Pumpkins, Pumpkins Everywhere!! Thanksgiving traditions!

This weekend is Canadian Thanksgiving and our family is in full fall fun mode. The fall is one of our favourite times of the year. The temperature is great and the changing of the leaves is always beautiful. October also brings Thanksgiving and Halloween which are two holidays that our family enjoy the most. It is also my daughter’s birthday this week and she is a huge Halloween lover. You know the fall has arrived at our house when you see the outside of our house start to change.

Yesterday, we jumped into full fall mode and decided to head out to the find the perfect decor to spruce up our house for the season. This started with a trip to the Pumpkin Patch. Well, not so much the patch but just beside it where all the pumpkins have been organized for people to seek out that perfect pumpkin. You know the one I am talking about. The pumpkin that has the perfect size and shapes for carving out fun designs and Jack-o-lanterns.

There are pumpkins of all shapes and sizes there which is great because the perfect pumpkin is different for everyone. As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Some like the perfectly round ones while others like them to be tall. This was the first year that we saw the white pumpkins and the kids were excited to see them.

They even had pumpkins that were too big for me to even lift. These were so cool and would have looked amazing in front of the house. I seriously considered buying one of these 100 plus pound pumpkins but thought better of it when I looked ahead to the cleanup and disposal time.

The owners of the market made the pumpkin search extra fun with the inclusion of some special items along the way. You would get the impression that there had been a pumpkin tragedy as the perfect rows and piles of pumpkins were being created.

We also explored the veggie market and about ourselves some amazing fresh vegetables. I was even more intrigued by some of the strange and interesting types of squash. Some of them I wanted to buy just because of how cool they looked.

One of my favourite purchases yesterday was the gourds that now decorate our kitchen table. I have always enjoyed the look of these during the fall season. Especially the decorative corn.

Finally, we picked up our favourite fall decoration. Mums are a fall staple in front of our house and we are big fans of the tri-coloured pots. Costco sells the most amazing mums every year and so we ventured into the nightmare that is Costco on Saturday to acquire the flowers that we so adore. We couldn't be more pleased.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends. I hope you have a wonderful weekend and holiday with your families.