My family has this little tradition that we started when my son was born. The first week in October we always head down to Irvine to Tanaka Farms. Tanaka Farms is not just a pumpkin patch, it’s an actual farm where the Pumpkins are grown. They also grow lots of other fruits and vegetables and they have some really tasty strawberries too. If you go, you simply must buy a tray of their chocolate dipped strawberries. YUMMY!
My two little ones were not in the most cooperative of moods today and they were not interested in helping me fill my desire to get some photos of them in the patch. I always get asked by my clients if I have a lot of amazing photos of my own kids, and I always tell them, well no, I actually have better photos of all my client’s children and it’s 100% true. My kids know all of my tricks and funny sounds and they are *so* over having a camera in their face. Oh well, I take what I can get!
Tanaka Farms is such a wonderful thing to take your children to, they have a petting zoo, little atv rides, arts & crafts, tractor rides, games, food and more.
Here are some shots from our morning on the farm.
This little pumpkin was sitting on one of the arts & crafts tables…
My daughter absolutely loves animals, here she is talking with her new friend named Sugar
I swear this goat was talking about me and mumbling something, look you can see him talking out of the side of his mouth…
I tell you, Flo was *the* most fashionable goat on the farm today. Look how cute she is rockin’ her sassy pink collar. You go girl!
Umm, someone is a messy eater…
They have this really cool corn maze in the middle of the farm, we went in and got lost as usual. I needed my GPS because everyone knows how bad with direction I am.
We promised to be nice…
Just before we left I managed to get them semi close to each other, boy don’t they look thrilled that we are leaving? They wanted to stay longer.
Pumpkin prices are pretty reasonable, tractor rides are $5 (kids under 2 are free), the petting zoo is $3 (don’t quote me on that, but I *think* that’s what it was), the food for the animals is 5 for $6 or $1.50 each. Of course I’m a sucker and I bought t-shirts too. It’s so much fun, though and all worth it, I think it’s very reasonably priced.
