pumpkin craving

The final pumpkin creations.

Since you never know what the weather is going to be like before Halloween, we didn't carve pumpkins until a couple of days before and didn't put them out until the night of.  They froze the night of Halloween and turned to mush a couple of days later.  

W has never been a big fan of cleaning out the pumpkin guts.

 Pretty happy kid!

 Young artist at work.  It was hard for Z, he really wanted to crave his own pumpkin. 

 We were able to convince Zeph that coloring his own little pumpkin was much cooler.

Zeph did get to hack on a big pumpkin, after C had finished.

pumpkin patch

We went pumpkin hunting at a new field this year.  The Crazed Corn Field Maze was interesting.  It's set up in a dirt lot next to a corn field in the middle of nowhere.  There were tons of pumpkins & gourds to choose from (for cheap) along with a 20 acre crazy corn maze (not so cheap) and a bunch of other kid activities.  After carefully picking out our pumpkins, W really wanted to check out the maze.  As we approached the corn maze, we encountered the Maze Keeper.  After sizing us up, he informed us it would most likely take us about an hour to complete the maze. You might ask "why would it take an hour or more to get through a corn maze?"  You don't just wander through the Crazed Corn Field Maze, it's more of a game of hide and seek.  They  hid 18 (maybe 20) posts through out the maze with a different Halloween shape for you to trace on your paper.  If you choose to hunt down each of these posts, it will take you at least an hour, with little kids and help from other lost maze goers.  When you emerge from the maze with your completed paper, the Maze Keeper gives you a gourd.  So, not worth the gourd, but well worth the fun the kids had.  A couple of suggestions before you enter, go pee and bring a bottle of water.    

Zeph loves to do whatever W does.

Sweet wagons for hauling pumpkins.

Early in our journey through the corn maze.

hair cut

W and I headed to The Breck Hair Co for new dos recently.  He's been to the salon with me in tithe past, but this time he got a wash with his cut! He was a trooper.  He got a lot of hair cut off, just in time for the start of school.  

W's new do.