Ava's First Field Trip

Last Friday, Ava went on her first field trip ever with her kindergarten class to Schnepf Farms, a local farm that has a pumpkin patch & fall festival each year. Ava was so excited to go! It was hot (about 90 degrees - will AZ ever cool down?) and dusty, but a really fun day!
Dillon & I met the buses at the farm, along with my friend Rachel (Ella's Mom) and her son Jack. (thanks for the ride & all the pics Rachel!)

Here are a few of the highlights...

Riding the bus was a huge deal for Ava!

At the farm with her friends Ella, Gwendylin & Justin

Petting goats at the petting zoo with Justin

Petting the donkey with Dillon

(Ava loved this donkey because he was so cute

and looked like the donkey from Shrek)

Ava went down this big tunnel slide

(A very brave thing for her, big slides are not usually her thing!)

These are her good friends Ella & Gwendylin (We carpool with them to school everyday)
They rode on the swings...
the airplanes...(Ava is pouting, she didn't get to ride the airplane with flames on it!)

and the train!

Dillon was such a good sport!

He had to stay in his stroller most of the time,

he was too little for all the rides!

Bringing a bag lunch was a very exciting prospect for Ava! We went shopping and indulged in Sunny D, Twinkies & Cheetos! In typical Ava fashion, she ate one or two bites of her food, most of her Cheetos, & that was it!!

The kids were able to pick a pumpkin from

the pumpkin patch. Ava picked the very

smallest one she could find

(and wouldn't even switch it for another when

I told her the reason it was so 'squishy & small'

was because it was nearly rotten!)

Dillon got a pumpkin too!

This is a typical Dillon face!

(for those of you who know him really well,

can't you just hear him saying 'Oh, Oh!' as he points?)

Here are the friends taking a break at the end of a long day!

Gwendylin, Justin, Ella & Ava

And here I am with Ava & Dilly!

Until the next field trip....