For family home evening last Monday we decided it was time for the annual pumpkin carving. As usual we got started late and Kendall and I were in a hurry to get it done and over with and get the kids to bed. We did have fun, don't get me wrong, it was just late and the kids were a little grumpy and so were we.
Noah cleaning out his pumpkin guts. He really didn't want to get his hands dirty. We had him draw his own face since we knew he wouldn't be satisfied with anything we drew. Poor Kendall had to carve out the "scary" mouth which you will see below!
Kendall can't carve a pumpkin without getting the power tools out! It was pretty late and I guess it did make things go faster!
Emma wasn't to happy about getting the guts out of the pumpkin. She didn't remember past pumpkin carving events and was a little upset when we started to cut open her pumpkin. But we were finally able to convince her that this was how we did things and then she was happy. If you know Emma she wants everything to be "happy", so she got the happy faced pumpkin.
I am such a mean mom, but I get tired of doing all the gutting of the pumpkins every time. I really don't want my kids turning out like my brother Jeremiah, who every year makes someone else do all the dirty work!
So here is our goofy pumpkin, scary pumpkin and of course our happy pumpkin.
Noah cleaning out his pumpkin guts. He really didn't want to get his hands dirty. We had him draw his own face since we knew he wouldn't be satisfied with anything we drew. Poor Kendall had to carve out the "scary" mouth which you will see below!
Kendall can't carve a pumpkin without getting the power tools out! It was pretty late and I guess it did make things go faster! 
Emma wasn't to happy about getting the guts out of the pumpkin. She didn't remember past pumpkin carving events and was a little upset when we started to cut open her pumpkin. But we were finally able to convince her that this was how we did things and then she was happy. If you know Emma she wants everything to be "happy", so she got the happy faced pumpkin.
I am such a mean mom, but I get tired of doing all the gutting of the pumpkins every time. I really don't want my kids turning out like my brother Jeremiah, who every year makes someone else do all the dirty work!
So here is our goofy pumpkin, scary pumpkin and of course our happy pumpkin.
2 comments:
Those look fun. We kind of cheated this year, because we also didn't want to be up late. So one night Trent cleaned them out, after the boys were in bed, and they carved the next night. It went much faster that way.
Wow, we have been so busy we did not get to pumpkin carving this year. McKayla got all upset on Halloween night because we didn't carve pumpkins. Oh well, there is always next year.
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