Like all of you, we’ve been very busy around here! With school in full-swing and all of the nightly activities and sports, we had to make sure that we ‘carved-out’ some time to go to the pumpkin patch!\u00a0This year, we went to Grandma and Pop-Pop’s house (Mark’s parents) for a visit and took a trip to the pumpkin farm in their town.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We had so much fun and the highlight for the girls was the corn maze.\u00a0This wasn’t just any corn maze…it was a few miles worth of twists and turns and hundreds of paths!\u00a0The fun part \u2014 and unique idea \u2014 was that we were given a punch card and had to find all of the characters from the Wizard of Oz.\u00a0Once you found someone<\/em> or something<\/em>, there was a hole punch there for you to mark it on your card. The girls thought that this was the coolest thing EVER and had me running around like a nut!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n While I was running around, sweatin’ bullets, and lost with the girls in the\u00a0maze,\u00a0Grandma stayed behind and\u00a0played with Grady in a corn box \u2014 it was literally a big shed filled with hardened corn to play in, instead of sand \u2014 which I thought\u00a0was a really neat idea!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like all of you, we’ve been very busy around here! With school in full-swing and all of the nightly activities and sports, we had to make sure that we ‘carved-out’ some time to go to the pumpkin patch!\u00a0This year, we went to Grandma and Pop-Pop’s house (Mark’s parents) for a visit and took a trip […] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[84,83,82,81],"tags":[665,261,259,262,260,664,663,258,256,257],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n