Cousin Time at Chester’s Pumpkin Patch

Cameron, Sky, Kaytee, Indiana, Jelly, Me, Kathryn

In an exciting and rare occurrence last weekend, my sister and I met up with some of our cousins for lunch and a visit to Chester’s Pumpkin Patch in Piedmont, OK. It’s always been tough to get the cousins together without a long drive or a flight involved, so when we do it’s really special!

This was mine and Kathryn’s first time to meet our 2nd cousin, Indiana!

I see you!

We had lunch at Chelino’s and got to catch up on everyone’s lives. It can be hard to do this at the holidays when there are so many people to catch up with, so I really appreciated this condensed grouping! Cameron is in college studying architecture and they’ve just shared the big news that he and his wife, Jelly, are expecting! It’s kind of crazy how we’re all adults now. How did that happen? :)

Now, I love, love, fall outings, but for some reason Oklahoma has decided to carry on with summer weather into October. So while things looked like fall, they sure felt like the middle of summer!

The nice thing about Chester’s is that the admission fee includes all the activities inside (pony rides, petting zoos, hay ride, maze, etc.). Basically this meant we watched Indiana as she reacted to all these farm things!

First pony ride!

Baby goats!! Trae would have shoved these kids out of the way to pet them if he had been able to join us!

There were also bulls and bigger animals outside to pet, but I didn’t seem to get any pictures of them. There was a ~~pony~~ miniature horse that we decided was a spitting image of Li’l Sebastian from Parks and Rec!

Because it was so hot it wasn’t long before we took an inside break to cool down and, well, take more cute pictures of Indiana :)

We discovered that the big slide and maze features required a hay ride over to them, so we got in line to wait our turn. We missed the cut off three times so we decided to skip the hay ride since it was a) really hot and b) I had to leave by 4pm to get to a meeting.

The admission fee also included a free small pumpkin so as we headed over to pick out our fruit, we noticed a spot set up for picturesque pumpkin patch photos, so we had to plop Indiana in there and snap away!

And then we lucked out when asking a couple of girls to take our group picture because one of them was a photographer. Yay for someone I can just hand my camera to!