This year, Gil and I decided to plant a couple of pumpkin plants for the kids to have this fall. What we didn't know is that we would have volunteer pumpkins all over our back deck. That mass of pumpkin vine behind Jake grew up to our sliding glass door.
This beauty that Ellie is checking out was green when it's momma plant died. (In August) Gil put it up by our front door and it ripened to this gorgeous orange. Carter chose it for his jack-0-lantern.
In September we started harvesting. By the wheel barrow full! Stella was helping with these that we picked after the first frost blackened the vines.
We used pumpkins as a back-drop to take birthday photo's. Ellie is checking Bree's pony tails as they played in the pumpkins. In all, we had over a hundred (from big to small) We gave them away, we took them to the office, we insisted all the grandchildren have at least 3 apiece. I started cooking the little ones- we've had pumpkin muffins, pumpkin bread, pumpkin stew, pumpkin dessert, pumpkin dip, pumpkin in the freezer...
On the day before Halloween- we carved pumpkins- big and little - happy and sad, scary too. Visiting friends got to carve pumpkins too. (and take them home)
Emma and Aspen helped show off the pumpkins - they lined both sides of the sidewalk.
McKayla chose to be a chef for Halloween. We told her she could cook pumpkin pie!
and now Halloween is over, Bree wouldn't get any closer to the pumpkins than this. Would anyone like a pumpkin?
2 comments:
That is so funny! I was laughing all the way through the post. That is a *ton* of pumpkins! (probably literally)
Wow, what a great harvest! And they are all so bright too. Cute grandkids. :-)
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