Pumpkin Carving

When we got up this morning, the only thing that we really had planned was Austin's last soccer game. At about noon, plans changed as we packed up our pumpkins (the kiddo versions AND the little orange ones we got last week) and headed over to Toni and Jason's house for some pumpkin carving fun. The adventure was made even more fun as friends of ours, Shawn and Bonnie Cunnungham, joined the group too. We seen the Cunninghams for awhile as they moved out to the county a couple of years ago and are attending another church. It was very fun to reconnect with them and catch up on things.


Griffen was very excited about his pumpkin. You can't really see it, but the black markings on his pumpkin is the face that Griff drew all by himself. We had to enlarge it a bit to carve it.


Jake worked hard at cleaning his pumpkin.

Griff's happy face pumpkin. (The original face drawing was in the eye on the left.)

Jake's "Spongebob" Pumpkin. He carved it on his own.

Austin's cute pumpkin. He drew it and had help from Dean to cut it.

Nine years ago, we went to Stoney Ridge for the first time with Toni, Jason, and Jordan and Shawn, Bonnie, and their oldest Rebecca. Afterwards, we carved our pumpkins at Shawn and Bonnie's house. We continued this for the next few years until things got busier for everyone and we all started going at different times. So today was fun to get everyone together again and document how much the kids have changed, in size and number.

The Sims, the Hendricksons, and the Cunninghams - October 1999

Our little pumpkins' first trip to Stoney Ridge.

All EIGHT kiddos today!