It's the Great Pumpkin!

After a fun day of church and family-lunch yesterday, Chris took me to the berry farm by our house to go pumpkin-picking! I was really excited for 2 reasons. (1) I'd never been to the berry farm before and (2) I love the holiday season! In my mind, the holiday season starts in September (because that's when my birthday is), doesn't end until January, and is always worth getting excited about. And luckily for me, Chris tolerates my over-the-top enthusiasm with smiles and, in some cases, encouragement.

We got to the berry farm and had to wait in a LONG line to even get in, and then an even LONGER line to get on the hay ride out to the pumpkins, but it was fun to get a chance to look around at everything, and once we started riding out to the pumpkins, it was well worth the wait. There were about a million pumpkins out there, and Chris and I both had an idea of the pumpkins that we each wanted. He wanted a big one that would have a lot of seeds to eat, and I wanted a round one with a pretty color. I found what I was looking for pretty quickly because most pumpkins are round and orange, but the one Chris was looking for took a little longer.

Me with my pumpkin!

Ok, that's an understatement. He literally walked through most of the pumpkin patch (and it was a HUGE pumpkin patch) looking for the one that he wanted. When he came back to where I was waiting though, he had with him a pretty decent sized pumpkin as well as several cute little ones for me! Success!! We took our prizes and bypassed what looked like an hour wait for the hay ride back, choosing instead to walk. For about a mile. With 6 pumpkins. Lucky we're determined! When we finally got back to the main farm to pay for our pumpkins, Chris had to get loaded down with all our pumpkins in order to get the "as many pumpkins as you can carry for $20" deal. I still don't know how he did it. But somehow he did, and we got to take all 6 pumpkins home with us, to be carved next week before Trunk or Treat at our church!

Chris carrying all of our pumpkins!

While we did get some pretty awesome pumpkins out of our time at the berry farm, the time we spent together was the best thing to come out of it, which was really the whole point of going anyway! We could have gotten pumpkins from WalMart for way cheaper, but part of why I am still so in love with Chris after our 6 years together is that we take time to do things like this every so often. We get out of the house and just spend time together. And we're silly, ridiculous, and, some people might say immature, but we always have fun! It feels like when we first started dating, but even better because of our years together. And that is even sweeter than the AWESOME pumpkin pie that I'm going to get to make with some of the pumpkins we picked.

All of our pumpkins on our front step.