On Friday night we joined the MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) annual hayride and pumpkin patch evening at Schumaker Farms. It seems that most people we know do one or the other (or both!!) at this time of the year ... very cultural!!
The tractor pulled three trailers full of MOPS families up to the pumpkin patch ... all sitting on hay bales. It was so much fun and all the kids, including Abigail really loved the whole experience!
Once we arrived at the pumpkin patch we all jumped off and went hunting for the orange 'globes' to take home with us. It was the first time any of the Beckwith family had been in a pumpkin patch before! We picked up two, one for each of the girls and even though the ones we'd chosen weren't huge, Abigail had trouble carrying them!
... when we got home, Mark realised that he was no longer wearing his wedding ring ... and the last time he remembered wearing it was at the beginning of the evening :o( He returned to the farm the following morning but had no luck. As you can imagine we were gutted.
Jenny flicked through the photos we had taken while we were there in the slim possibility that we would find some clues ... amazingly we did!! Check out the photos below ... at the beginning of the hay ride Mark was wearing his ring and after picking pumpkins he wasn't ... basically he lost it during the most difficult part of the evening to track!
Using the wonders of Facebook we were able to borrow a metal detector from some friends at church. On Sunday lunchtime almost 48 hours after Mark lost his ring, we headed back to the pumpkin patch ... with little hope of actually finding it but the determination to at least try!
We remembered that when we had stopped on the hayride we had noticed a squashed pumpkin with the name Emily on it ... we thought it was a bit sad at the time that her pumpkin was splatted ... but on Sunday used it to locate the spot where our search would begin.
With lots of prayers from us and loads of friends and family, here and back home, we started to look. Amazingly less than 2 feet from the Emily pumpkin, without even needing to use the metal detector we found Mark's ring ... in the end it really was that 'easy'!!
Lots of smiles and celebrations occurred in that pumpkin patch on Sunday lunchtime! ;o)
As you can see, while it was a family occasion, some of us were more captivated by the whole experience than others!
We want to say a BIG thank you to 'Emily', whoever you are. While you may never get to enjoy your pumpkin, you certainly helped make our first pumpkin patch adventure one we will always remember ... for the right reasons!
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