About a month before I planted the pumpkins, I planted some sweet potatoes. There are only 5 vines in this box!!! We did a little better with them than the pumpkins. They were expensive to buy and we ‘might’ have gotten a little better yield if we had waited until the leaves turned. Of course, we didn’t know when to pick them and the first one we found was HUGE. It was a lot of work keeping both crops watered over the drought. As it turned out we probably should have watered the pumpkins less, but we won’t know until we try again next year. We tried these crops because the price of everything keeps going up and I thought we should try other things. To be honest though, I HATE gardening in the summer and I even had to force myself to plant some lettuce this week. It was fun trying new things!!
Uh oh!! Turns out we did have to dig to find our treasure 
Again, the cattle panel was to help keep chickens out.
Alex and Mark getting into ‘character’. Alex is a serial killer and Mark is a Zombie.
Mark’s face make-up turned out so cool! It was even more awesome when his face started falling off toward the end of the party 
I think Alex forgot what ‘character’ he was supposed to be.
This is Rebekah and her cousin as newborn vampires. Yes, think ‘Twilight’.
Justin got home from work sometime after the party started. Very proud of his Angry Bird in a Santa hat!!!
Mark’s pumpkin was a combination picture. On one side he freehanded the Batman symbol and on the other he freehanded ‘Minecraft’. It is a game.
Rebekah painstakingly traced this from a book we had and yours truly got the job of cutting it out. First, we grew these pumpkins and the flesh was about two inches thick with a hard outer crust. Second, it is kinda cool that you cannot tell that I lobbed off one of his horns and that his lower jaw was barely hanging on!!!
