Davis Pumpkin Carving Party

Every year my parents have a party where everyone who can comes and carves pumpkins. The kids dress up in their costumes so that we can all see and we have dinner. It is one of my favorite Halloween traditions. This year it was raining and we confined to the garage for carving pumpkins, but we had a great time. For those of you who don't know Zach is a master pumpkin carver and I am mediocre at best. Most years I get so frustrated that I throw my pumpkin away and mope. This year however was a different story. Zach got stuck helping one of our nephews carve his pumpkin and so he didn't have time to do his own and mine actually turned out nice. Toby loved carving pumpkins as well. He thought that pulling out the guts was fun and would then drop them in the garbage can for me. He also enjoyed throwing the top of my pumpkin away and eating pieces of pumpkins. It was a great pumpkin carving party.

Visit to the Pumpkin Patch

Monday night we went to Black Island Farms with Carolyn's family. First we took a tractor ride to the pumpkin patch. We all picked out our own pumpkins, even Toby got one, and then rode back to the farm. Toby loved, loved, loved the tractor ride. He wasn't very excited about sitting on my lap until we started moving. We were at the front of the bench and he had a clear view of it in front of us. He just stared in shock at the tractor and every once in a while would start giggling. In the pumpkin patch Toby got excited about all of the pumpkins. When he got close to one he would just hit it with both hands and laugh.

Back at the farm there were animals. Toby couldn't get enough of the turkeys. Every time they started gobbling he got a shocked look on his face and would look around like he didn't know where it was coming from. Then there was the slide. Toby loves slides. Toby and Keyan went down the slide over and over again. They just couldn't wait to get back on slide. It was such a fun night and we had a great time.