Carving Pumpkins

Carving Pumpkins, Carving Pumpkins
Let's carve the eyes and nose.
Now let's make a mouth with big teeth,

And put in a light that glows.

While I went out to increase our pumpkin carving tools, Brian had the kids start cleaning out the pumpkins. If you look closely at the first picture, you might ask the same thing I did upon seeing the staged photo courtesy of Dad. So yes. Jacob has a very large knife in his hand!

Leah and Jacob were all about getting elbow deep in the pumpkin guts and Peter wanted nothing to do with it. When I returned with some awesome new tools, the pumpkins were ready to carve. Way to go Dad! The tools I got were a Super Pumpkin Scraper and a motorized carving tool (pictured below), all aimed at decreasing our time spent carving the many pumpkins we currently have and will have over the years.

Jacob and Peter both designed their Jack O'Lantern faces on their own using our Pumpkin Pattern CD program. Then mommy and daddy carved them up using our new tools. For the smaller pumpkins, Leah and Peter decided to paint those instead.

It was a lot of fun! We definitely spent a lot less time and stress carving all of our pumpkins the way we wanted, while supervising three small kids, due to patience teamwork, and better tools!