Pumpkin Carving

So we forgot about buying pumpkins until the last minute this year. I guess it's what happens when the kids get older and they don't pester me every two minutes about when we're going to carve them. We had to take what we could find, which wasn't much. The pumpkins were all going a little soft and were larger than we wanted, but beggars can't be choosers, right? The kids still had fun...

Jeff did not plan on doing a pumpkin this year, but then remembered that he had a teacher once who brought a carved one in to school and lit it when we was in first or second grade. He remembered how awesome it was to see it all lit up in his class and how excited he got over it. He decided he wanted to be able to do the same thing for the kids in his class, so he picked a pattern (which was VERY hard) and away he went.

This year the kids did not need any help scraping out the insides (until Brooke got rashy on her arms at the end, then I finished scraping it for her), transferring the patterns over, or carving. I got to relax while they were all busy... it was great!

Jeff's was a haunted house, Brooke's was a silly face, and Kara's was a mummy. I think they all turned out really cool!

Here are some pictures of the scraping, carving, finished pieces before being lit up, and the finished pieces all lit up: