pumkin chunkin

The second annual Stoney Creek Circle Punkin Chunk happened the Saturday after Halloween.  After all, you have to do something with all those jack o lanterns and they are going to end up as compost anyways.

This year, instead of just throwing them around in the street, Evie and Jim constructed this contraption.  This allowed the girls to get some air under those pumpkins

Taylor could really make it fly.

Paige's whole pumpkin took a flight.

And then Dad sent one soaring.  Stand back everyone!

Don't know why this picture loaded so big, but it is a very good shot of Glen busting up our simple machine.   Fortunately, we had extra lumber.  After this shot, Jim broke a board too.  Man is more powerful than pumpkin.

Evie's cute pumpkin before it hits it's fate

Evie sends her pumpkin flying we all had a great time watching them get smashed up.  Then they threw them all into the wheelbarrel to be compost for next year's garden.

Halloween

I am bound and determined to get caught up on this blog without skipping anything.  We've had some big stuff go on lately, but now things are settling down before the holidays.  Want to catch everyone up.

We returned home after CeCe's baptism and the girls wanted to carve their pumpkins.  Remember, this was back on Oct 30.   We threatened that they had to clean out all the junk in car before they started.  It took them 5 seconds and they were ready to go.

The spooky finished projects.

Then they decided that they wanted to make these spooky cupcakes.  Since we had everything on hand, I gave in and helped them.

Evie stirred the cobwebs.

annalise stirred the brownie.  They didn't look as good as the picture but they tasted awesome.

Finally Halloween was here and it was a beautiful night to trick or treat.  Another year without winter coats.  that's a success in anyone's book.

Who ever heard of a spooky fairy?  The ghost was spooky enough.  They collected a nice full pumpkin of candy which we gorged on right away.  There is still a good amount left, but Jim and i have already eaten all the good stuff.

It's a real bomb

inspired by the kid in the Indianapolis newspaper last week,   Evie and JIm set out to create ther own bomb in the basement




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Here's her first trial run.  It was pretty exciting and held promise for things to come.

This was the big one that she and Jim worked on for about 45 minutes.  They said that once you get weaving, it goes pretty fast.

And then they wastched more youtube videos and learned a different technique to make this one up the slide