Pumpkin Carving

Now that the kids are getting a little older we did a few more Halloween projects this year besides the traditional pumpkin carving. They have had so much fun with all the Halloween decorations around. Kate used to just scream and cry anytime we'd show her a mask or pretty much anything Halloween-y. But this year she just laughs at all of it and tells us that "the silly and scary things are just for Halloween so that makes them fun." We are sure glad for her change in perspective.

Joe and the kids drew a huge pumpkin sign and colored it and hung on the wall in our family room. We also made a giant black spider out of trash bags and hung it from the ceiling of our front porch.

We've gotten our pumpkin carving tradition down to an art now. First we saran wrap the kitchen table. Then we let Daddy hollow out the pumpkins. This year Sammy kept looking at the pumpkin guts and saying, "Eeeewwwwww!"

Then we let the kids draw the faces on their pumpkins and Daddy carves it out just like they drew them.

Then we put the candles inside and...


take a picture all together with our newly carved pumpkins.