Harvest festival

Part of out CSA farm share - which I've raved about many times already - includes tickets to the annual Harvest Festival at Miller Farms.  With the weather getting ready to turn chilly we decided to take advantage of what was potentially the last nice weekend and head up to the farm with Grandma and Grandpa.

The farm was set up with all sorts of rides and activities for the kids - small mazes, riding toys, old planes to explore, giant tractor wheels to climb, and a bouncy "pillow".

Caleb and Sophie wanted to bounce first so headed over there.  It was so much fun even Daddy couldn't resist!

 All the kids quickly discovered that they could get an added "boost" by hanging out near Mike when he jumped (note the girls lying waiting to get bounced!)...

The kids rode some tractor bikes

Then we were off to harvest veggies!

Riding in the trailer out to the fields.

Since it was rather late in the season and we'd already had one frost, we were a bit limited in what was available but still found a good amount of

Onions...

Carrots...

popping corn (right on the cob - still not sure how to USE it but it's neat!)...

acorn squash...

pumpkins...

and potatoes!

All together we left with somewhere around 25 grocery bags of produce and several large pumpkins.

A few of our wagons full of produce!

The kids had a blast and we will definitely return next year!  Now, off to freeze some carrots and figure out long term storage for onions and potatoes!!!