Tuesday, September 28, 2010

I love Fall

And I love going to the farms in the fall. So last Saturday we headed out to our first one of the season to try a new one in Hendersonville. I found out about Shuckles from Jessica's kindergarten teacher when I overheard her planning the kindergarten field trip there.

Well first off I was very impressed. It was not like any of the other "true farms" in that it was set up in a field with a roped off area with the corn maze on the side. But I was impressed because they were very organized. They had plenty of people manning each station and an obvious schedule so everyone knew where to be. Everyone was extremely friendly. All the staff waved every time the hayride went by and everyone waved at the guys in the stand who were watching the hay maze in case anyone got lost. They had thought of many of the little extras so that the kids could not get hurt on anything.

They had a bunch of games set up for the kids to play. This one was a nerf where you shoot it in the buckets.


Something they could run through.


Another nerf bow and arrow. They kids loved this one.




A huge sandbox which the kids loved.





Another game. You had to fling this rope with balls on each end and try to wrap it around the poles. They played this one a bunch.

Ladybug actually threw in in the top hole! All the guys watching were very impressed.


My cuties.

The face painting was $1 each extra.

A slingshot which they also loved!




More sandbox time!

The hayride.

Here is the little kids hay maze. They had run running through this. It was set up with a couple of tents and things to crawl under.

Now off to the big maze.


Hmmm. Which way do I go? There is actually a way to know where you are going. Thanks to a nice couple who passed on the advice to me, we were not stuck in this huge maze for a hour!

Boy this maze stuff wears you out!

I just thought this was cool. I think that I actually changed the zoom while I was taking the pictures is why this happened.

We purposely got there around 4pm so that we could do the maze at "dusk". I was not interested in doing it in the pitch black by myself. So we did they maze once in the light and as it started getting dark, we got our flashlights out and went through it again. I did not time us but it probably took 30-45 minutes to go through and the kids had so much fun. It was pretty dark by the time we got out but there were other people in there so it was not bad. lol.

We did eat while we were there. They had a concession stand set up with kids meals for $3 and I got a hot dog, coke, chips and bag of cookies all for $5. So not bad at all.

All in all we spent 31/2 hours there. Probably could have done it in less time because we did the maze twice. Plus it was not busy that night and we didn't have to wait in line for anything. So I imagine as it gets closer to October, it will be busier. If you go, be sure to check the website because there was a $1 off couple on there.

Tis the season

For Homecoming. And Homecoming brings a parade! And a parade brings more candy that we don't need. But if you look at their faces, they had so much fun.

The kids found some dirt to play in while they waited for the parade to start.

Our big group lined up and ready to go.

Co cute, the kids waiting while the parade is beginning just up the street.

And still waiting.



Love his face. Not sure what he was looking at here.

More candy!


Group of friends that enjoyed the parade with us.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Let's go to the apple farm

On Wednesday we met up with our MOPS group at Shade Tree Apple Farm.

Batman found a caterpillar right off.

First on the agenda was to show us how to make apple cider. They did it the old timey way with a crank for us but said that they have a machine they use otherwise.

But all they did is put the apples in and crush them up and press the juice out. We each got to try the fresh apple cider. Very delicious. We brought a jug home as well.

Batman liked it.

Then off to the hayride. Only problem with hayride was they tried to fit all these people onto one small trailer. So it was not exactly the greatest stuffed on there. But the kids enjoyed it.


Then they had a craft for the kids.

It started with an apple.


And it ended up creating a pig.

That many preschoolers do not all like to have their picture taken at the same time!