More pumpkins!

**I'm almost all caught up! I have one more post I may try to squeeze in before I post all about Halloween so keep checking back, I'm on FIRE!**

Yesterday you read my scintillating post about our adventure-filled trip to the pumpkin patch. I then left you with a cliffhanger: "What did they do with those pumpkins!?!" The suspense must have been killing you. I apologize, but now you get another post!

I thought hard this year about what we were going to do with our pumpkins and I came up with an idea that I think is genius! The girls painted their pumpkins and the boys carved theirs. This way, everyone got to do something with their pumpkin and I didn't have to do all of the work (mostly for the girls, the boys proved last year that they're pretty good pumpkin carvers).

We aren't one of those families who goes crazy with pumpkin carving. We don't do intricate designs or anything fancy. We're pretty traditional and old school.

Here are the pictures (there's a lot of them - I'm trying to overcompensate for the pumpkin patch picture debacle):

These girls loved painting their pumpkins. It was so nice to just sit back and watch them do their thing (much better than trying to let them 'help' me carve).

 Love this cute messy, necked baby!

 Clayton was an animal! He worked so hard!

 The girls pumpkins. I think they turned out adorable!

 Clayton and Noah got a little help from Justin for some of the more intricate parts.

The boys had gotten haircuts that morning. They apparently gave Noah stickers. He put that one on his forehead and it stayed there all day.

 Love the look of concentration.

  The boy's finished pumpkins.

I love the bumpy pumpkins. Clayton's especially (his is probably my favorite - but shhhhh, don't tell the other kids!).

 All four:

 The boy's all lit up (Josie got mad at this point because hers didn't light up - oops):

Getting ready to put them by the front door (we had to wait for the paint to dry on the girl's pumpkins so we did this the next day after church - that's why they're especially fancy).

Love these kids and the pumpkins that they decorated (almost) entirely by themselves. We had the best night doing this with them. I love that they're getting old enough where projects like this are truly family events (not just me and Justin doing the work while the kids get bored and leave). These kids are pretty awesome! Bring on Halloween!