One last time (we hope)

What will probably be our last trip out to the Pumpkin Patch occurred on Sunday. Jen and the girls went out after church to meet up with her side of the extended family while I stayed behind to attend a meeting at church. This is an annual get together with the cousins creating havoc all around the place. Below, you see the gang heading into the BIG hay maze. Kids can get lost in this thing for hours... but they seemed to navigate it well. Fortunately, Emma and Brandon are old enough now to join the older cousins in the fun.



As expected, there were dozens of pictures taken by all to try and get at least one with all 4 of them looking in the same direction. I've included the 2 best ones that I could find. Who can blame the kids, who have all the fun things that you can do out there such as hay rides, bounce houses, mazes and of course lots of yummy food like cotton candy, popcorn and snow cones. Add in the hundreds of people walking around and bright sun on a beautiful morning, and the last thing they want to do is all sit and look the same direction for a few seconds.



After the fun, I met up with the gang at a wonderful local restaurant called Life's a Beach. It has a huge wood patio deck out back that extends from the main building out to a huge sandpit. While the adults are sitting at their table enjoying the beautiful 80+ degree sunshine of the noon hour (it ended up being 91 before the current winter blast of wind chills in the 30s on Monday night showed up), all the kids were running around building sand castles and lost in their own vacation paradise. The concept really is a well planned out one... and it has good food to boot. Add in the constant soundtrack of Jimmy Buffet playing, the view of the tops of trees, a couple of fountains in the middle of man made water areas, and a couple of softball fields off in the distance, and you would have no idea you are in the middle of the metroplex.

And if that isn't enough for ya... the Bar (inside and out) is decked out with the NFL Sunday Ticket in HD. I counted at least 7 different HD games going on the different TVs, none of which looked smaller than a 42" Flat Screen. A vacation spot all in itself.