Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Pumpkin Carving a Dangerous Tradition

For FHE we carved our pumpkins - Grace was so excited she was doing it all herself and didn't need much help so I started roasting pumpkin seeds and then heard screaming and looked at the table and Derek being the cute 15 yr old boy that he is had apparently cut a huge hole out of the front of his pumpkin - and had been building a fire inside and now the pumpkin was engulfed in flames! I sometimes do not even understand where these ideas come from! We got the pumpkin outside safely and he protested putting the fire out -so he sat and watched it and continued to put things in it to keep it burning! Maybe he needs counseling? The rest of the pumpkins turned out cute! Of course all made by the girls!

Here he is trying to burn down the house! Notice the earbuds which are constantly in his ears - maybe he was listening to Burn baby Burn! hehehehe
The flaming pumpkin! it started smelling like Pumpkin pie after awhile

See girls are so cute!
Grace carved this pumpkin all by herself! She was very proud!
Savannah and her pumpkin! No fire just a cute little candle!

10 comments:

Phil and Kierstin said...

Now that looks like fun, right - I'm so confused now!

Esther Attridge said...

That is hillarious!! At least he had a good time :)

rexburgskinners said...

How fun! Derek needs to come down here where they shoot pumpkin pieces out of a cannon!? Have a great Halloween!

Geoff said...

Derek is such a boy! And the girls are such, well, girls. I must admit I'm a little disappointed. I was waiting for you to say that Steve carved his entire pumpkin using an arthroscope through a small hole in the back of the pumpkin. ;)

Diana and Derek said...

Derek, you would fit in perfectly here. Our boys just wanted to leave the pumpkin as is, no carving. It's a pumpkin, get it? Send him down, a pumpkin fire would be fun!

John and Ann Tolman said...

Yeah - does the thought "boys will be boys" make you wonder what (insane) mother or father came up with it's all okay...BUT!it really does get better when it your "grandchildren" that do the silly things. You just have to look at the prents and smile...

Shannon said...

oh Derek!! hahahaha
Seriously who does that?! I love that he is listening to his Ipod while blowing up a pumpkin...Classic!

Anonymous said...

I am so sorry about that, I think he did get a few of the Terry and Darren gene's! Thank goodness for girls! We did not have any pumpkin fires here, hum maybe that is only because ours is not carved yet!

Karen said...

I am stil chuckling about the smokin' pumpkin! I will remember that for when by boy gets that age! Your girls are so beautiful! Enjoy your Halloween.

Katelyn said...

I miss Savannah so much! I thought she was going to be a parate for halloween thou?!

~katelyn