Sunday, October 30, 2011

Family Pumpkin Carving

This is my FAVORITE time of year!  The weather, the food, the treats, the holidays!  This year we decided to not go to a pumpkin patch, like we have the past several years, and instead carve pumpkins together as a big family!  This was seriously SO fun!  I’m thinking we’ve started a new tradition!  We did it at Jesse’s parents house outside.  It was a PERFECT day!  Everyone really got into carving, even busting out power tools (totally Ben’s idea!)!!  Here’s our day (be prepared for a TON of pictures!)…

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The dads waiting…
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The Blackburns scooping their pumpkins
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Cousins doing some scooping…Ali’s face is priceless!
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Seriously…awesome!
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It took about .5 seconds for the power tools to make an appearance!
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Stevie scooping out his pumpkin
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Dan too!  Love his face!
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Scooping didn’t phase Dan!
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Or Cade!  He LOVED the pumpkin goo!
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Libby handled her pumpkin too!
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Steve the pumpkin with his pumpkin!
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Daddy and his boys working hard!
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Drex lookin good!
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Dan takin a break..so cute!
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We love carving pumpkins!!
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Quin is done!  Awesome spider pumpkin!
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Everybody say “Pumpkin!!”
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I got 4 pumpkins for our family (1 for each of us) and Jesse carved his and mine, and I took over the kids pumpkins!
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Jer didn’t need much help though!
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The Blackburns with their finished pumpkins!  Charlie carved Beau’s pumpkin in 5 minutes or less, thanks to the power tools!
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The girls carved matching pumpkins!  They didn’t even know they were doing the same one until after they had started carving!
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The pumpkin I carved for Dan! Kind of looks like him!
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Only Dan is way cuter!
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And the one for Steve…he helped a little!
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Brothers!
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Jer, Briggs, Ali and Cade with their finished pumpkins!
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And all the cousins and all the pumpkins!  SO FUN!
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We made our own pumpkin patch!
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Our fam with our 4 pumpkins…good job Jess!
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Ben and Cammie fam!  Somehow we missed getting a pic with Liz and Charlie and their fam…oops!
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And here’s our pumpkins that night.  They pretty much lasted one night!  But they sure looked good for that one night!

What a fun family tradition!

1 comments:

Rachel said...

Whoa! Look at all those boys!! :) I love it! Looks like so much fun. Wish we were there to share it with you. Love you guys so much! xxoo