Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Calvin's Pumpkin Carving event - Oct 2023

 

This Past Sunday, October 29th 

after our morning service

some of us from Calvin stuck around and carved pumpkins and shared a meal together.  


Here are Cheryl, Scott, and Janelle getting started. 
The guts of the pumpkin must come out first. 



Here's Emma and Liam and Drew and Margaret getting started on their pumpkins.  


Some carved, and some painted their pumpkins. 
I think Laura and little Isaac are going to Paint theirs.  


Marc is starting his family's pumpkins : )  
The kids are AWOL.  


This is the way we clean out the pumpkin, 
clean out the pumpkin 
clean out the pumpkin 
after the morning service : ) 




Everyone is hard at work creating.  


Yuck : )  
Good Job Amelia !!


Laila and Micah are deciding what to draw on their pumpkin.  


Megan, Chelsey, and Katrina are all figuring out what to paint. 
Sarah will be carving.  


Emma is hard at work.  
Whoot!  


The noise in the fellowship hall was GREAT : ) 

Laura painting and Isaac watching : ) 


Looking goooooodddd
Very creative.  


Janelle is almost done.  


oh, a self-portrait Scott? 
Bahahaha 


Good job Luke : ) 
You finally came back to carve : ) 


Mike doing the finer work for the girls


Nice colours Katrina.  





The finished pumpkins.  
Great work.  


Lunch is now served.  


As our judges judged. 
I was not allowed to judge as my daughters were carving and painting : ) 
Apparently, I'm biased.  
Noooooooooooo  : )

So Louise's boys judged for us. 
Sam picked out three carved pumpkins (1st Category) and we had a hoot listening to him describe why he did so. 
And the winner was....


The middle one (Liam). 
A jail cell with another pumpkin inside.  


The next category was drawing and this one won.  
Emma......hmmmmmmm


Soooooo,  Emma and Liam won, and our final Category was the participation category.  
Louise asked people to pick a number between 1 and 50.  
And guess who came Closest? 
Child number 3 : ) 
Drew (not in the picture). hmmmmmmmm
Conspiracy?????? 

All in all we had a great time
Thanks to all those who came out. 
 
It was a Whhhhoooooooottttttt !! :) 

 


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