Friday, November 5, 2010

Picking Pumpkins at the Patch

We picked pumpkins a couple of weeks before Halloween to add some autumn color to our front stoop. We never did carve them which Derek and I are both okay with until Eva gets a bit older. She'd probably be grossed out anyway. But a nice whole orange pumpkin makes her pretty happy. It's all she's been talking about for 3 weeks. The Buddy Son, however, was more interested in straw.

Not a quarter of a mile from our house, right in the middle of the subdivision, three families on an acre each decided they wanted to do something for the community in their substantial "backyard" so they decided to have a free pumpkin patch. Donations are encouraged and 100% of the proceeds are given to the Perpetual Education Fund. So that's where we went. It was really peaceful and nice knowing that money we would've spent anyway on a pumpkin was actually being given to a great cause.

Baron didn't know what to think.

I love this picture of Derek and Eva. She just loved that odd little shaped pumpkin.

The one I picked out was super duper heavy.

Cute little faces.

We just looked it all over and made sure we picked out the absolute best ones.

She was pretty proud of her pumpkin and talked about the event for weeks.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Love seeing the pics of your kids... soo cute!

Mark and Kris said...

Those are the cutest 4 punkin's I have every seen,.....oh, and those orange thingys are pretty cute too!