Sunday, October 30, 2016

Pumpkin Carving and Trick-or-treating

The kids were so excited this year to carve pumpkins right from the garden.  It was a last minute idea to plant pumpkins so it's pretty amazing we had any big enough to carve. That garden soil is good stuff and the rain helped a lot.  We also had 10 carving pumpkins to give away to cousins and a whole lot of tiny pumpkins for bread and muffins.



Brave enough this year to dig right in.  
The kids told Matt what faces they wanted and he carved them. 

A nearby town does a "Treat Street" every year where local businesses give out candy.  Here are the kids, ready to go:

This year we had a veterinarian, a firefighter and a princess.
 It's a pretty slow walk downtown as the lines get really backed up by all the kids and parents.  But the kids had fun and didn't mind going home a little early when the buckets started getting heavy.  Their local cousins and Grandma and Grandpa came over for an evening of pizza, play and candy-munching.  It's so nice to have a house big enough to entertain family comfortably.

Karl liked the pickup pumper truck in the background.

2 comments:

Anna Wilson said...

Ooh! We might have to borrow Karl's costume next year!

HollyMarie said...

How cool that you were able to carve pumpkins from your garden! Is a Christmas tree farm next on the list? Just imagine... how fun would that be to have some draft horses, a sleigh, and a holiday Christmas tree farm? The kids are so cute. :)