John Barenie scoops out a pumpkin that will have a Fred Flintstone carving at his parents' home on Miller Street in Griffith, Ind. Friday October 26, 2012. The Barenie family has been creating giant pumpkins scenes since 1999. The pumpkins, with this year's theme of the Flintstones, will be lit in the evenings Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and until they last. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

John Barenie uses a hoe to carve out a huge 1,293-pound pumpkin bearing Fred Flintstone at the Barenie home on Miller Street in Griffith, Ind. Friday October 26, 2012. The Barenie family has been creating giant pumpkins scenes since 1999. The pumpkins will be lit in the evenings Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and until they last. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

A flintstone quarry backdrop is propped up as Lewis Belcher rearranges a pumpkin with a crab lawn mower drawn on in the garage of the Barenie home on Miller Street where more pumpkins await carving in Griffith, Ind. Friday October 26, 2012. The Barenie family has been creating giant pumpkins scenes since 1999. The pumpkins will be lit in the evenings Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and until they last. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Terry McEathron (far left) and Chris Hoffman marvel at the carving of giant pumpkins at the Barenie home on Miller Street in Griffith, Ind. Friday October 26, 2012. McEathron and Hoffman were making deliveries for Mariah Meats when they had to stop for a closer look. The Barenie family has been creating giant pumpkins scenes since 1999. The pumpkins will be lit in the evenings Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and until they last. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

A pumpkin boasts its size, 1,233 pounds, at the Barenie home on Miller Street in Griffith, Ind. Friday October 26, 2012. The Barenie family has been creating giant pumpkins scenes since 1999. The pumpkins, with this year's them of the Flintstones, will be lit in the evenings Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and until they last. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Claire Barenie carves Fred Flintstone (left) while Lorrainne Hageman carves Bam Bam at the Barenie home on Miller Street in Griffith, Ind. Friday October 26, 2012. The Barenie family has been creating giant pumpkins scenes since 1999. The pumpkins will be lit in the evenings Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and until they last. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

John Barenie (right) gives Paul Weber of Winfield a seed packet while Weber visits the carving at the Barenie home on Miller Street in Griffith, Ind. Friday October 26, 2012. The Barenie family has been creating giant pumpkins scenes since 1999. The pumpkins, in the Flintstones theme, will be lit in the evenings Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and until they last. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media