Pumpkin Head Man

I heart my small little town. We have a cute little place where this old farmer makes willow wreaths and in the fall he has pumpkins. He told us he decided 10 years ago October was just going to be about having fun. Which makes perfect sense since it is my birthday month! :) So, some friends and I decided to go get pumpkins, take some pictures and then paint them. Kennedy and some of the little kids were scared of Mr. Dabs as the pumpkin head but warmed up to him after a while. He would just walk around doing magic tricks and talking about his pumpkins, you could tell he just loved it.

It's funny all of the kids different expressions. One lady came up to us and asked if we were all on a field trip. It was pretty funny because it just happened that there were alot more kids there than we planned which was great but we just laughed and said yeah I guess you could call it a field trip. Mr. Dabbs was so nice and patient and just loved taking all of the pictures with us, and we took a ton.

So they had these really cute corn stalks there for $5 for a huge bundle. My friend Carly and I wanted som and were sure we could fit them in my car. The funny thing is last year, her and I were on a bike ride together around the neighborhood and there were a bunch of corn stalks in this guys yard with a sign FREE. We of course could not pass up the opportunity so we stuck them in the back of my bike trailer, roots and all and rode them home. We laughed so hard the whole way because of how ridiculous we must have looked. So this time we were remembering our silliness of a year ago and again had a good laugh.

We could barely see and the kids kept complaining cuz they couldn't see.

The kids had fun painting the pumpkins, thank goodness for washable paints! And it really does come right out!

The finished product. We took a few ideas from some magazines for the adult pumpkins.

Kennedy's blue pumpkin. It's really just all the paints mixed together. So if you ever wondered, that's the color it makes. She was very proud!

Below, my front step with the very tall corn stalks. They have red berry type things on the top. Are the just the tassells? I don't know but I sure thought they were cute! Notice I have grass!! Woo hoo!

And in the back too! Chad built this rock wall...or line of rocks..whatever but I love it! Next step...trees and plants!

Wow! I am amazed I got all of these pictures in! And this happened yesterday, not 2 weeks ago! I might even do another post tomorrow...if your lucky. ;)