Category Archives: Museums/Events

Pleasant Valley Farms Winter Squash and Pumpkin Festival~Sand Springs, OK

10/21/2019 Danielle Huddleston Leave a comment

Pumpkin patches are such a fun cheap way to entertain kids!

I do not remember this being a thing when I was a kid.

Of course a trip to the pumpkin patch meant my mom’s garden…

This is our third year going to the Pleasant Valley Farms Winter Squash and Pumpkin Festival in Sand Springs and I still like it. It is a quiet out in the middle of the country kind of place and the drive alone is worth it. We don’t really do a bunch of things that cost money at these places.

But there is always something fun to do for free.

This place always has fun games for the kids to play. Rubber duck races. Corn bin. Bull riding/bouncing? Watching someone chuck a pumpkin. This one even has a small maze that is free.

They have animals also which is always fun for my poor non farm kids 😉

Are you a pumpkin patch fan?

This is a fun event, you should check it out next year or check out their pumpkin patch this year!

Hiking, History, Museums/Events, Parks

We went to a different country!

09/27/2019 Danielle Huddleston Leave a comment

We decided while we were up on the North shore we should go ahead and cross the border into Canada!

It would be a first for everyone in my family.

First stop was the Grand Portage National Monument! It is right near the border and we had gone several years ago.

It ended up being a great stop because we got the early history of the Northwest Trading Company here and then at our next stop we got the what happened when they moved to Canada. I have been reading several historical novels about fur trading around the time of the French and Indian War and early fur trading in America so I found all of these stops fascinating. The boys looked the part! Such a beautiful area! Next we crossed into Canada and went to Fort William!

It is a giant fort and the tour is pretty amazing.

It was a little long for some of my kids but Nick just took them to walk around some.

The man giving the tour acts the part the whole time and was very interesting! He even had the boys act the part! The twins favorite part was the barnyard.

They let you help with chores!

Chicken lovers.

While at Fort William one of the workers told us about a giant waterfall that we really should go see so we looked it up and went, not really knowing what to expect.The Kakabeka Falls was breathtaking!It was a total surprise and was the biggest waterfall I had ever seen!We did not really have any other plans other than make it back over the border and hopefully stop at High Falls on Pigeon River which is at Grand Portage State Park.

What I did not realize was how close to the border it was!

I was a bit flustered from the border patrol questions and totally missed the park so we had to turn around!It ended up being totally worth it though!

It was a beautiful stop and was another part of the history we were learning.

This is the reason for Grand Portage, this giant waterfall.

Best field trip ever.

Museums/Events, My Family

Have Jetlag? Go to a giant Steam Threshers Reunion!

09/18/2019 Danielle Huddleston Leave a comment

Nick got back friday night and we went to a giant flea market on saturday morning!

I did not get any good pics but I never even saw the whole thing.

I did get a super yummy cinnamon roll though! That night there was a possible Aurora Borealis so I went out and watched for it.

His parents and some of the kids came out for a bit also.

We never saw it but I loved taking pictures of them looking at the sky. The next day we went to the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion!

We had gone several years ago and I really wanted to make sure we went on this trip when I found out it was going on at the same time.

Nick’s dad went also with all his brothers kids and we accidently went to opposite sides of the event.

It is huge.

We could not find each other for a while and I was pretty sure my kids were going to mutiny.

Thankfully we finally figured it out! I can’t really blame them, everything is better with cousins. There are so many things to see and do there!

They even have an old time village with a blacksmith shop.

Nine kids!

And we didn’t lose a single one…

The twins have some pretty bad allergies so one of them figured out right away being anywhere near the threshing was a bad idea!

She walked over, looked at it, and started sneezing. We ended the event by swapping some kids and then when we got to our opposite sides remembering that our oldest had our keys…