Pumpkins for the Primary

Back in May when Mike and I were deciding what to plant in our garden, I was a little overwhelmed about the thought of getting a whole bunch of produce that I would have to can or freeze.  When I inventoried the storage room, it seemed like we didn't have very many empty mason jars.  So, I told Mike we were going to use much of our garden to plant pumpkins for the Primary kids since I am presently in the Primary presidency.  He was game for the idea, so we went ahead and planted pumpkins. . . lots of them. . . seven hills or something ridiculous like that.

Happily, the pumpkin vines produced quite well.  We harvested most of the potential jack-o-lanterns yesterday, and we were pleased to count 50 pumpkins.  I'd already gotten four of them and given them to the Primary president because she wanted to take them to a few less-active kids. So, that makes 54 pumpkins in total, just about the number of Primary kids we have.  How cool is that?!

I wish some of them were bigger, but hey, I'll
take what I can get.

Hoping that some of these get just a wee
bit more ripe in the next week. . .

Next Sunday is our first official practice for the Primary program, and I'm thinking I may reward "good practicers" with a free pumpkin.  Hmmm. . . you all know I'll just give them the pumpkins anyway, but that can just be our little secret, right?  Happy fall, everyone!!