Conner's Amaizing Acres

Yesterday we went to Conner's A-maize-ing Acres.  It's a farm with a corn maze, about an hour from here.  They open to the public, on Saturday's in October and November, and I've always wanted to go.  But it's a little expensive.  But thank goodness for Groupon, and awesome coupon codes, the four of us got in for $11! LOVE it!!!!

Our day was perfection at its finest.  The weather? PERFECT (75, breezy and clear!) The kids? Surprisingly well behaved and pleasant.  The farm? Absolutely the most fun and such a fantastic place!

 First we did the corn maze - something that none of us had done before.  It was fun, but once was enough for me!  It was more difficult than we expected, and the kids were sort of over-it pretty quickly!!! :)  BUT, there was MUCH more to do after that!

 The kids climbed on some GIANT hay bales - here is Bryce standing way up on top!

 Then we saw a donkey, but that was only the BEGINNING of the animals we saw. I think we counted 14 different kinds of animals: goats, cows, horses, bunnies, peacocks, chickens (tons of chickens!) donkeys, shetland pony. . . .lots of animals! (My favorite was the baby donkey! SO CUTE!)

 Here the boys are visiting with the goat and baby donkey.  Tanner kept trying to give them pumpkins.  He LOVED the animals.  He would get down really low next to them and make little squeaky noises - he was precious!!!!!

 The boys each picked out a tiny pumpkin.  Bryce was very thoughtful about which he picked out, and spent a lot of time considering his choices.  Tanner. . .well, Tanner ran around like a crazy person and tried to make giant pumpkin messes.  But he did end up with a baby pumpkin.  (And yes, I am pleased to report, that Bryce does indeed still say "punk-man" instead of "pumpkin"  .. . and I LOVE it.)

 After the pumpkin patch, Bryce played a fun game called a Duck Race. . .there were rain gutters slanting slightly down, and he had to pump the water from the old water pump to push the rubber duck down the gutter.  Lots of fun!

 feeding more horses. . .

 Bryce also got to drive this fun pedal car. . . he needed a little help though! (He got the tough one!!!!)

 The food was DELICIOUS. . . .Bryce said the barbeque was better than Bono's!  We had cheeseburgers and pulled BBQ, mac n cheese, green beans, and fries. . .Tanner ate every last french fry he could find!

 Bryce rode on the "cow train" after we ate. . .Tanner and I were going to ride, but he got cold feet at the last second!!!!! He was quite happy to just watch Bryce go! (as you can see, from the picture below!)

 Okay, so they had this giant plastic tub. . .and it was FILLED with corn kernals.  I took Tanner to play in it, while Eric and Bryce went on the hayride (because, again, Tanner got cold feet!) 

  Look at Tanner's feet. OH MY GOSH - the boys were FILTHY.  The boys both were totally and completely dirty, from their noses to their TOES (as you can see!!!) Tanner was wearing Crocs, which was why his feet were ESPECIALLY dirty!! We did a serious baby-wipe wipe-down when we got to the car! (And yes, I carried around hand sanitizer the entire time we were there!!!!!) :)

 Bryce came and joined us at the corn tub after the hay ride.

The farm was a great place for the boys to just RUN and get DIRTY and be BOYS!!!!!  There were a lot of people there, but it didn't FEEL crowded, because it is such a big place. 

 We finished off the day with HOME MADE ICE CREAM and a funnel cake! The ice cream was vanilla, and orange. (YUM!)

 Apparently, the ice cream was hilarious!

 The day was PERFECT.  Everything about it was awesome!

xoxo