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Decorating Pumpkins - 2013 Edition

Every year since the year after we started dating, I took part of the Carpenter tradition of painting pumpkins. I remember back in 2004 when I did my first pumpkin painting and unlike the Carpenter family I have zero artistic skill, so needless to say I was both nervous and intimidated knowing that they were all super artistic. 

Needless to say ten years later we are keeping the tradition alive. Jenn and I had our whole Sunday planned out. We woke up at a reasonable time and headed to Strawberry Farms in Irvine to go pick up our pumpkin. Having never gone there we were amazed with how gigantic the place was. I mean truly enormous. We spent quite a bit of time searching for the "perfect pumpkin" and managed to stumble on three great ones. 

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