It was a never-ending month of pumpkins, pumpkins and
MORE pumpkins at our house!
The insurance company that Rod now works for owns 1000 acres of farmland in Green River.
They grow delicious watermelon, cantaloupe, other cool and yummy melons . . .
AND PUMPKINS!
They are very generous to their clients - and friends - and every other random person in the world - and give all of their melons and pumpkins away for
FREE . . .
Which means that we got to be part of getting the pumpkins and melons where they needed to go! While we were more than ready for the month and pumpkins to end, we had a great time
being a part of the whole experience!
The pumpkin festivities started with the girls' school. The Banasky's (Rod's employer) donated pumpkins to every child at the elementary school (as well as several other schools throughout the state). Rod and the girls got to help pass them out to every kid . . . on the only day it snowed in October! Poor girls! They were FROZEN!
The kids were given the opportunity to take their pumpkins home, decorate them, and bring them back for a pumpkin decorating contest.
Our girls had a great time coming up with ideas for their own pumpkins,
and they turned out SO cute, but unfortunately because Rod and I were involved in the contest, their pumpkins couldn't get picked to win.
This is just a small glimpse of what the pumpkin contest looked like! There were over 460 entries! Rod and I could not pick because there were so many creative and fun entries - so we eliminated ourselves as the judges and assigned the job to others at the school that day!
One of the sixth grade classes came up with the idea to do a theme as a class. Each of the kids decorated their pumpkin as a character from Angry Birds. It was pretty creative . . . and it won them a pizza party!
Rod and I wanted the girls to see what the farm looked like with all of the pumpkins, so we took them on a little trip to Green River and Moab. They had a blast picking pumpkins and gourds all day, and would have been content doing nothing else for the rest of the weekend!
We brought several pumpkins home with us, and then decided that it would be fun to have Rod's boss drop off even more so we could have a pumpkin party at our house!
We had no idea just how many pumpkins we would actually end up with!
We had a great turn-out of friends and family and have decided to make it an annual event, so if you missed us this year, come join us next year!
I'm sure the neighbors thought we were crazy!
We were amazed that not one pumpkin got smashed until Halloween night!
We joined Rod's boss and his wife at the local rec center for a Halloween Extravaganza. Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures, but we gave away
NINE pallets of pumpkins to anyone that came! It was amazing - and who doesn't love free?!
Are you "pumpkined-out" yet?!?
We almost didn't carve any of our pumpkins because
we were definitely getting "pumpkined-out", but we decided we couldn't break tradition and did it anyway!
The girls did most of it on their own, and they did a great job!
Carsyn's pumpkin
Tyleigh's pumpkin
Camryn's pumpkin
Thank Heavens Halloween . . . and the pumpkins are over . . . until next year!
