carving pumpkins

Well we decided to carve our pumpkins last night. I actually love carving pumpkins. I think it is really fun and I always look forward to doing it every year. But with the amount of pumpkin patches we went to this year, and the amount of children we have, we had a lot of pumpkins to carve, as you can tell from the first picture there! Or I should say I had a lot of pumpkins to carve. Dustin HATES carving pumpkins. He HATES cleaning them out. He HATES the smell and he NEVER wants to carve them. So it falls to me to make our pumpkins into scary jack-o-lantens. I made the girls clean out their own pumpkins and I told them that who ever could get their pumpkin cleaned out first would get to carve it first. Can you tell who won? Josey had NO problem. Maddy on the other hand....well just look at her face. I ended up cleaning it out. Lilly stayed put on her nice comfy daddy chair. Dustin's whole look here pretty much defines his feelings towards carving pumpkins. And you can see our finished jack-o-lanterns just waiting to spook all the trick-or-treaters. The girls are so excited for Halloween.

I have to add that if you haven't carved your pumpkins yet go to the store and get this little pumpkin carving tool. It is AMAZING! And actually quite fun! It is this little electric saw thing that makes carving pumpkin SOOOOOOOO much easier. My hand wasn't sore and I carved FIVE pumpkins. I will never carve without it. GO GET IT!