Carving Time!

Every year on the week of Halloween we always get together with my brothers and sister n law and nieces and nephew for pumpkin carving. We always eat dinner together, then go pick out our pumpkins and then carve them. We have been doing this for a long time, well going on 6 yrs now. This year was a little different but it was still a whole lot of fun! This year Dan, Joshua and I already had our pumpkin to carve that we brought from Nebraska, so my brother and sister n law picked theirs out on the way over. Also, my brother Chad was not able to be here because of his recent move to Dallas! :-( We had fun, but it didn't feel complete with him not being here. Joshua got in on the action just like last year except this time he wore gloves, why you ask; because everyone else was wearing them. This is how we go about pumpkin carving: The women take all the "guts" out of the pumpkins and scape them so they are clean and then the men carve them. I don't know why it is like this, but this is how it has been done so we have not changed it. Joshua wanted a smiley face so that is what Dan carved. At one point Missy was elbow deep in pumpkin goo and said "there are too many pumpkins and not enough help!" To which she then remembered that Chad was always here to help one of the girls out with their pumpkin. (Everyone was assigned a kid and a pumpkin). I thought that was funny! It all worked out and all the pumpkins were carved and everyone had a great time! I love family traditions and I am so happy that we have kept this one going!!!

Joshua with his pumpkin brought all the way from Nebraska!!

The set up! Yea, it's a whole process!



Cleaning out the pumpkins.

Joshua "stirring" his pumpkin.

The traditional picture

Jordan, Dylan and Kenzie's carved pumpkins!