Carving Pumpkins!

By Monday night, after our mega-shopping trip on Saturday, the Steelers game on Sunday (during which we entertained 6 or 7 guests), the Halloween party on Sunday, and Casey's dance class earlier that day, I was exhausted. But Josh got a second wind and took over the hardest part of the always highly anticipated pumpkin carving, which is scraping out the insides of the pumpkin. Casey sat on the table and scooped out large clumps of pumpkin innards with her bare hands. She kept calling it "gloop." Which is exactly what it is! Jacob got really upset because he was trying to make his pumpkin look like the face of Ang, from Avatar. When he couldn't get it exactly right he let Josh help out a bit. But the design is definitely Jacob's!



Casey chose a small pumpkin that was exceedingly difficult to carve. For some reason this pumpkin's rind was like concrete!


Josh arranged the pumpkins on the front porch and lit them with candles.


Jacob's pumpkin is on the far left (the one with the arrow in his head), next is Josh's ghoulish grin; next is "C" for Casey, and finally there is my pumpkin, the die-hard Democrat Donkey. I just can't help getting political with my pumpkins!