Harvest Festival

The weekend before Halloween, the Sweds hosted their annual Harvest Party at their home in Blaine. This was the first year that Nick and I were in town to actually attend the event and we were thrilled!!!
Mindy made some delicious Chili for the crowd, then we dove into our pumpkins to carve our little hearts out. I am not a skilled pumpkin carver, but did discover that I am married to a grand artist (yeah...it's a bad photo....peter isn't even looking at the camera, but I only took two shots and here are both of them). After 45 minutes of attempting to capture the perfect photo on the Swed's porch, we did our best to clean the pumpkin off the ceilings (ok...maybe not actually on the ceilings, but it was a mess) and headed home. Eating, laughing, catching up with old friends (we miss you Peter!) and carving can really take it out of a person!