Fall Family Tradition: Pumpkin Carving

25 posted on October 25, 2008

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Last weekend we got into the spirit of Fall and headed over to Stuckey’s Farm to pick some pumpkins. We’ve been carving pumpkins for several years with the girls always look forward to it.

The first step is to select just the right pumpkin…

…check! Pumpkins selected. Now we’re ready to carve them…

We drew out the patterns first on a piece of paper with lots of time spent discussing the various options for eyes, noses and mouths. They were very particular about carving traditional jack-o’lantern eyes but liked the goofier looking mouths (Emily’s pumpkin is on the left and Chloe’s is the one on the right).

So now most nights we have these two goofy faces staring into our house from the patio door. Sometimes we light the jack-o’lanterns and they look in too.

What are some of your favorite Fall family traditions?

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October 25, 2008

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1 Brian Becker said:

Great pics Brad! We took my nephew and niece last weekend to a giant pumpkin patch on a farm that had hay rides, a corn maze, mini pumpkin catapult contest…it wss great.

One question though…do you have to be all GQ’d to go to a pumpkin patch? Pretty dapper there bro!

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October 25, 2008

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2 Brad Ruggles said:

@Brian – Considering that most days I work from home in my pajamas, yes, I get decked whenever I can!
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October 25, 2008

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3 Jake Rasmussen said:

Our family traditions:
Saturday mornings the whole family in our bed.
Saturday morning trips to the bagel store.
Sunday morning church.
Bedtime prayers.

Dude, I totally dig your blog.

-Jake

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4 Nick said:

Your families pictures are great.
We usually carve a pumpkin and some of the family gets together to eat Chili.

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October 25, 2008

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5 Scott Fillmer said:

super pumpkin carving… just did ours as well, love photo walk you did from picking them out to finished jac-o
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6 Adam said:

Dude.. that is awesome. They look great… we did some carving yesterday with Madi and it was fun. One of my favorite things when I was a kid was making home made Apple Dumplings with my “Grammy Dot” talk about good memories.

Hope you guys are enjoying your weekend… Oh I’m starting to consider Twitter.. maybe.. just maybe.

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7 Rachel said:

They are SO cute! Great job. WOW. I’m impressed at you guys’ pumpkin carving abilities.

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8 Nick said:

Dude, the thing I noticed most about these pics is HOW COOL YOU LOOK. Love the digs… it tells me that you are a sophisticated, intelligent man who is possibly from Europe… or Indiana.

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9 Pumpkins Carved! – betterthanblank said:

[...] Did you carve already? If so leave me a comment with your post – we want to see what everyone else is doing. So far I’ve only seen Brad’s post. [...]
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10 The Secret Life of Kat said:

Can’t think of our fall traditions at the moment. I’m too distracted by the ultracool hat and scarf.

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