Pumpkin Time!

Normally we buy our pumpkins early, close to apple picking time.. and they always end up rotting out on the bottom while waiting in the garage for carving time.  This year we waited until two weeks before Halloween, and because there has been so much rain, practically all the pumpkins in the field were rotting!  Grrr.. we can't win!  Caden of course wanted the biggest pumpkin he could find.  We told him that if he could carry it to the register he could have it...

There was lots of trial and error...

Cole and Daddy on the search of the perfect pumpkin

He could pick it up.. but he couldn't walk!

Exploring through the soggy pumpkin field

Caden points out a great choice..

Hmmm.. Cole and Cora find something else!

Cora tries to move the pumpkin

 Cole finds a worm!! and Cora finds a seat!

The look of devastation when Caden realizes he found the perfect pumpkin, but he can't lift it

Ingenious!  I was so impressed when Caden figured out he could just roll it to the stand...  to prevent damaging it we carried it to the stand to see how much it weighed.. Unfortunately it was  ridiculously heavy, so we resorted to one of his earlier picks that was still pretty big, but not quite as expensive :)

On our way back to the stand we passed this partially eaten apple.. nothing goes to waste! these bees were quite satisfied.

Here are the crazy kids with their pumpkins.. I will tell you it took about 15 minutes to get this  picture, you can only imagine what the ones prior to this one looked like!

 

I told them to make their best Jack-o-Lantern face, this is what I got.

Hmmmm.. I guess Cora's Pumpkin will be eating :)

The day before Halloween, during the power outage we carved pumpkins!  Rob got this crazy pumpkin gutting tool off of Amazon, he was so proud!  Boy did it make it easier!  And cleaner.. but I personally think it took a little bit of fun out of reaching your hand into the slime!  Although I guess you could still do it, but none of the kids chose to.

Cora though it was too loud

In action

The boys gave it a whirl for their pumpkins

Caden takes after his Dad.. power tools make everything better!

No messy hands in our house!

Maybe with a smile we would have advertisement material:)

BOOoooooo!