Friday, November 4, 2011

Life Cycle of a Pumpkin

We were very impressed with our own ability to grow pumpkins this year. We had our two growing in the lilac bush and they slowly worked their way to the ground.
Then we gave our 7 year old a sharp object to cut them down,
and decorated our front porch with them (as well as a bunch of other pumpkins and gourds we got for only $9!)
The night before Halloween we brought them inside,
and ripped their guts out.
Don't let these pictures fool you, these 4 guys only lasted about as long as it took for me to take these pictures.
We gave our 7 year old another sharp object...
...and several hours later we had our jack O 'lanterns.
And we didn't forget to roast the seeds. My favorite are the pumpkin pie spice seeds on the right.

1 comment:

Niki said...

Your pumpkins got so big! We finally got some pumpkins this year and I was so excited. Their life cycle ended by Ben using them as target practice and Karmin being so upset that he was shooting the pumpkins that I had to take her to McDonalds to get her some ice cream. Oh boy.