Balluminaria At Eden Park 2011

Balluminaria

We have finally arrived 2 trips up the hill 1 to the shuttle bus pick up that did not exist.  After finding out the shuttle bus did not exist we went back up the hill past eden park and parked 6 blocks up the hill from Eden Park which does not sound so bad when you are walking down the hill to get back to the park.

This was a beautiful event.  We could not have had more perfect weather.



Circleville Pumpkin Fest

Circleville Pumpkin Show

We went to the pumpkin show on October 22 we had decided to take the backroads and too check out all of the beautiful fall foliage.  We did take the back roads and it was a nice drive but we did not get to see much fall foliage because we did not count on the wind storm that had blown through the weekend before taking all of the leaves away. Oh well Gnome happens!!!

 I need to tell you the drive from home was only 2 hours. During this 2 hours drive we had to make 3 pee stops for the almost thirty something and the thirty something drivers that were traveling in the car behind us. OMG the closer we got to this town the more insane we decided these people were. People were just pulling of the road and parking everywhere on the sides of the road.  We chose to take a chance and go on in to town and pay to park since we were traveling with Brenda the gimp who had dropped a laptop on her toe the weekend before and broke her toe.

 Below is a picture of the traveler behind us with the wee little bladders.

Here is our group that went to the Pumpkin Show

Brenda, Preston, Jonne, Audrey, Norma, Angie, Jessica

This town is totally obsessed with the whole pumpkin show thing.  This is their sewer cover on the street.

Little miss independant leading mamaw

This festival was huge just ask queenie's feet.  It just kept going and going and going. Everytime you would think you were at the end of a section it would go down another street. This festival probably covered 12 blocks of town.

This was the center of town it was really cool.  The pumpkin tower is enormous and all of the pumpkins and gourds are for sale. This area was packed there were so many people it was insane.

The Largest Pumpkin Pie we had ever seen. It was about 8 ft. in diameter.

This is were we purchased the infamous pumpkin burger.

This is us eating a pumpkin burger!

This is us not so sure we like pumpkin burger

Still debating. We think it's OK probably will not try again.

There were many options of pumpkin foods.  Pumpkin pie, Pumpkin Joe, Pumpkin Taco, Pumpkin Donuts and Pumpkin Ice Cream.  We decided after the pumpking burger we were not going to be adventurous with anymore food.

Preston went with old Faithful the Elephant Ear.

Audrey also stuck with the standards can't go wrong with cotton candy.

Brenda was just Thirsty after all that walking.

Good times and Good Memories were made by all today.  The festival was interesting to say the least it was 80 percent food booths, 10 percent hat booths, 5 percent pumpkins and gourds and 5 percent shops. It was not the giant craft show we thought it would be but no matter what we had fun as we always do no matter what we are doing.

Halloween Campout 2011

This is our campsite Friday morning. Notice how clean, neat and organized it is.

Now we have properly placed our chairs around the fire ring. We are still doing really good.

We have now began to unload the campers let the chaos begin.

 This is the moonscape that Donna painted for us.

Below is the space we are going to invade.

The ALIENS have landed

This was pretty awesome the alien heads went to the beat of the music. The flood light in the bottom of the space ship lit the ground up just enough so that you could see everything. The stars with the blue LED lights glowed brilliantly. Everything came together perfectly yet again. With no help from Mother Nature who lent us 30 mile an hour gust of wind to deal with.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner! 5 Years running!!!!

Pumpkin Carving Time

Not to brag or nothing but we are pretty good at this whole pumpkin carving thing and this year we took it one step further thanks to Brenda and her purchase of the "Pumpkin Gutter 2000" we are now much more efficient at the cleaning part of our pumpkins.

Preston, Drew and Kenzie

Madison, Natalia and Drew

Natalia

Preston and Madison

Drew

Madison and Natalia ( by the way this is Natalia's first pumpkin cutting experience notice the smile she still thinks this is really fun)

The words that were coming out of her mouth were oooooh Yuck!!!

She had enough she let Poppy come in and finish cleaning it with the Pumpkin Gutter 2000

Kenzie and Preston trying to get the top off of the pumpkin

Madison and Natalia

Madison and Poppy

Poppy and Drew

Zach and Drew

Brenda

The Clan

Zach and Andrew

Andrew

Madison, Natalia and Kenzie

Jonne and Kenzie

Our Pumpkin Display

CRAFT TIME!!!! WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!!

This is Audrey and I she is my crafting buddy at Little Farm.

Madison and Natalia

Drew making his foam monster.

My crafting buddy has now gotten bored and left me to craft by myself.  Its OK I am used to it.  There are pictures of me on Little Farms website crafting by myself with no children in site.  I am usually one of the last to leave the crafting area.

Madison and Natalia making necklaces

Donna the Space Woman and her "Special" Space Sister Brenda.

The whole group that dressed up waiting for the costume contest.

People Pics at our Photo Op

Jonne and Brenda

John and Brenda

Andy and Kenzie

Jonne and Angie

Preston and Jessica

Jonne and Jessica

Angie with No One she must have taken her shoes off!

Natalia and Madison

Preston and Jonne

Brenda and David

Random Pics of people during the weekend.

Dad and Kenzie

John, Josh and Kevin

Dad and Brenda

Donna and Holly

Abby

I am not sure but I think Kenzie has gotten Saturday Night Fever!!!

Jessica and Kevin

Ashley

Jessica

Angie and Kevin cooking breakfast

all of us just look lost

Natalia

Jessica coming over so she can try and say she helped with breakfast! (notice she only brought an empty container)

Luminary Display for Mom

We did a beautiful luminary display for mom on Saturday evening after all of the festivities were over. In total there were nine luminary balloons bought and we wrote messages on them to mom afterwards we took them out to the street and lit the candle things and let them fill up then released them.  Cassi has pictures of them and soon as she gives them to me I will get them posted on here.

All in all we had a gnoming good time. Thanks to everyone that came out to Little Farm and participated in this annual event with us. We carried on just like mom would have wanted us too and with the support of everyone it made it a whole lot easier.  Thanks