Carving Pumpkins

Scooping the seeds! Left to Right: Jazmyn, Ellie, Anna, and Jonathan

We had a great weekend together. The kids and I went and picked out pumpkins so they could get busy designing them. Jonathan and Anna worked together and came up with a face for their pumpkin. Jazmyn said she wanted a "happy pumpkin" so Ellie and her put a smiley face on theirs. Here they are cleaning out their pumpkin...."YUCKY" as Jazzy said many times!

Ellie started on Saturday carving her pumpkin and having a great time doing it. I was really impressed with her pumpkin as it was coming along so well.

However, on Sunday when we were working to finish the pumpkins she pushed to hard and caved in her pumpkin's face....OOPS!! She wasn't very happy (as you can see), but with great Perseverance she followed through and began carving on the other side! This time it turned out PERFECT!

Jonathan was just thrilled that this year we let THEM do all of the work. It is not easy carving a pumpkin. I was just as thrilled as he was to NOT be doing all the work. LOL. He had a great time and his pumpkin turned out very unique! ....And they had all of their fingers when we were finished. I never have decided for sure if it was really brave of me or just plain ignorant of me to let them control the knife. Trust me though, we did give them fairly small and somewhat dull knives for this first year!

The end results were really good. Here are the pumpkins on their first night all lit up. The kids had already gone home so they haven't gotten to see them shining yet. (I hope you will enjoy seeing them on here though guys! Post something and let me know you have seen them!). The pumpkin on the left is Ellie and Jazmyn's and the one on the right with the star eyes is Jonathan and Anna's. Can you tell on Ellie's that you can see straight through it???LOL!! They really did a great job though! Daddy and Jazmyn on the pumpkin's first night!
Jazmyn and Anna pretty much rode their bikes while the older two did all the work, but they are just as proud of the way their pumpkins turned out! Jazmyn said "her pumpkin" is perfect!