Pumpkins!

A few years ago we carved our pumpkins pretty early in the season. The kids were anxious to do it, so I gave in. The pumpkin appeared to hold up pretty well... at least I thought. Halloween week came around and we decided it was time to light the pumpkin and put it outside. i opened it to put a candle in and was greeted with a pumpkin full of moldy cobwebs. Ever since I've forced the issue of waiting until Halloween week to carve.

This is the first year that the kids have been actively involved. It was pretty fun watching them get grossed out by pumpkin "guts." I do think that we'll wait to have 3 pumpkins until we trust at least one of them to use a knife. That was a lot of carving!

Here's a nice angle that shows exactly how wide I'm getting.

The finished products! From left to right: Lesley's, Kassy's, mostly Bella's (the little girls assisted in de-gutting)