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Pumpkin Growing Contest

A friend of mine is doing this on their blog and we thought it would be a great idea for our friends and family to participate. Along with our annual pumpkin carving contest, we are going to hold a pumpkin growing contest. All the gardeners out there let’s see what you got! You have until the week before Halloween to grow the heaviest pumpkin. To participate just comment here to let us know you’re in and we will post occasionally to get updates.

We planted our seeds this evening and I installed a little sprinkler just for them. We have two large mounds of soil that we hope will be 100+ lbs pumpkins come October. Some of you live in much more fertile areas so this should be interesting don’t let us show you up down here in the desert.

 

*Extra points on the pumpkin carving if you carve a pumpkin you grew.

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4th Annual Stubblefield Pumpkin Carving Contest

Thank you to all who participated. We had a blast. A new pumpkin carving champion has been declared. We had a good run as champions but it was bound to come to an end sooner or later. Here are the results from the 2008 Pumpkin Carving Competition. All pumpkins were very well done. We were impressed. We would also like to declare Erin as the cootie winner. Highlights of the evening included Maridith being covered in pumpkin shavings from using a dremel, the firework show from the flaming tiki (I’ll post a video on youtube) and all-around good company and treats. Be on the look out for better pictures from Robyn’s blog. Until next year. Happy Halloween!

First Place: Mitch & Anna
Second Place: Mike & Lori
Third Place: Chris
Honorable Mentions:
Kristi
Chip & Erin
Robyn & Devan
Micah & Sarah
Mike & Maridith
The group
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Halloween Fun

Last week for Family Night we thought it would be fun to get some decorations up. We decided that we would make a couple of scarecrows to sit by our front door. It was fun for Micah and I but Jackson and Lacey LOVED it! We saved some newspapers from the few days before and Jackson crumpled a piece at a time and threw them on the floor around Lacey.
Every time a piece of crumpled newspaper came flying Lacey’s way she would laugh uncontrollably which set Jackson off too. They were really enjoying each other.

Here is our final product.

The other day Jackson went to get the mail with me and there was a little town newspaper on the driveway… He picked it up, removed the rubber band while he was running inside, and started taking the newspaper apart piece by piece and crumpling each page! He was so proud of himself and was missing Lacey’s laughter (she was napping) … he asked if he could go wake her up and was so sad when I told him she needed rest and he needed to clean up the mess he just made! What a mean mom!

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