Fir Point Farms

A friend recently commented that I haven't been posting as many pictures on social media of our family on Saturday adventures. That's because, ever since we made the decision in August for Ben to go back to school, he has devoted every Saturday to studying for the GMAT. That leaves me as a GMAT widow and although I am adventurous, I am not as likely to take the kids on adventures by myself. However one Saturday in October Ben stopped studying a 4pm and we took the kids to a local pumpkin patch.

This boy. Pumpkins everywhere and all he wanted to do is splash in the puddles.

Cute Nayeli picking a pumpkin

There were games and a train ride at the farm, but when I went in to buy tickets at 4:45pm, they told me they were closing at 5. We were bummed, but they gave us a bag of cider donuts that were going to be thrown away and told us to come back again. So we ate donuts and the kids splashed in puddles. It wasn't such a bust after all.

We purchased a few pumpkins and took them home to paint them. After all the issues Teddy has had with knives lately there was no way we were going to carve them.

We returned to the pumpkin patch a few weeks later. Ben was going to be gone on a business trip for the weekend, so he took off the Thursday beforehand to go with us.

I dream of having a home with a tire swing someday

Teddy was not as excited as Nayeli about the tire swing

We also went to pet the animals. The goats were a favorite.

Inside the hazelnut house, or filberts, as they call them here

By the time we had explored much of the farm, three school buses full of excited Kindergartners arrived. As you can imagine, it quickly became too chaotic for our family so we looked for a more secluded place. Ben remembered seeing a sign at a trail head down into the ravine behind the farm. The sign read, "Farm Trail- enter at your own risk!" Nothing that could deter us! Adventure is out there!

The way was steep, wet and muddy but we had a great time. It was quiet and beautiful, and we loved exploring the make-shift path and bridges that someone had put in them self.

She got herself dressed. Pink, pink and more pink.

She told Ben, "I'm going to make a cute face". Mission accomplished.

Oregon is so stunningly lush and green- I will miss it so much when we leave.

It was such a fun day at the pumpkin patch and so nice to have some time with Ben. The kids and I have sure missed him lately, but soon the GMAT will be over and then life will get back to normal. We look forward to more Saturday (or in this case Thursday) adventures all together.