Breighton and I had a really good fall season as we prepared for Halloween this year. We made a trip out to Cleburne, Texas to Mainstay Farms to visit the Pumpkin Patch there. There is one closer to where I live, but I thought it would be fun to make a little road trip. It took a little more than an hour to get there but once we found it, we had a great time looking around, climbing on the hay bales and sliding down the giant pipe slide. We took a hayride that was filled with humor and good messages for the kids and then we picked a pumpkin to take home with us.
Now, carving the pumpkin was a new experience for me. I have NEVER done this before in my life... Breighton and I went to the grocery store on our way home and found a carving kit that seemed like it would work. The kit included several carving designs to choose from as well. Breighton was very understanding when it came to picking out the design that we were going to use. He was fully capable of understanding the fact that his mother had no carving experience and so he chose a "scary" face that was not so difficult. We sat out on the patio and went to work. He was the official "seed scooper" and I was the official scraper and carver. We worked together as quite a team, got nice and sticky and finally sat back to enjoy the fruits of our labor.
I have included an album of pictures from our day at the pumpkin patch and the final results of our pumpkin as well as a video that I made of the pumpkin. When you watch the video, make sure you listen to Breighton in the background. He is rambling on about the size of the video my cameral would allow, the difficulty we had getting the LED light to work, and also providing some spooky halloween noises.
Enjoy!
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| 2008 - Pumpkin Patch |
