Pumkin Carving!!!

One tradition that I absolutely love is carving pumpkins!!! Mike is a stick in the mud and says he would rather paint them. I say carving is way more fun!!!

Our favorite place to buy our pumpkins at at one of our neighbors' .... The Sutton's. Their 3 kids (ages 11, 9 & 7) help plant and take care of a huge pumpkin garden. Then they harvest all the pumpkins, gourds and squash. They always have the coolest set up for their pumpkin stand. Plus they are the cutest salesmen ever!




After Traven and Kacen finished their homework, the three of us went to pick out everybody's pumpkins.






It's a good thing the boys came with me. Their muscles came in handy when they loaded all the pumpkins in the trunk of our car.







Carving the pumpkin's was a lot of fun. Every time Kacen reached his hand into his pumpkin he would say, "Ewww! That feels sick!" But he and Traven thoroughly enjoyed the 'gross' part of the pumpkins.











Blaiklee and Kenzie just could not get over the 'gross' part of the pumpkins. So, I actually hollowed out both of the girls' pumpkins. They had fun with the carving part until Blaiklee had to take out some of her carvings from the inside of her pumpkin. She said it was disgusting, so Kenzie volunteered to help her sister out.

But as we all know, Kenzie is a bit of a tease, and she purposely dropped some of the pumpkin guts onto Blaiklee's leg. Well Blaiklee screamed and we were all laughing at her. Blaiklee was not happy at all. So to make Blaiklee feel better I grounded Kenzie for a full 5 minutes (I am so mean! lol) Shhh... don't tell Blaiklee, but it was so funny :)

The highlight of our night was taking two of our carved pumpkins over to our neighbors, Irma and Blanche. They are two widows that live right by us. They are so nice and our kids love to visit them. And they absolutely loved the carved pumpkins!!