John Deere + Pumpkins

My dad and I took the boys to the John Deere store, officially known as Prairie Land Partners, in McPherson on Saturday morning. Boy oh boy were they in John Deere heaven (if you watch JD DVDs you'll even know the song....sigh...). I shopped for a 1/64 size loader tractor to replace the one the boys broke a few weekends ago. It's hard to pretend farm without all the proper equipment. The boys climbed on the toy tractors, drove them around the store, parked them, drove them, hooked up trailers to them, pretended to mow and trim, ate popcorn and climbed on the real equipment outside.

Levi's expression just cracks me up in this photo, we see this face all too often at our house.

These two goofballs wouldn't sit and smile at me for a photo, go figure.

Noah's not interested in this, he'd rather be on a tractor.

And he's out, done with this silly picture thing.

Check out the digger Grandpa bought the boys to play with. It digs/scoops/dumps and lives at Grandpa and Grandma's house, thanks Grandpa!

Then we went to Papa's Pumpkin Patch in the afternoon. We had a great time, but it was a little hectic and I don't have any pictures with pumpkins. I intended to get cute pictures of the boys picking out pumpkins but that just didn't happen. We headed out toward the pumpkin patch without a wagon or a cutter-thingy. Thankfully, some nice people let us have their cutter after they had loaded up their wagon with pumpkins. But, that left us with two kids, a camera, two pumpkins, a cutter-thingy, a pretty long walk with some good-sized mud puddles...needless to say pictures were simply not going to get taken. Next year we'll snag a wagon first thing, lesson learned.

The slide is so simple and so great, we had to drag the boys away from it.

You can check out Papa's Pumpkin Patch online or find them on Facebook.