Pumpkin Festival

This one of the brief times when the big boys deigned to be seen with me. Most of the day, they were relishing their independence by running around the fairgrounds with their friends. You can see Matthew with his spoils of the day, a cardboard engineer hat, a balloon from our church's booth, and licking the cotton candy from his fingers. Evan lost his balloon shortly after refusing to let me tie it to his wrist.This pumpkin weighs over 300 pounds! The biggest one there was over 11oo pounds! Matthew preferred this one though b/c he was tall enough to reach the top for drumming!Although you see a pumpkin in Ryan's arms, I guarantee he and his friend were discussing football. In fact, amongst all the booths of pumpkin bread, pumpkin dip, pumpkin fudge, pumpkin butter, and salsa (not made of pumpkin but there's was lots of salsa for sale), they managed to find the booth selling football cards. Ryan even asked if we could back today so he could buy the Carson Palmer card he didn't buy yesterday.

Evan and Matthew both painted their pumpkins for the contest. Evan was making a cardinal and Matthew was making a black bear, both to fit the Wild, Wonderful West Virginia theme.