Pumpkin Day

Fall is here! Well, on the calendar at least...the weather forecast hasn't quite received the memo yet. I'm so ready for jeans and boots and stomping through piles of leaves. To celebrate fall's arrival our family celebrated by having a PUMPKIN DAY on Friday. What is a pumpkin day, you ask?

It started with a pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks, the first of the season. We all went to Starbucks and sat outside enjoying our breakfast.

Next stop: pumpkin picking! As in picking up a pumpkin from the pile at Tom Thumb. We picked a perfect pumpkin. We sat it out on the front porch when we got home and Eva was fascinated by it. (Side note: I am in love with her orange fall dress. She will wear it many times in the next 2 months.)

Then it was time for pumpkin painting! I kept it simple here and just had her paint a print out of a pumpkin rather than an actual pumpkin. We'll save that for next year.

 

Such an artist. I used this homemade paint recipe and put it in a squeeze bottle. I thought the squeezing part would be fun but she mostly wanted me to squeeze the paint on the paper and she'd smear it around. And eat it.

To end our pumpkin fun I made some candy pumpkins for Ryan and I to enjoy. My friend Kim gave me this recipe for peanut butter pumpkins. They are supposed to be bright orange but mine are much more of a harvest brown. I'm pretty sure that this happened because I used a mixture of peanut butter and milk chocolate chips instead of just peanut butter chips. Oh well, what they lack in color they make up for in deliciousness.

Happy Pumpkin-ing to my fellow lovers of fall!