Together We Can....

I know you were probably expecting to see Thanksgiving pictures....they are coming! But before I completely forgot about these photos I thought I would take a minute and play 'blog catch up!'

The theme for reflections this year was Together we can... Ty decided to take photos of us carving pumpkins so for his entry it was "Together we can carve pumpkins!"

He did a pretty good job taking all these photos:

We had the perfect weather to carve pumpkins outside! Usually we wait until the evening when it's dark, but it was nice doing it outside and it didn't mess up my kitchen!

Everyone had their own pumpkin! Caleb's was the smallest, perfect size for Caleb! Mara's was the middle size and Ty had the very biggest!

First we had to take out the seeds!

Usually I wash the seeds and bake them for a tasty treat! I was running out of time this year especially trying to get the reflections done! Maybe next year we will bake them up!

Now it's all clean inside!

Next the face. Ty designed his own face. I even let him do the carving and he did a fabulous job.

Mara and Caleb gave up near the end carving, but not Ty! He finished carving the other two pumpkins too!

Here's Ty's pumpkin all finished. I love all the triangle teeth!

Here's Mara's pumpkin. She wanted round eyes, triangle nose, and a smile! That's exactly what she got.

And ta-da! Three glowing pumpkins for all to see!

His photography couldn't only be a certain size. So Ty had to pick and choose which pictures he wanted to put on. Then he mounted them on orange and black paper.

Ty also wanted to color a picture and enter his drawing. For this picture he said "Together we can go camping." This picture (which is kind of hard to tell from a photo) has our tent, and a camp fire, and daddy with a bucket of water putting out the fire. We are all in the tent getting ready to go to sleep. The yellow you see in our tent is the tent light. There are trees and moths flying away.

Here he is! Ty Lewis ready to enter his reflections in for the first time! I'm proud of Ty for working so hard on his reflection entries. I wish him the best of luck!