Pumpkin Picking

We've had Halloween fever at our house recently (more on that later...) so we were pretty anxious to get our pumpkins.  Last year, we waited a little too long and all the good ones were gone.  So, this year, on October 1st, we were the first ones in the patch :)

We go to this fun little farm only a mile or two from our house.  The kids had fun pretending to drive the tractor.

And from now on, on this blog, instead of picking out the very best picture, I'm going to post the "picture taking process".  If photographing two is hard, then three is harder.  Again with the eyes, Bridger!  Sometimes I have to tell him to smile like he's a human boy.  Kennedy's pretty good--except she's got that frozen smile from her namesake...(scroll through these three pictures to see the transition of a dying smile...)  And then Charlotte.  She's still small, but you can see in her eyes in the first picture that she really really really wants to lick that pumpkin.

Like a true princess....Bridger, as usual, is the horse slave prince.  Honestly, it was his idea.  I'm sure the ride was a little bumpy for her :)

I wish we had space for a large pumpkin patch!  I would set out a hundred of them if I could!

When we first got there, I told Jer that I really wanted a Cinderella pumpkin.  Kennedy heard the magic word and wanted one too, of course! 

This is seriously the biggest pumpkin we have ever gotten! And the stem is so long and pretty--Jer found it--he has a good eye for pumpkins :)

Here's the loot!  After each picking out one (we got the white one for Charlotte...) Kennedy and Bridger decided that we all needed a baby pumpkin too.  It was a heavy wagon!  We took them home, hosed them off and now they take semi-permanent residence on our front porch.  They're just so cute and colorful!