Seven Lakes High School Pumpkin Patch Fest

Last Saturday Darin and I took Amberly and Trent to the Seven Lakes Orchestra Pumpkin Patch Fest. It's amazing how it has grown over the years! The weather was actually perfect for being outside and we really enjoyed ourselves!

Amberly wanted her hair spray painted green to go with her witch costume for the Ward Trunk or Treat we went to that night.

Amberly and Trent went on the hay ride through the neighborhood.
Hayride leaving

Amberly posing in the pumpkin patch.

I didn't get any pictures of it, but Trent's favorite thing at the festival was actually the students from the orchestra who were gathered together playing music. He just sat there and watched them spellbound by them. He began playing the cello this year and absolutely loves it!

McShane Family Pumpkin Carving Traditon

For as long as I can remember the McShane family has been carving pumpkins for Halloween. This year Amberly wanted to do them as part of her family home evening. Don't ask me when, but it became a boys vs girls pumpkin contest of sorts. There's never a winner, because they each look great. But we work together as teams and have a great time! It's always fun to see what designs each team will come up with!

This year the boys team actually took one pumpkin and each designed their own faces for the different sides of the pumpkin. It came out great!

Trent and his side of the pumpkin

Eyn with his creationDarin

(yes, that's a bead necklace around his neck. For some crazy reason Amberly had Darin and myself wear long beads during the carving!)

Amberly and I decided to do a two sided pumpkin. One side had a funny face on it and the other was in honor of Elizabeth who is at BYU-Idaho. We missed her help on our pumpkin this year!! (She actually called us while we were working on our pumpkins and let us know that that's what her Family Home Evening group were doing that evening also! They even had caramel apples for dessert like we did!)

Amberly and our cooky pumpkin!

Thanks for the great Family home evening Amberly!!

Pumpkin Carving

Each year our family has fun carving pumpkins. We have always done a boys pumpkin and a girls pumpkin. It's a fun family tradition we all look forward to. With everyone's crazy schedule it's sometimes hard to accomplish, but we always do it!

I love Amberly's face in this picture as she was reaching in to pull some gooey seeds and guts out of the pumpkin. Trent and Darin hard at work on their pumpkin.

Amberly and Elizabeth working together on our masterpiece!

Love the face expression Trent!

Elizabeth getting her hands all gooey!

The Boy's Finished pumpkin!

Great job!

Introducing the girls finished pumpkin!

We call him Edward the vampire M & M pumpkin!

(Edward from the Twilight book series!)