Weber's Farm

On Sunday, we decided to visit Weber's Farm. I think they are most famous for their apples and apple cider, but we always visit there to pick out our pumpkins for Halloween. This year we already had our pumpkins, but decided to visit the farm anyway. They have a barnyard area with lots of activities for the kids. Peyton enjoyed it last year, and we thought he'd have even more fun this year. We definitely picked the right time to go (during the Ravens game) because it was empty! Peyton got to do whatever he wanted as many times as he wanted without having to wait in any lines.

The first thing that we did was go through the "Boo Barn." It wasn't scary at all. There were just Halloween decorations set up throughout the barn. One scene had skeletons dressed up like pirates. Peyton said, "Arrr" which he learned from Uncle Jeremy.

This was a mini-hay maze. Peyton liked walking through all of the big tires. We'd tell him a color and he would go run through that particular tire. He came back to this a few times during the day.

Kyle and Peyton went in the large hay maze. Kyle just followed Peyton around, who did a really good job at finding his way out of the maze! I took this picture standing on a bridge that they constructed over the middle of the maze. You have to look very closely to see Peyton, but he's in there.

There is a giant hill in the barnyard area that they set these slides up on. There were four slides in total. I rode down with Peyton first. He loved it! He is definitely a fan of slides to begin with, but since this one was so big, he enjoyed it even more.

Kyle took Peyton down next. They went down a different slide than Peyton and I did. Their slide was much faster! They slid right off the end of the slide and Kyle's butt got so dirty. Peyton sure loved it.

Here are my two favorite boys posing in front of this large blowup pumpkin. It was just there for scenery.

This next photo is of Peyton and I doing a duck race. Each lane had its own old-time type water pump. Each person had a little rubber ducky that moved down the lane by the water that you pumped. We 'raced' several times. When we played against other people, it was just a free-for-all, but later on no one was playing with the pumps, so Kyle, Peyton, and I raced each other. Kyle won every time. I guess he's just an expert pumper.

Peyton went back and forth through this tunnel probably 20 times. It is the simplest things that fascinate kids the most.

After lots of prodding to get Peyton away from the tunnel, we all took a hay ride together. Peyton loved the tractor that pulled the wagons that we sat in. They take you on a tour of the farm through all of the apple trees. There were a few scenes set up featuring scarecrows with pumpkins for heads, but they were lame, so I'm not going to bother including the pictures. Here's Peyton and I on the hayride.

And here's Kyle and Peyton on the hayride.

When we got off of the hayride, Peyton was sure to say, "Bye tractor!" We took another trip around all of the activities so that Peyton could go through the hay maze again, do the duck races a few more times, and go down the slide again. We checked out some farm animals too, including lots of turkeys, some goats, and roosters.

The last activity that Peyton did was to ride these little tractors. He was too small to reach the peddles, so Kyle pushed him around a little.

It took a lot to pry Peyton off the tractors, but we finally succeeded. We stopped in the country store to buy some apple cider, and then we headed home for dinner.