More Pumpkins. Giant Pumpkins.

Aaron has been carving pumpkins since he was 16 years old
At the Fall Festival Aaron met one of the people from the Utah Giant Pumpkin Growers association. He was invited to Hee Haws to carve a giant pumpkin. He had a choice out of a 750, 350, and a 150 pound pumpkin. He chose the 100 pound pumpkin this year. Here is the first few minutes into it.
Here is the table with Aaron's work in progress. You can see a couple of the giant pumpkins in the background. There is actually a kid climbing out of the one on the right. They were putting flour in it for the pumpkin drop later.
Here he is carving some of the detail on the mouth
He is finished. This pumpkin only made one small little girl cry:)
Any resemblance?
Aaron is waiting for the pumpkin drop to start and poses for a picture.
This is a picture of the two poor guys who had to move the pumpkin.
Here is a picture of the pumpkin that Aaron's friend Kyle Fox grew this year. It was on display at Macey's
Here they are loading a pumpkin on the crane. Channel 2 getting in on the action.
Up up up we go!
Way up high. They dropped several pumpkins.
They even dropped a couple on this car!! Aaron is so proud:)

Carving Pumpkins

Aaron had fun carving a pumpkin at the Country Farm Fest in October
He is happy to be half way done!!
Here he is as he begins to carve out the mouth.
They had a poster with a little about Aaron that people could read
..adding more detail
Here are a few of the tools he uses: mostly wood carving type tools and clay tools.
That looks painful!!
It's all stitched up!!
Look how proud. The pumpkin was auctioned off to the owner of Candies on main in Manti. It was a lot of fun.

Our walking adventures

So, a few days ago we walked to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. It's nice living so close and there is always such a good feeling around there. Here's a few pictures of our adventure: This is our favorite picture we got on our walk. Aaron got this picture and we are going to hang it on our wall. It reminds me of a scripture in D&C 88:7 ,"This is the light of Christ..he is the light of the sun"Here is the front view. As you can see we got there as the sun was about to go down. But it was so pretty. The dedication was awesome as well. We're glad we got to be a part of it.
It's weird seeing people there and knowing it's open now since we've seen it under construction and helped out with the open house for so long.
Here we are on the way back:)
Aaron's the king of the world! haha
....ooops, watch out for the mud Aaron!!
Another day we went up with Aaron's friend to see the view of Kennecott Copper Mine. This is on the way up.
Here is a picture I got of one of the side roads. The lighting was just perfect .
Here's is the mine. It is so big!!
We stayed until after sunset. Here we are walking up the hill. The view was awesome all around.
The lights of the Salt Lake Valley.