plan things (especially if my friend Megan is involved, but she actually wasn't this time) they tend to tank. I don't know what the deal is. None the less, I planned and we went, some reluctantly. I talked it up big time on the way there... we'll be sitting on bales of hay, there's a bunch of farm animals that we can pet, pumpkins that we can pick out of the actual patch, and think of how cool you'll look in your orange shirts! Turns out it's a hayless tractor ride, animals behind fences that aren't hungry and that you can't really pet, and pumpkins that are lined up on a board for you to "pick" from the patchless patch, and 50 other kids looking cool in their orange shirts! Oh, and then there's the mother trying to take a picture of her 3 men that went over as well as usual (that mother would be me). Reichen won't look at the camera, Avery won't look at the camera, and Wayne has his patience tried with the camera lady saying "one more time". Next year I'm going to the pumpkin patch my friend Jana suggested. And the boys will be forced to go because momma has planned.
4 comments:
I'm just laughing hard at this blog! The pictures really do say it all..... none of the boys were interested in pumpkins!
I too am laughing. That last picture of the three of them is priceless. You can read their feelings on their face!! I've had a few tankable family outings myself. They may be bad memories, but they are memories all the same!
Finally, a failed outing that I wasn't involved in! That's why I send mine to the pumpkin patch with their preschool. I don't have to do a thing but put their car seats on the bus. Zoe had fun picking her pumpkin out at WalMart.:) You should try that next year!
oh how funny!!! Take me next time:)
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