Showing posts with label pumpkins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pumpkins. Show all posts

Saturday, October 27, 2018

Fall Festivals and Pumpkin Time

We have several fall events on the calendar this month- mostly this week. We went to "Candypalooza" at Allie's MDO on Wednesday. It's basically a trunk-or-treat but they did also have popcorn and food. The kids had a good time.


Tonight we went to the huge fall festival we went to last year with all.the.things. It was cool, but not freezing cold like last year. We jumped in the face painting and balloon animal lines first knowing how long they get. Then we had some hot dogs- still missed out on the chili eventhough it was early then did a few other activities- pony rides and bounce houses, had s'mores until it was time for trunk or treat.










Tonight when we got home, we finally carved our pumpkin. Normally the kids each paint a pumpkin for Halloween, but this year Daniel found a huge one and wanted to carve it. We didn't want to do so too early and risk it rotting out, but we may have waited a little long. Either way, kids loved it.





 Jake's faces throughout the whole digging-out-pumpkin-guts part are classic. This was probably their first time doing this- like I said, we normally paint pumpkins. 




He's ready to go to the front porch!

Saturday, October 22, 2016

Pumpkin Time!

We had a MOPS 'play date' at Pumpkin Hill the yesterday morning then we had our annual pumpkin painting last night! It's always a little stressful going somewhere with the 4 of them by myself, but we managed and they had a great time. They enjoyed getting to pick their own pumpkins.








The kids have been painting pumpkins for several years- at least since Maggie was really little- we started the tradition in Birmingham and kept going b/c they enjoy it so much. I was never very good at carving pumpkins anyway, so this is a fun alternative. We let the littles go first because I only had two paint brushes which turned out to be nice anyway 'cause I could really watch everyone paint and get some pictures.  




 Allie kept saying "paint that side, get that side" it was so cute



 Displaying their creations on the front porch this morning... Jakey being so sweet with Mags. Love you guys! Yay for another year of pumpkin patch and painting!