Namely pumpkin carving! We have a large spot set out in our yard that the previous owners used for a beautiful garden....well, I don't have a green thumb and my husband doesn't like vegitables so what else do you grow in a garden....PUMPKINS! So that's what we did. And we ended up with probably 20 pumpkins. Awesome because they are fun to carve, and quite spendy if you have to buy them to carve.
Peyton got to sit by and watch as we all dived in up to our elbows in pumpkin guts! What fun. We have a book with pattern ideas and tools we use to carve with.
Ben chose the 'AI face'. He says he messed up, but I can't see where.
I chose the spiders web and spider! I thought it turned out quite well!
And Chris chose the pirates cross bones. He did the carving all by himself! He felt bad that the teeth didn't turn out, but Ben helped him feel better by explain that pirates don't go to dentist so there teeth are rotten and probably look like that anyways.
We had a blast. It is a mess past time, but the memories that are made are priceless. And it's always fun to look back at how the kids grow. Last year, we got pumpins, but Chris couldn't really help, now he's doing it all by himself. Time flies when your having fun.
3 comments:
Looks awesome - I'm just going to set mine out without carving it - but yours are wonderful - thanks for the cute post!
how fun!! That is a great idea to grow your own pumpkins (they are getting SO expensive!) They all turned out SUPER cute! I always carve the traditional round eyes and triangle nose with like two teeth like I did in 3rd grade, ha ha! GOOD JOB!
so cute!! :)
I love your blog Kelly, its so cute and fun to catch up through these!!
Granted we have the football games too! :)
love you guys!!
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