pumpkin & apple picking

Yesterday the family all jumped in the car and headed up to Oak Glen to pick apples and pumpkins. Going to Oak Glen is one of our favorite fall activites. We get apples, fresh cider, & pumpkins. Oak Glen is a little further in the mountains so it has the crisp fall feel in the air. This year I wanted to go pick our own apples and pumpkins, normally we just get the pre-picked bags. So I found a place online called Riley's Farms. We got there and got our bag and picked ourselves a bag of Jonathan Apples.

Then it was time for picking our pumpkin... this is where I was pretty disappointed. We walked around the berry vines and there was the "pumpkin patch" , a small corn field with pre cut pumpkins laying in rows.


(scarlette wasn't a fan of the pumpkins)



I was expecting a huge field with pumpkins still on the vine, waiting for us to choose them and cut them off and take them home. These pumpkins were beautiful though, so we picked one out and went on our way. Then we met up with Erin and Cliff and went to Parrish Ranch and got some different kinds of apples, cider, caramel apples and a few small pumpkins.
(once again, not liking the pumpkins)


I knew of another pumpkin patch close by that you could pick your own, so we made one more stop and went and got our pumpkins from the vine just like I imagined.


(Scarlette loved riding in the cart)




We got lots of pumpkins here. And alot of really cool looking ones. We got wierd shaped pumpkins, green & orange pumpkins and green & white striped pumpkins. It was such a fun day! I can't wait to carve them tonight. :)