Annual Pumpkin Carving

 

Pizza & Football

 

Followed by pumpkin carving

The boys drew up their design on paper - Ethan's (left) and Gavin's (right) and I made it happen.

Brian and I swaped jobs this year - he baked the seeds & I carved.  It works out better that way!

Belated Pumpkins Carving

So with all the busyness this year, we totally forgot to carve our pumpkins before Halloween.  So here we are, two days later.  We got a system down: the boys get all the yucky stuff out, I hand draw the designs and Brian carves.  But even that it's kind of a lot of work (for us) and I'm wondering if we should continue this tradition next year.  I did decide to nix the whole baking the pumpkin seeds thing because that is a lot of work as well.  Plus, I've burnt them the past two years and they ended up in the garbage can anyway...

 

Left: Ethan's dog (that looks more like a lion), Right: Gavin's Avenger

Pumpkin Carving

Once again, we didn't carve pumpkins last year let alone buy one and Ethan was pretty upset about it.  So, this year we MUST carve pumpkins and bake the seeds.  Apparently, my husband isn't art-sy and found this whole thing somewhat stressful so I decided to pitch in.  The boys got to clean out the inside (Gavin wasn't a fan of the slime), I free handed the design while he carved.  It worked out great!  Good team work family!

 

 

 

Looks pretty awesome!

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Look at what Gavin made at preschool today!