Pumpkin Theif

October 16th 2013

(Playing catch up here)

We woke up to one of the kid's pumkin's being stolen.

Lanie noticed it as we were leaving to take her to school.

She was so broken hearted and upset that it broke out hearts.

Both Lanie and Liam's pumpkins were pretty big.

Lanie had decorated hers the day we brought it home.

Liam's however hadn't been decorative yet,

so they took it.

In fact just the night before,

I dug out the decoration for his pumpkin to put on.

There were bicycle tire tracks in the yard.

We found the broken off stem in the rock bed,

and pumpkin residue on the bricks from where the pumpkin fell

when they picked it up by the stem.

Seriously,

WHO STEALS A KID'S PUMPKIN?!

WHO RIDES A BIKE TO STEAL A PUMPKIN?!

Anyhow.

After we dropped Lanie off at school,

we went to replace the stolen pumpkin.

We wanted her to come home and see it and be happy again.

She is so protective of Liam.

Atleast we're convincing ourselves of that

after her outpouring of emotions.

After replacing the stolen pumpkin with one slightly bigger,

we went on search for a HUGE fairy tale pumpkin.

Not only could we NOT find any fairy tale pumpkins,

but we couldn't find any HUGE pumpkins.

After giving up the search

and being irritated that someone would steal a pumpkin

and seeing Lanie so upset,

we had to come up with a way to keep this from happening again.

Justin drilled holes through the stems,

then chained them up to the post on the porch.

The stems hardened around the metal chain stuff

making it extremely to take them.

The only way would be to break off the stems.

We understand that if they really want to steal,

they will find a way.

But this is a detourant.

We noticed the neighborhood hoodlums heading up towards our porch

and pumpkins when they thought we weren't looking.

They saw the pumpkins locked up,

then turned around and walked away almost annoyed.

So far so good.

Check out what we did: