Happy Thanksgiving....Bring on Christmas!

From our home to yours, we hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday and were able to travel safely to spend time with your families and friends!  At Potters Way, we're already thinking Christmas while we're eating our turkey dinner because our Christmas Open House starts the next day!

And guess what?!?  That's TODAY!  We open today for our Christmas season at 10:00!  We are only open for 2 weekends during Christmas because our shop is really all about helping you prepare for decorating for the holidays.  

Our barn is all set up with our fresh Christmas trees, garland and wreaths.  The shop is all decked out with our take on natural Christmas decor.  We invite you to come out and see us!  

For our Open House weekend, we are giving away one of our fresh wreaths and a snowman decoration for door prizes so that's an incentive to come and see us, too!  

Here are our hours for our season:

November 26 - 28th and December 3 - 5

Friday:  10 - 6 pm

Saturday:  10 - 6 pm

Sunday:  1 - 6 pm

We wish you and yours a blessed Christmas season.  We encourage you to slow down, take time to cherish your loved ones and always remember,

Jesus is the Reason for the Season!  God bless! 

From one blog to another...

Renae Sell-Lindgren shared a blog post she wrote about her family's experience at Potters Way!  It was so awesome to see that made it on someone else's blog and with her permission, we're sharing the link with you!  We hope you'll come and check us out next year so your family can carve the awesome memories that only a pumpkin patch can!

http://livelovelaughwithlindgrens.blogspot.com/2010/10/maze-ing-time.html

Stealing from Renae as she so eloquently stated in her blog, "Our love bucket runneth over, too."  :-)

LaMoure Boy Scouts

We had the pleasure of enjoying a really fun group of boy scouts and some of their moms from LaMoure.  Boy were these moms prepared!  They took all sorts of pictures and thank you to Leah for passing some along!


Beautiful shot of the fall produce...




Could this picture BE any cooler?

 




A cool close-up of one of friendly animals



He'd cost a pretty penny at $0.29 per pound!

A perfect pumpkin for Charlie!

Nicholas found one!

Steven and Taylor finding their way

Nice group shot

 

Hmmm...looks like they could use some help!

 

  



We really enjoyed our time with you all and we hope you'll come and visit us again soon!

What a busy season!

Whew!  So, here we are...it's the end of October and we're just getting around to updating our blog with a wrap-up of our fall season.

God blessed the nearly perfect fall weather and boy, did that make a difference for the turn-out of people we saw at Potters Way this year!  At the end of our 4 weekends, along with lots of groups during the weeks in between, we had less than 30 pumpkins left on the whole farm!  Isn't that incredible??

We did get some fun photos from some of our visitors, so we'll create separate posts for them to share their photos or stories.  We really do encourage folks to email us with photos to post.  We love to share your memories and no one captures them better than you!  If you see this post and have some pictures you'd like to share, it's not too late to send them on!  We'd love to share them! 

We can't thank you all enough for the fantastic fall and as always, we'd be nowhere without the help and support of our family and friends who come to help us.  It's an incredible amount of work but being able to share it with all of you makes it so much more worthwhile.   

We'll be opening for our Christmas Open House on Friday, November 26th at 10:00 am. 

We'll post more details as the event gets closer.

We hope to see you son!

More Fall Fall!

This past weekend was an absolute blast and we wanted to share a few pics and our corn maze guess winner!

Congratulations to NEIL WALTON of Englevale with his very close guess of 480! 

 The total weight of the pumpkins this past weekend was 475! 

Come on out and guess this weekend!  Again, it's different, so don't guess 475.  :-)

The Gebhardt's and their family came out to visit and took a few great pics of their boys having fun!

Thanks for sharing!

The Erlandson women posed for a fantastic photo!



Nick and Jacey Friedt, with their daughters, Isabelle and Aliyah.



Tom really does help pick the best ones!



 Our own little pumpkin, Andrew, always has fun at the farm!





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Isabelle and Aliyah are loving up their pumpkins!





The weather has been PERFECT for picking pumpkins and going through the corn maze.  If you haven't already, it's time to come out and visit!  There are only 2 weekends left!  Hope to see you soon!

Fall Fun!

Thank you to all our visitors this past weekend!  We had BEAUTIFUL fall weather and the chill in the air puts everyone in the mood for pumpkins!

This year, our corn maze contains a guessing game in the courtyard.  You register your guess for how many pounds of pumpkins are in the center and each weekend the closest guesser will win $25 in Oakes bucks.  So without futher ado, from our opening weekend, the winner is....

Max Muggli!  The total weight of the pumpkins was

415 pounds and Max guessed 423! 

Congratulations, Max!

So, come on out and register your guess!  (We'll be changing the amount each weekend, so don't plan on guessing 423!  :-)

With all the rain we're getting today, we highly suggest you bring your rain boots or some shoes that won't be ruined if you pick up some mud!  The corn maze is likely to be a little slick! 

We hope to see you soon!

Tell me again...Why Do We Do This??

As our gravel roads are drying out from the rain we received yesterday, it seems only fitting to write a blog devoted to the topic of "Why do we this anyway?"

For each part of the planning for this season, something has seemed to go wrong. Now, we're not complaining....we're just continuously reminded that God is certainly in control. So, without further ado, here's our top ten list of reasons why we operate a pumpkin patch!

10. We LOVE the fall and we LOVE kids. We couldn't come up with a better way to join the two.
9. Our community needs one...who else is going to do it?
8. Being a life-long farming family brings us closer to God and we want to share that with others.
7. We get to build our own memories with our family and friends because it takes many hands to make this thing work!
6. Tom Rodine knows how to grow corn. Why not make a maze of it?
5. Jean Rodine knows how to decorate and arrange flowers. Why not use that talent to fill a shop?
4. We love living in Oakes and we want to be part of making a great place to live and raise children.
3. Grandparents are always looking for ways to spoil their grandkids. Take a trip to the farm...it will continue to make you cooler than mom and dad.
2. We're farm folk - we like hard work. :-)

And the number 1 reason we operate a pumpkin patch is...

The weather, the growing conditions, and the circumstances around planning for this thing may change from minute to minute, but one thing stays the same....

EVERYONE HAS FUN AT THE PUMPKIN PATCH!

Come on out this weekend and see us...we'll do everything we can to make it a great visit!

It's almost pumpkin time!

With it being 90 degrees outside, it's hard to imagine that it's almost pumpkin time again! We open our fall season this year on September 17th and as always, we start to kick our planning into high gear as we approach that time.

We are very excited about our Game Show themed corn maze this year, and for those of you who enjoy a challenge, it's a tough one!

We will soon be posting what you can expect for our opening weekend activities, (and you better believe there will be some FUN things to do) so keep checking the blog as we will be posting much more frequently!

Pray for great fall weather and we'll see you soon!

Thank You and Happy New Year!

We just wanted to take a moment to wrap up 2009 as 2010 is already here!

We finished our Christmas season after 2 weekends and

we're excited to announce the winners of our Open House giveaways!

Judy Gemar - wreath

Stacie Dawson - custom centerpiece

Congratulations, Ladies!

We are so grateful for all our loyal customers who came to visit us in both the fall and Christmas seasons this year. We are looking forward to 2010 and we hope you'll visit us again! May God bless you all in this new year!