The Great Pumpkin Fest

Some times life you have to something so out of the ordinary and that is just what my mom and I did on Sunday. Her sister was having a Halloween party of sorts where you bring your pumpkins carve them and roast hot dogs so we decided to go. What makes this out of the ordinary you may ask, her sisters live in Vernal and we wanted to surprise them. So bright and early we loaded the car with pumpkins, paints and carving tools and away we went. We got there a little early and just as Gage was getting out of church, so we met him at Smith's and drove around the area looking for interesting pictures to take. Love these two pictures

We arrived and what a surprise it was, despite what her sisters were saying. We roasted hot dogs and then got straight to the pumpkins

Young and old gathered on the grass to gut the pumpkins and begin carving them

Or in my mom's case paint them

Of course painting is easy and she was the 1st one done.

Oh his aching head....

The weather was nice which was good considering how it was Saturday afternoon, I was worried that once we drove the 3.5 hours to get there the weather would be icky and we would have to miss the fun

Toward the end of our time there it started to get a little chilly so we gathered around the fire to keep warm

I took some random pictures of the flames

All in all we had a great time, at least I know I did, not so sure about Gage and my mom. It was really nice to get to spend some time with Gage as I don't get much and he will be leaving soon to go on his mission. It has been a great Birthday week thus far and have I mentioned how much I love fall. There is so much to do and it is not super hot outside so you can really enjoy it. I hope you are all out enjoying this nice fall.

Pumpking pickin' and a little fall fun

Suprise, two posts in two days. It looks like I may have come out of my funk, but who wouldn't when you spend the day with the most amazing people ever. I am of course referring to my family. Today we got to go to the Barn for some pumpkin pickin' We alway go to Southridge Farms in Santaquin for our pumpkins. We started going years ago when Jared and I first lived in Santaquin and even though we have long since moved away we still continue the tradition.

We started with a hay ride to the patch. We rode on the trailer with the hay bales to make it as authentic as possible. This is is the 1st year that Amy has joined us and I hope she continues to come back

They alway have photo op's set up once you get to the pumpkin patch. This yar included benches and a little wooden fence. Ruby is just too cute not to take a zillion pictures of and I don't see her that often so I have to make up for lost time.

We could not get Ruby to look straight at us so we decided ot take the sideway approach to the pictures. Poor Kim was more that a litttle tired after haivng worked a grave yard shift she came right to the pumpkin patch.

The five of us

A look at the patch. I think this is where the great pumpkin lives

Cuteness

We tried to get the older kids to keep looking at us until we could get Ruby to look but it never worked out right

All but me in this picture. Maybe some photoshoping will make it right

Another look at the patch and the dark clouds moving in

Too cute to Spook, she is so dang cute and a little sweetheart once she warms up to you

mm.... ice cream. Poor wee one I had her on a bench to take a picture and she toppled right over ona face planted on the floor

After we got doen at the barn we all gathered back at my mom;s house for a little fall fun playing on the leaves. Ruby wasn't sure what to think at 1st but after Grandma got in and showed here it was fun she liked it. Sadie really wanted her picture taken too, she would not move.

Here she wasn't so sure

Having fun!

With Daddy

The kids got to decorate sugar cookies too and they thought that was fun until they found out the didn't get to eat all the ones they decorated.

Eryk eating his cookie. I realized that I didn't get a lot of pictures of the older kids and felt kind of bad.

We had a really great time as we always do when we get together and I am really blessed to have such a great family. I love them