the love of a father

daddy worked hard all weekend so he decided to spend some time with us on monday. i'm a sucker for the 'traditional' things and a pumpkin patch ranks right up there... so he indulged me and happily took the family over an hour to visit one. yes, an hour into indiana. but i think we'd all say it was worth it. tremendously overpriced, but worth it.

there was a huge barn slide. it looks like alaythia is just sitting there, but in fact, she was just getting to the end in this picture. fearless.

we rode a tractor out to feed some animals.

we ate homemade ice cream in a 50's soda shop.

we even got to pick pumpkins. and while the pictures are the majority of the reason i want to go to a pumpkin patch, we went with our camera just about out of battery. so we had to act fast, thus resulting in not a very good fall picture...but we'll keep trying.


the best part of the day for me actually had nothing to do with pumpkins. in an effort to pump as much money out of you as possible the farm had bounce houses and blow up slides. you'd think we would have had enough of these, but the frequency of them only increases our desire. they were charging a buck for each turn. adults included. ridiculous. anyway, we walked over to the bounce house and there was no attendant, so isaiah jumped in. and we worked our way on down. no one there, so we just went for it, counting the dollars we were saving as we went.

the last bouncy thing was a train obstacle course. we were a bit on edge anyway because, let's face it, matt and i are not the rebellious type. so isaiah charges up the wall and goes down the other side. all of the sudden we hear 'daddy! daddy!' in a blood curdling tone. i've never seen matt move so fast. if i wasn't half panicked i would have laughed till i cried. i do now actually recounting it. matt tore off his shoes, dove in through the netting, and as he's cascading the wall he's yelling, 'i'm coming! i'm coming isaiah!' turns out there was a reason there wasn't an attendant to take our money and an even better reason why we weren't supposed to be on those things. pools of water at the bottom, so as he came to the end isaiah fell in and got sopping wet. he freaked.

he and matt come around the corner, matt rolling his eyes and chuckling as i'm rolling by now, because i see that nothing's wrong. ahh, the love of a father for a son. matt's is like none i've ever seen before.