Pumpkin Festival

Today was our towns annual pumpkin festival. We entered a pumpkin. Joe and the kids worked on it today. Here is what they came up with...

Cannibal pumpkin

Joe and the girls brought it to enter it. They put it in under our family name, but they told them they had to put a grade so since Natalie was filling it out she put her grade and school.
Sitting on the judging bleachers

They came home so we could have dinner and what not. Judging wasn't going to be until after dark when they would be lit. We went back after dinner and couldn't find the pumpkin. It was on the winner bleachers...
A 3rd place ribbon for the 6-8 grade age group

Here was the 1st place winner in that category...


And the 2nd place winner...


Natalie loved this one because it was a penguin...


Now Elmo, that's a different pumpkin...



Natalie with the pumpkin

All four kids and the 3rd place pumpkin...



We were so excited to see a ribbon on our pumpkin. Last year we didn't get anything. So it was great to see something this year. There are always some really creative pumpkins there.