I loved the pictures! What a fun day! The weather looked cold…but I like it that way. More reason to have a fire and cozy up. Thanks for sharing!
PUMPKIN PATCH
- By : Cynthia
- Category : Friends, Holiday, Kids - Josh, Kids - Nathan
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Today Emily reminded me that we haven’t taken Nathan to the Pumpkin Patch for quite a few years. In fact, we’re not sure if we’ve ever taken him. I guess I’ll have to go back through the pictures from the last few years to see. At any rate, some friends of ours were going. We decided we should tag along.
Now. Please don’t laugh, but there really wasn’t a “pumpkin patch.” It was more like a pumpkin wagon this year due to the early October snow and freeze causing many (most?) of the area pumpkin patches to lose their pumpkins. The owner of this wagonload of pumpkins told us they are about the only ones around who even have any pumpkins left.
So much for taking Nathan to the “pumpkin patch.” No straw bale mazes or hunting through rows and rows of on-the-vine pumpkins to choose just the right one. Nope. Not this year. Today we looked through the wagon to choose our pumpkins. Considering this was the last day, at least they had quite a few to chose from.
Nathan had to pick up a dozen or more pumpkins looking each of them over very carefully to see how much they weighed,
what shape they were, what type of stem they had, etc., ….
before choosing THE ONE he wanted! All smiles now as you can see in the picture below!
Here are some pictures of the kids’ friends choosing their pumpkins…. “S” climbed up on top to take a look. He’s going to stay the night tonight and carve his at our house.
“M” looking through all the pumpkins… Em will go to their house tonight to carve her pumpkin.
“M” making sure the bottom is level…
I think it passed in spection.
Even though we didn’t have an entire field to look through, I think everyone found a pumpkin that will work for them.
Here’s Em with her pumpkin! I can’t wait until she gets home so I can see how she carved it.
I’m not sure why Josh didn’t want to get a pumpkin, but he didn’t. So, there’s no picture of him sorting through all of the pumpkins and that’s why he’s not in this picture. Aren’t they cute with their pumpkins?
I think we picked the WINDIEST day to go. It was blowing and howling! See Em’s hair all blowing back?
After Tim got home from work, he and the boys busied themselves with the carving. Nathan was SO EXCITED. It’s all he talked about until Tim came home. First. Tim cut off the top.
Nathan stuck his nose in there to smell the inside and wasn’t impressed.
Then he drew the face.
Do you see the resemblance?
Tim did most of the carving with Nathan keeping a close eye on the progress…..
When the harder parts were finished, Tim let Nathan cut out the eyebrows.
When the carving was almost complete, Josh has the unpleasant task of cleaning out the inside.
Meanwhile, “S” was drawing, carving, and cleaning his pumpkin as well.
After the face side was finished then Josh drew and cut out a cross on each of the pumpkins.
He did a GREAT job. I think this is the first time he’s had the opportunity to carve by himself because the last time we bought pumpkins was probably quite a few years ago when he was much younger.
After both sides were finished, I found some tea lights for the boys to put inside.
Here is our pumpkin all lit up.
Here is the “S” pumpkin lit up.
They’re quite a pair!
And the other side with the crosses!
Since we used so many matches getting these things lit up, I decided to let the boys put them in the living room so they could look at them all evening while they were playing X-box, Wii, and whatever else they were playing.
They sure had a lot of fun working on this project this afternoon and evening. Maybe next year we can get to the pumpkin patch before winter hits!
Emily has GREAT timing. She arrived home just as I was finishing this blog entry so now I can include a picture of her with her carved pumpkin.
And here’s a picture of all three girls’ pumpkins.
