Wednesday, November 16, 2011
It's no secret that the Lymans are big fans of the North Logan City Pumpkin Walk. I've been attending every year since it began (I was in high school), but the crowning visit was October 28, 1994, when James and I went to the Pumpkin Walk on our very first date! Say what you will--the Pumpkin Walk was a very romantic first date. The flickering lights of the Jack-o-Lanterns, the cold, twinkly stars overhead, 10,000 other people crowding us closer and closer together. . .yep, the Pumpkin Walk holds a special place in our hearts and it's firmly entrenched as a yearly tradition!
And this year was extra fun, too, because we actually helped with a display! Our Families Supporting Adoption chapter (of which we've been co-chairs for the past two years) did a scene and it was so much fun! The theme this year was "My Favorite Things," which worked out perfectly because . . .
And as over 50,000 people attend The Pumpkin Walk every year, we felt this would be a great opportunity to promote a positive view of adoption in our community. (There are still so many misconceptions out there about adoption and it drives me crazy, but that's another subject for another day.) Anyway, our committee talked back and forth about what to do for our scene--the original idea was to do a Dinosaur Train scene, since Dinosaur Train has an adoption theme with Buddy the T-Rex being adopted into the Pteranadon family. But then my friend Tabitha, who graciously headed up this whole Pumpkin Walk undertaking, came up with the idea to do a scene from Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends, which apparently is about a spider family who also adopted some other bugs. And since we thought bugs would be easier to create out of pumpkins than dinosaurs, we went with her fabulous idea!
We all met at Devanie and Dorian's house to paint the pumpkins, which was a lot of work but we had a great turnout so that really helped move things along quickly!
James was the "Eyelash Man." I know that doesn't sound as manly as say, "Superman" but believe me, his eyelash making skills were very impressive. Maybe he can be "Spiderman" since the eyelashes were for spiders (albeit spiders made of pumpkins).
Painting the backdrop:
And I have to insert, here, that MAJOR PROPS go to to Tabitha. She worked so hard to organize everything about our scene, from conceptualizing the idea to getting the pumpkins to organizing everyone's efforts to setting up. Tabitha, you're wonderful! And this is the final result:
And some of the cute little characters. Please note the eyelashes, a la James. Thank
you.
We loved our scene so much, we went to the Pumpkin Walk THREE times! Twice at night with friends, and once in the day:
Ta-da! Our first doing-a-scene Pumpkin Walk experience. I think we'll do it every year--it was so much fun! Here are just a few more of our favorite scenes.
Bethany's favorite scene was "Plants vs. Zombies," since she loves playing that game on Daddy's phone. (The object of the game is to stop the hoards of zombies coming toward your home by strategically using plants to fight them off before the zombies eat your brains. All right, so it doesn't sound that uplifting to hear it described that way. But truly, it's a fun game in a bizarre kind of way!)
Anyway, the zombies:
The weapons (Bethany could tell you exactly what each weapon does):
The sunflowers and lawnmowers--the last line of defense!
We also really, really liked our friend Becky's display of Tangled!
And these Bambi and Angry Birds scenes:
Yup, we love the Pumpkin Walk around here! And it wasn't even that cold this year--another plus! Happy 17th anniversary of our first date, James!
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