Annual Pumpkin Carving Party

We were sad this year that we live so far away from the Waddoups because for the last 4 years we had invited them over to carve pumpkins, eat dinner and watch a scary movie.  We had our party just with our family this year though, and we had a good time.  We ate pizza and watched It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown with Kennedy.  Our pumpkins turned out wonderfully too!  I'm really proud of mine.  Usually I just do your typial triangle eyes and smile, but I opted for something a little different this time and it turned out great!



Brett's is always extremely intricate and takes him hours and hours to clean and carve.  This year it was just as intricate, but I think he's speeded up a little bit, which is good, because we had time to watch a movie afterward too.  Here's his rendition of Frankenstein's monster.



Kennedy picked out the ugliest pumpkin in the whole bunch when we bought them.  It looked dirty because it's skin was more like a cantaloupe than a pumpkin.  She requested that a ghost be carved into hers, so Brett freestyled one.

The best part about her pumpkin though was that we let her color it with Sharpies.  She used purple and green, and somehow managed to color it for probably 30 minutes straight without getting a fume headache.  She is very proud of the end result and had a great time carving pumpkins.

Pumpkin Patch

I had some other cute pictures from before we got there, so hopefully they will upload later. But in any case, we went to the pumpkin patch in Santaquin last night to pick out our pumpkins to carve. We went last year too, and you can look at the post here. Kennedy had a blast. When we got there she just went crazy saying, "Pumpkin! Pumpkin! Pumpkin!" She couldn't decide which one she wanted. But this one finally won out.

We started taking some pictures, but she was so entranced by the pumpkins that she couldn't look at the camera.

Kennedy and daddy made some pretty cute ghosts.

And we became a family of pumpkins too. We had a great time on the hayride and running around the patch. But poor Kennedy did a face plant, and we didn't see the damage until we got back into the light.

Poor thing really got scraped up! This picture doesn't do it justice, she really got some good scrapes on her cute little face. We had a great time! We'll be carving them on Friday night, so look out for pictures then! And I will be updating the cooking blog today with Pumpkin Scones with Autumn Spice Glaze. So far, we're having a great fall!

3rd Annual Pumpkin Carving Party

For the third year in a row we got together with the Waddoups to carve pumpkins and watch a scary movie.  We watched Signs (which is one of my favorites).  Kim told me that she went on a date once where the boys put a projector up in front of a corn field and watched that movie!  Creepy!  We also had a Dijon Chicken Stew that I made as well as Kaye's famous apple cider that she so graciously gave me the recipe for.  It was awesome and we had a great time.  I didn't get to carve my pumpkin (I'm going to do a Lucy pumpkin tonight) but Brett carved a cute ghost family!  Kennedy is in the middle and I have hair.  You'll be able to see it a little bit better in the later pictures.

Nate carved a goal post with a football going through it (BYU could use a few more of those at the moment) and Kim carved a pumpkin for Boston.  The pumpkin is a football helmet and she carved the face into it.

Our night camera wouldn't steady, so they're kind of blurry, but here they are all lit up!

I thought this picture turned out kind of cool.  It looks like the ghosts are on fire or something.

We're looking forward to lighting our pumpkins on Halloween!

Pumpkin Patch

Yesterday was an eventful day for us.  We ran lots of errands, played a lot with Kennedy, and went on a hayride to a pumpkin patch!  We did this last year as a ward activity down at the Red Barn in Santaquin, and it was so much fun that they decided to do it again.  We got Kennedy decked out in her pumpkin outfit that Grandpa Pitt sent to her.  Her onesie says "little pumpkin" on it.

Here is Boston sporting a pink hat that he borrowed from the Guest girls.  His daddy wasn't so happy about this, but as Kim was putting it on, Boston was smiling away.

Kennedy loves her hat, and it started getting cold right about now, so we had to bundle her up before we got to the pumpkins.

Here we are in front of the wagon that took us over there.  Kennedy was having a great time watching the other kids on the ride that were sitting next to us.

When we got to the patch, Brett very quickly found some perfect carving pumpkins.  We got one for us to share and one small one for Kennedy.  Of course they made sure to have some fun stuff there other than just the pumpkins, so here we are as pumpkins and ghosts.

Poor Kennedy was exhausted after this, and she hardly slept at all last night because her first tooth poked out yesterday!  It is way sharper than I was expecting.  We can't see it yet, but it is most definitely there when we put our fingers in her mouth.  Does anyone have any helps for teething pain?  A repeat of last night would probably kill me or Brett.  Or both.