Another Pumpkin Patch and Carving Pumpkins

So yesterday we went to another pumpkins patch- this time with John so he could get in on all the Halloween fun.  It was fun, but wouldn't recommend it over the other one we went to, mainly because they have a really fun boat ride and train ride, but it is way expensive and you can only go on once, unless you want to spend a ton of money.  Jackson absolutely loved the boat and train ride and was just beaming from ear to ear and kept yelling choo choo! But after the first ride, he ran back to the boat and wanted to go again and so we ended up having to carry a kicking and screaming little boy back to the car and then listen to him cry for while saying,  "choo choo, please" ...... not very fun, especially when you can't really explain to a kid that's not even 2 yet why we can't keep riding them.  But we ended up driving all the way to the other patch so that we could go on as many of the free tractor rides there as Jack wanted before heading home with some more super yummy carmel apples.  So the afternoon turned out good, and then last night we had our friends Tom & Lisa with their kids Jack and Lucy come over to carve pumpkins!  It was a fun night- made some yummy pizzas, watched the dry ice smoke over the counter(which Jackson thought was so cool), drank some homemade root beer, had pumpkin squares for dessert, watched Jack and Jack chase each other in circles while giggling like crazy, and then carved some pumpkins!  Jackson loved helping John scoop out the pumpkin guts, but with a spoon- he really didn't like it when he got some on his hands.  He also loved it when we lit candles inside of them and turned out all the lights.  I am just happy to have a kid that is finally old enough to be into Halloween!

I wish I had tons more pictures from the pumpkin patch, but unfortunately, Jackson was way too excited and distracted by the boat and train that he would not stop to even glance at the camera.  So here's the only good one we got from the afternoon:

gotta love free tractor-pulled hay rides

and here's some pictures of the pumpkin carving

scooping out pumpkin guts

as you can see- Jack really didnt like getting any of the pumpkin guts on his hands

and the final products from left to right- Lisa's goofy pumpkin face, my apparently baby pumpkin face as Tom called it (I was going for just happy, traditional face, but I am not so artistic), and John's scary pumpkin face