the great pumpkins

This year they introduced an interesting fundraising activity for the various committees involved in the seamless running of the Ancaster Fair. Every committee was to decorate a pumpkin(no carving) which would be put on display for the weekend for the general public to ewww and ahhh over while voting for their favourite. At the end of the weekend all the pumpkins would be auctioned off to raise money to cover the cost of busing city kids in to enjoy the fair.

Given my love for carving pumpkins Papa asked me if I would be willing to take of this task for the school fair committee, this was before we knew of the "no carving" rule. No once carving was off the table my next thought was to make it a project Abby could do, since it was the school fair's pumpkin and Abby is a school kid.



This is our pumpkin. Well, to be fair it's Mike's pumpkin. Once Abby and I started working on it Mike turned into The Craft Nazi Martha Stewart and took over the whole project. I am happy to say our pumpkin held it's own all weekend and was auctioned off for $20. Not a bad life for a pumpkin. This though.........



is pretty stinkin' cute! Mike and Papa pooled their resources and won the giant Dora head pumpkin for a bid of $30 for the girls. The hair is actually a wooden salad bowl someone had cut the bangs out of. Kind of makes our look like crap, but don't worry Mike is already hard at work on next year's design.



Maya loved the giant Dora head and spent many minutes in serious conversation with it, cupping the "face" in her hands to ensure she had Dora's complete attention. Those are the moments I could eat her up with a spoon.

And I'll close with a funny Abby story....

Saturday night we left the fair well past Abby's bedtime. Ever the little girl scout Abby had packed her blanket into her back pack in anticipation of the late night ride home. So at 11 PM as we're clicking our seat belts into place Abby calls out from under her blanket, "I wish we had an RV. Then I could just get into bed."

"That's true," I agree with her as Mike and I giggle a little behind our hands.

"We'd just have to get the crib in the RV for Maya. Is there two beds in the RV Mom? Because we need two beds and Maya's crib. Then we could sleep in the RV, but there's no TV in the RV." Mike tells here there are TV's in some RV's. Which to Abby is just about as amazing as how they got the caramilk in the caramilk bar.

So if you're keeping track at home my Princess loving little girl is now also enthralled with the Toyota Camry and, I assume, various other Toyota products, Monster Trucks (Gravedigger is her favourite) and RV's.