Trey and the Giant Pumpkin

A couple of years ago we went to the "Giant Pumpkin Weighing" and thought it was pretty cool, so we decided to take Trey this year.  We walked around for a bit and the Thanksgiving Point grounds did not disappoint.  They were beautiful!  Trey loved the giant rock :).

We are a dessert loving family.  Once we went to get a "healthier" dessert at Red Mango.  It was delicious, but apparently wasn't enough to fulfill our dessert lovingness.  We were halfway home when Dale said, "We need Second Dessert."  Funnily enough I was thinking the same thing!  Ha!  So we of course stopped for Second Dessert :).  Our time at Thanksgiving Point deemed itself dessert worthy, so we stopped and partook of some deliciousness.  We didn't even need Second Dessert after this baby :).

 Wow, huge pumpkin!  It even got the scrunch face smile from Trey...of course he actually makes that face in 9 out of 10 pictures these days, so I'm not so sure it was the giant pumpkin that brought it about :).  Even so I like to think that Trey was pretty impressed with these ginormous pumpkins.  Some of them were taller than he is.

Pumpkin Patch

This year we took Trey to a pumpkin patch.  We were so excited!  Trey didn't share our enthusiasm.  All he wanted to do was run laps around the outside of the patch.  I had to pick him up and place him inside a grove of pumpkins and then quickly take a picture so I could get some with him even near a pumpkin.  We decided the first pumpkin he picked up would be the one we bought him.  By the end of the night we had no pumpkin.  He finally decided he enjoyed knocking on them, but wouldn't touch them other than that :).  I ended up getting him a tiny little pumpkin that fit in his hands.  He tried to eat it like an apple :).

The Biggest Loser...I mean, Grower.

Today I discovered a new sport...Giant Pumpkin Growing.  No joke!  The "Utah Giant Pumpkin Growers" claim it's highly addictive.  Dale and I attended the Thanksgiving Point Pumpkin Festival today with our little niece.  These people take their pumpkin growing very seriously.  At the beginning of the "Weighing in" the DJ announced that one of the main pumpkin growers had to duck out of the competition this year because his patch was infested with some "four legged furry vermin".  The crowd literally gasped and I think I may have seen a few tears shed.  I wouldn't have been surprised if they called for a moment of silence.  Apparently Giant Pumpkin Growing is serious stuff :).  We had lots of fun with our little niece.  She loved the jumping house and walking around the garden.  Faith was not so interested in watching the weighing of the pumpkins.  Apparently Giant Pumpkin Weighing is much less invigorating that Giant Pumpkin Growing.  Who would've thought?

Aww...we love her!

Faith in the jumping house.

This was a lion statue we discovered while we were walking around.

Dale insisted I stick my finger up the lion's nose...

Then he wanted a pic of HIM putting his finger up the nose...boys :)

Faith and Dale...she cried when she had to leave.  I like to think it's because 

she had SO much fun with us :) but I think she just really needed a nap.

 Dale's friend carved this pumpkin...whoa, talented!