Gardening

We got pumpkins!!! I'm so excited about the pumpkins this year. We actually picked up some seeds at walmart for $1.29 or something and planted them this spring. About six months later about a dozen big pumpkins grew:) Some were pretty big and some kind of weird shaped, but I guess you never know what your gonna get. What's weird to me is it almost takes as long to grow a big pumpkin as it does to have a baby! The kids got a big kick out of it too. We grew watermelons and cantelopes in the same area and they did good this year too. My tomatoes and green beans were just crappy this year though:( Steve wanted to plant carrots and onions this year and they are always a bother! The carrots always taste like dirt and the onions never get that big, so they taste bitter. Steve hates onions so I never quite get why he always wants to plant them???? Men!!!
I love gardening more and more each year. This past weekend I totally bribed my kids to rake leaves:) We have a huge tree in our front yard and it has lost all of it's leaves already! I told the kids they could have a can of pop if all the leaves were cleaned up, it got done speedy quick! Then yesterday Steve mowed for (hopefully) the last time this year. Steven also took out this stupid-ugly bush I planted a long time ago. It's the one to the right of the big front window. Last week I trimmed the whole thing up thinking it might look better, but, well no luck there! I need ideas for this empty space, suggestions anyone?