Pumpkin Land!

I seriously love how much better having a kid makes holidays! We were so excited for Halloween and we wanted to do something special with Evie to get into the mood, so we went to Pumpkinland! It's a little pumpkin patch put on by a local garden center in Orem. My family used to go when I was younger, so definitely a little nostalgic for me ;)

 Evie was a little bit tired and slightly grumpy (which actually just made it difficult to get any good pictures of her) but she loved it! She's really into all things "Halloween" (she's going to be festive, just like her mama!) so she had a great time!

First thing we saw when we arrived: giant inflatable Halloween decorations! They had a ghost that popped out of a pumpkin (which she thought was great) and even a creepy vampire Tigger (she loves Whinny the Pooh AND creepy things... So very perfect, lol)

Next we went out into the corn maze/pumpkin field, which wasn't quite so exciting (she didn't get the point of walking through a bunch of corn...) but they did have a "secret tunnel" and some Halloween decorations that she kept trying to give hugs to, haha.

They had a bunch of these little picture take-y things (I really can't think of what to call them...) out in the corn, and Evie thought they were cool, but didn't quite get how they worked.. She wanted to look through the "windows", but she also wanted to see the fun side! So we have a lot of pictures of her trying to see what's on the other side, lol.

Evie is a huge fan of animals and they had a bunch just for her! There were bunnies, chickens, cows, goats, and all kinds of birds. Pretty cool!

Probably her second favorite part of the whole thing was the little playground. There were tunnels to crawl through, things to climb on, and even a giant pumpkin to go inside!

We tried really hard to get a "family pic" buuuuuut, cranky Evie just wouldn't have it... Love this picture anyway, haha.

Probably Evie's favorite part of the WHOLE experience was the bouncy house... This was her very first time trying one out, and I'm pretty sure we were just reintroducing her to her natural habitat, lol. They had a big inflatable slide that you had to climb up some ladder-y rungs to get too. Evie REALLY wanted to do it, and she tried and tried and tried, but the ladder was too worn down so she kept slipping and couldn't make it to the top no matter how hard she tried. I really couldn't believe how determined she was to do it though, I would have given up after the first couple attempts, but she really wanted to climb up that slide!!

At the very end, Evie got to pick out her very own "baby" pumpkin! It was super cute how excited she was about it; she HAD to hold it in the car seat with her on the way home. Also, I just have to mention, we got three pumpkins for super cheap... it was an awesome deal! So glad we didn't just grab some at Wal-Mart.

We had so much fun, we really wanted to go again (maybe sometime when Evie wasn't so tired...) but we didn't get the chance, unfortunately, with school schedules and sleep schedules :( I hope they have it again next year, but I've heard rumors this might have be the last time they do it! So sad! I'm glad we got to go this year!