Pumpkin Time

Brooklyn and her friend, Kaleb making Halloween Pizza!

Our little artist...she didn't want to carve it, she wanted to
paint it and she was very serious about it!

Brooklyn's GINORMOUS pumpkin...no going small with this one!

Gracie with the "family" pumpkin! She had no idea what we were up to!

Halloween this year was so chaotic! I was so over the month of October by the time Halloween hit that I'm afraid we literally carved pumpkins Halloween night before going to a friends house for dinner and trick-or-treating. But the kids had fun and are both so different when it came time to carving their pumpkins. Brooklyn picked the biggest one and wanted to all but shove dad out of the way and carve it all herself (the only thing she insisted she needed help on, was getting the guts out cuz you know she doesn't like to get her hands dirty!). Kendall, on the other hand, picked the tiniest pumpkin (I swear that it is in part due to the book we've been reading "The Littlest Pumpkin" in which no one picks the littlest pumpkin and it's greatest wish is to become a jack-o-lantern on Halloween...Kendall always feels so sad for the littlest pumpkin when the patch closes Halloween night and no one has picked the littlest pumpkin...even though she knows the happy ending...(oh, I know you're wondering...the little mice in the patch carve it up and it becomes the center piece jack-o-lantern at their Halloween party!) And she didn't want to carve it. She wanted to paint it which was just fine by me. True to Halloween in Utah, it was raining the whole day and got pretty cold. But by the time we finished our pizza's the rain had stopped and dad took the kiddos trick-or-treating. As if they didn't already have enough candy from the Ward Halloween Party and their school parties...but it's all part of the experience.