Carving Pumpkins

The kids had a blast carving pumpkins this year. We were lucky and were able to grow the pumpkins in the garden, so there were 'big' decisions about which one each of them would get. Jenna chose the 'baby' pumpkin, while Andrew chose one of the bigger ones.

Jenna wasn't very impressed with cleaning the pumpkins out, and opted to have Andrew & Bruce do that for her. She loved that I gave her a marker to draw a face on the pumpkin tho.....he was a very marked up pumpkin by the time she was done with him! Side note - look she let me put a pony tail in her hair!!! She even kept it in for the rest of night - amazing, but apparently it was a fluke since she hasn't let me put anything other than barrettes in her hair since.

Andrew seemed to enjoy getting all slimy taking the 'guts' out of the pumpkins, and did a really good job cleaning them out. He insisted he carve his own pumpkin this year (we did help a little), so I was glad we had some safety knives on hand. He did a good job carving, although after we thought we were done, he decided to carve a big chunk out of the back of the pumpkin, which we weren't sure what it was supposed to be (that's why you can see thru the nose on his pumpkin).

The kids and the finished pumpkins

Almost spooky :-)

Out on the front porch with the pumpkins....Andrew was trying to hide behind them.