The Pumpkin Farm

Every year, even before Austen and Adler, Tom and I ventured to Goebbert's Pumpkin Farm in Barrington to pick out pumpkins for Halloween. This is Austen's third year visiting the pumpkin farm and each year just gets better and better because he can do more.

This year he walked around and picked out his own pumpkins, trying to lift even the heavy ones. He played hide and seek behind the cut outs of the Peanuts, Disney and Sesame Street characters you could take pictures with and he ate a lot of kettle corn and had fun riding the pony once again this year.

I have to say though, what he was most attracted to was the tractor. They had a hay ride pulled by a tractor that took you around a big cornfield and went through a haunted barn. Austen didn't much care for the barn but he loved watching and riding in the tractor. I think he told everyone when he got to school on Monday that he went on a "tracker" and it was "cary!"