Sunday, October 24, 2010

Pumpkin Walk and Pumpkin Pizza



Every week before Halloween there is something called The Pumpkin Walk-and it's the cutest thing ever. We've gone every year since Heidi Anne was born, haven't missed a walk. Every year it gets to be more and more fun! The Pumpkin walk is at a local park, each year there is a theme, and people (pre-schools, classes, companies, church groups, families, ect) put together displays of painted pumpkins. All along the walk there are jack-o-lanterns on haystacks along the trail. Sometimes there are hidden objects in each display that you try to find, like a Where's Waldo, so a little walk can take like 1 hour. It's super fun! This year the theme was based off Toy Story 3 and every display had a martian hidden. We didn't find them all, but it was getting really cold-so we weren't looking to hard this year.
HELP! We're being eaten by the Great Pumpkin! We used to take tons of pictures of the displays, however, we just do our absolute favorites. One of those was the Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin. It was soo cool! Look at Snoopy-He's made out of different little pumpkins, other squashes, I even think his tail is a piece of okra as well.
Maybe Pumpkin Stroll would be a better term. It was funny because there would be random bottlenecks at some displays and then tons of space at others. Heidi girl would love to walk around when no one was around-but once she got around the crowds again back into the stroller she would climb. That's my little country girl. (Notice the denim jacket and french braid pig tails)
I thought this one was pretty cool. The Christmas tree is made out of squash, corn, beans, okra, and acorns. The pumpkins are decorated like presents-complete with ribbons and bows.This is My Neighbor Totoro, it is one of my favorite childrens' movies-I don't have it, but it's on my list of movies to get.At the end of the walk there are cut out board to take pictures with. Heidi Anne was old enough this year to play, we only got a few turns because so many people were there. Someone was nice enough to take a picture of the three of us all at once-a rarity.Then we went home for part two of our tradition. After every Pumpkin Walk we get a Jack-O-Lantern pizza from Papa Murphy's. Basically it's just a pepperoni pizza but they shape it to look like a pumpkin. It's cute to me & Heidi Anne, so Char goes with it. Besides you can never go wrong with pizza.

1 comment:

  1. Looks like you guys had a great time...thanks for sharing the pics so I could enjoy some of the pumpkin walk this year. Your cooked pizza looks delicious, makes me want to order some right now!

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