More Pumpkins!

For as long as I can remember, each year around Halloween we have gone to the pumpkin walk. The pumpkin walk is a fun event where people or groups create scenes based off of a theme - and everything (at least the majority of the stuff) in the scene is made out of pumpkins! It is always lots of fun, extremely entertaining, and FREE! Today we went with my grandparents so they could enjoy. It is fun to see at night, too, when it is all lit up. I really do love pumpkins!

This was one of my favorite scenes. It was a hospital. I thought the woman that was puking her "guts" (aka pumpkin seeds) out was hilarious. And can you see all of the babies made of little pumpkins on the right hand side? It was really cute! (you can click on the pictures to get a better view)

This was another favorite, "Noah's Ark". I thought it was so clever how they used pumpkins as elephant bums. And the tumbleweeds for the sheep. How do people come up with these things?

Until Steve arrived towards the end, it was just Grandpa and all his girls going through the Pumpkin Walk. When we mentioned that he had alot of girls with him he said "Good! I like girls!" It was so much fun!

PUMPKINS!

I love pumpkins! I love to carve them, I love to paint them. I love the smell of them. But most of all, I love to eat them! Yum, Yum, Yum! Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies, Pumpkin Bread, Pumpkin roll, Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkin Ice Cream (from Cold Stone - Sooooooo Good!) you name it, I love it! This week I found special edition Pumpkin Spice Quaker oatmeal at the store. Of course, I had to buy some. It was good (though not super pumpkin-ey). One thing that I had never done and always wanted to was make a dinner in a pumpkin. This year we finally tried it, and this was the end result:

You clean out a pumpkin and fill it with a stuffing made with LOTS of things. Then you bake it. When you serve it you take a scoop of the stuffing, and you scrape the cooked pumpkin off the sides to eat along with it. It was my first time eating pumpkin as a squash side dish, and I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it! Definitely a worthy effort. Plus, I think it turned out so pretty! It fed 12 people quite easily. I think this is going to become a yearly tradition in our home!

This is what our supper looked like after Liz and Steve got to it. They pulled off pieces of the pumpkin skin and created a "Jack-o-lantern". I think it looks like ET.

Madison found her Uncle Eric's hat. She loved it. Doesn't she look adorable?