Carving Pumpkins!

Nick was excited to be able to try to carve his pumpkin this year by himself... With a little help! He choose to do a smiley face on his pumpkin. He carved out the nose all by himself. Mommy helped him with the eyes and mouth.
William helped both Greg and I to get the insides out of our pumpkins. He wasn't quite sure about sticking his hand in the pumpkin, but after we gave him the little scooper he was just fine. He had a good time flicking pumpkin all over...

We only had a small mess to clean up! Those are my favorite kinds of messes, the ones that don't take long... We will reveal our faced pumpkins on Halloween!

Corn Maze

September 10, 2008

Another one of our family traditions in the fall is to visit a corn maze. For the past 5 years we have went to the Rutledge Corn Maze. Every year they change the theme. Last year it was a Pirate just like Nick and we let him take his pirate hook with us. This year, it wasn't anything too exciting... It was a bank, I'm sure the sponsor of this years corn maze. It is still fun to get lost in the corn...
Here is a picture of the boys at the entrance of the maze. This is before William became scared of the corn blowing in the wind. The only way we could get him to walk, or should I say run was to say go... He then would run to catch Nicholas. I think it made him concentrate less on what was happening around him.
We found the first checkpoint. Both of the boys were excited.
There were two bridges in the maze. It's kind of neat to be able to look out on all of the corn that seems to go forever.
The boys wondering... Toward the end of the corn maze, William wasn't quite as afraid of the corn. But my bladder was about to explode. I wondered if we would ever find our way out...Thankfully, we made it out just in time.