Our community had a pumpkin fest on Saturday. Free pumpkins for all residents, hayrides, rock climbing walls, bake sales, crafts, kettlecorn, barbeques, HawkQuest's eagles and owls, boutiques for pets, games for adults and kids, and lots of treats.

While Paul attended a party with his dad in Colorado Springs, Abby and I spent a couple of hours at the festival.

She wanted to wear her Halloween costume - a fairy. However, she was frightened of the costume's huge wings, so we did without.


Abby testing out pumpkins at the pumpkin patch, choosing her pumpkin based on how "sit-on-able" it was.


This was the pumpkin she finally chose; Hugging the chosen squash for a picture in front of a haystack.


HawkQuest brought several birds to educate the audience; Sage and Belle were the horses who took us on a bumpy ride through our neighborhood, to Abby's great delight.


After we ventured through all the booths and activity centers, Abby wanted to hit the playground and grab a drink.

At the end of the day, the one thing Abby remembered the most fondly about the pumpkin fest was the BIG puddle in the pumpkin patch where she got to "splash, splash, splash and got ALLLLL wet!"