Bountiful Harvest!!!!

Today we made it out to the Miller farm. What a blast we all had!!! It was really hot and super dusty with no clouds in the sky, (of course by 5pm it was cool). The children got to sit in tractors, pet the animals, jump in the bounce house, play on the playground, and not to mention.. harvest their own vegetables on a hay ride!!! We came home with quite the loot: tomatoes, jalapenos, pie pumpkins, potatoes, corn, corn and MORE corn, basil, dill, beets, eggplants, squash.... I think there are 8 potatoe sacks full on my countertop right now. For 2009, everyone needs to plan a fall trip to Denver so we can do it together.. it was so fun!! I think Luke picked about 50 jalapenos just for Eric. :0) I also think had an allergic reaction to the eggplant plants. They scratched up my legs (they were kind of prickly) and my arms and legs began to itch uncontrollably and swell up like hives (of course they were covered in sweat, which made it worse)!! It cleared up eventually though after we got back and I washed off. On the way to the car, we stopped and bought a huge bag of homemade peanut brittle... chocolate and coconut!

The best part (besides the veggies) were the antique cars lining the front of the farm. They were all painted like the cars from the movie, "Cars", so the kids got to see Lightning McQueen and Towmater. Very very cute. We ended the day at Fuddrucker's and all had big juicy cheeseburgers!!! Now I'm officially ending my day, (8:30!!) with a shower and bed... we have hockey practice tomorrow, but the newscasters said that this is the weekend that all the aspens are at their gold peak, so I'm trying to figure out how to work in a trip to the mountains before Monday... hmmm... maybe we'll convince Daddy to take us for a brief fishing excursion. I miss everyone in Texas so much... hope your weekend is great!!