Elgin Christmas Tree Farm

Uncle Brian and Aunt Jes were nice enough to watch Alex for us Saturday morning so we could take Kate to the Elgin Christmas Tree farm again this year for their annual Pumpkin festival.

The morning started out well with Kate feeding the goats & looking at the other animals, but seemed to go downhill from there.



I really wanted to get another cute picture of her in the pumkins like we did last year,

but that didn't seem to be in Kate's plan! She saw the swings and wanted nothing to do with the pumpkins!


After swinging, she had a meltdown when we took her off the swings and we headed over to ride the hay ride. She did seem to like the hayride I guess. We got off and she loved playing on the money bars with Mike,


But then she had another meltdown . . . .

We decided to ride the hay ride for a while, and then see if we could try to take some pictures with the pumpkins. Here is our attempt:




Well, those pictures are about the best we could get. The only way I could even get here to sit there was to give her my Iphone which she loves to play with. I think it is going to be a long year with her as being 2! I was so looking forward to a morning where Mike and I could give her all our attention and do something fun, but oh man, were we ready to leave after 2 hours with our 2 year old!!! So maybe next year will be better!! I think this last picture sums up the morning perfectly!!