Well today was our planned outing to the Bellevue Berry and Pumpkin Ranch. It used to have a shorter name, but perhaps they realized they needed the pumpkin income, so now it's longer and includes pumpkins.
I don't know for sure on that, but I do know you can have quite a bit of fun for about $8 per person on the weekends and that includes the hayride to the fields where you can pick out a pumpkin (you do pay for the pumpkins, of course).
I managed to grab a few pics along the way and got a few videos, which you'll be able to see on my YouTube channel, linked on the right. The video I'm including in this post is Zac getting to ride a Shetland pony, which is his first ride on a horse. He was excited to get to do this, and that's saying something, since right before he was letting pigs sniff his hand.
It's not often during football season that the Huskers have a Saturday off. It's even rarer that you can get me out of the house regardless, given my love of all things college football. However, we had a real desire to take Zac to get his own pumpkin this year and we thought it'd be fun to visit the Bellevue Berry Farm, which is fairly close.
The pics I'm sharing today are from yesterday's visit. One cool thing for kids about this place is that they have all these areas set up with different themes. They also have some animals you can get up close and personal with, and Zac was able to pet a miniature horse and the pigs were very interested in trying to get close to him. :) In addition, he enjoyed the chickens, cows, an emu, full-sized horses and even the family dog.
After walking around a bit and enjoying the cool Fall day and the animals, we hopped on for a hayrack ride around the property. We all enjoyed this, but Zac especially, and toward the end they stop to let everyone pick a pumpkin if they are interested. We let Zac pick out two, one small and one big, and we even bought some of the honey harvested right on the property. Should be good, but for now Zac is much more concerned with his small pumpkin.
For example, he wanted to play with it last night, and during the course of that he presented it to Katy and said "Happy Birthcake". Yes, that's how he normally says "birthday". Then other times he was acting as though he was making something out of it and, when I asked what, he told me he was making garlic. Yes, garlic. He can't even eat garlic because, well, he doesn't wear it very well.
Anyway, such are the fun times of having a toddler in the house. Wouldn't trade it for the world!
Well today was our planned outing to the Bellevue Berry and Pumpkin Ranch. It used to have a shorter name, but perhaps they realized they needed the pumpkin income, so now it's longer and includes pumpkins.
