Pumpkin Carving 2010

We gathered up our pumpkins (three from the garden and two store bought) to carve them for our FHE activity. The kids were all excited, more for the finished product than for the actual gooey, scraping work that makes Merritt gag every year. I like cleaning out the pumpkins...it's sort of satisfying to me for some reason. Anyhoo, they got their hands dirty, which is all part of the fun, and designed their own faces. The pumpkins turned into very fine jack-o-lanterns. I love Halloween!



We figured it was a bit too much work to carve 5 pumpkins at once, so we focused on the kids' masterpieces and then worked on ours after they all went to bed. It turned into a fun, improptu date. I made a vampire jack-o-lantern while Chad got super creative and carved his to read, "Trick or Treat."

Happy Halloween!!