I Never Met a Pumpkin I Didn't Like

Fall is my favorite season of the year!  This picture makes me hyperventilate...

 I love the shorter days, the cooler temperatures (?), the leaves turning beautiful colors, and the pumpkins.......I love pumpkins!  I love to decorate my house for Fall.  I start with the leaves in September and then work my way up to the pumpkins in October and then add the turkeys and Pilgrims in November.  My daughter said it looks like The Great Pumpkin threw up all over my house.  I can't help it -- I love Fall.

 My children and I have carved pumpkins every year for as long as I can remember--it was a special tradition in our family.  When they were very little, I would carve the pumpkin.  But when they got older, I would get each of us a pumpkin and let them carve their own.

When my kids were all gone, I missed carving pumpkins with them....
Then, my daughter became a third-grade teacher....and one day she came home and asked me if I would carve a pumpkin for the third grade to enter into the pumpkin-carving contest!  I was thrilled!  Her school mascot was the tiger so I carved this pumpkin with the tiger on one side and the name of the school and the year on the other side...

I got second place ------- I was robbed!
Anyway, life goes on....but this year I look forward to carving a pumpkin with my granddaughter.  I know she will only be 6 months old then, but you have to start sometime.  I know her mother will make a pumpkin with her, too,  but Nana has a tiny, special one in mind.....