Blessington Farms

Today we headed to Blessington Farms for their annual fall festival.  There are a few of these "farms" outside of town that do these types of things, but Blessington Farms is actually a working farm where you can pick berries other times of the year. 

The weather was great, and we met a few of our friends there as well.

First we got in a few obligatory pumpkin patch pictures.  She's actually wearing the same dress I made for her two years ago.  This year it makes a nice festive shirt.

Then we headed to do some of the fun activities they had.  Jason walked the barrels a couple of times.  (Matilda was interested, but couldn't quite figure out how to walk it in.)  There was also these big slides that a ton of people were playing on.  Matilda would walk up the hill to the top, but then decide not to go down them.

Then we headed to see the animals.  We saw snakes, chickens, goats, sheep, camels, donkeys, cows, and birds.  Matilda got to hold a chicken and then feed them.  We even saw a chicken lay an egg while we were there.

About that time, Laura, Joel, and Elijah joined up with us.  Matilda and Elijah had plenty of fun on the huge jump zone.

 Then we rode the barrel train and got a snow cone.

 We got a few more pumpkin pictures in before we left.

Other than crazy bad allergies, I thought it was a pretty fun morning.

For funsies, here's a comparison pic from the pumpkin patch two years ago.  At least she didn't do the deadpan face in every picture this year.  Hehe.