Pumpkin Carving

The Saturday before Halloween we took the boys to our local high school FFA's pumpkin patch to pick out some pumpkins to carve.  We were afraid that they might not have any pumpkins left, but when we got to the patch there were pumpkins as far as the eye could see!  The FFA kids had planted about 8 acres of pumpkins, but unfortunately most of them were a little rotten by this point.  We managed to find a few good ones, though, and the boys loved traipsing around through the dirt and weeds.

These aren't the pumpkins we went home with.  J and E picked up the first two pumpkins they saw and were satisfied!  We convinced them to keep looking, though.  :)

Emmett is very, very 2 right now.  He totally refuses to smile for pictures, especially when someone other than mom or dad is taking them.  We had family pictures taken the other day and Phil and I just laughed when we saw them... you can see E actually trying not to smile in most of them!

My attempt at a pic of me and Reid...  :)

I know this is far away, but I thought it was pretty with the hills in the background and all of the pumpkins.  And that's Phil pushing Reid in the wheelbarrow with our pumpkins.  :)

Our attempts at a pic of all three in the wheelbarrow...

Later that night we carved the pumpkins.  I had J choose the shapes for the face and help me draw them, but he wasn't a fan of pulling the innards out of the pumpkin.

He did help me cut a little bit, though.

And E had a blast coloring on our other pumpkin with a marker.  *Please look past our horribly ugly and messy back patio.  That's a project for next summer.*

Reid was enjoying dinner while we carved...

And then Daddy came out to help carve the other pumpkin...

When it got dark Phil lined up all of the carved pumpkins on the step and put candles in them.  It looked really neat from inside, but I forgot to take a picture.