Pumpkin Carving

Our pumpkins are carved and we are ready for Halloween :)

We had our annual pumpkin carving "contest" last night. We take this seriously! :) It went a little something like this ...

1. David and I picked out our pumpkin face templates online,
2. Transposed them onto our selected pumpkins, and
3. Spent the next hour or so carving away as carefully and perfectly as we could.
4. Then we admired our hard work, and positioned our pumpkins on the front porch.



And, while Mommy and Daddy were busy at work, Ryan was happily painting his baby pumpkin {and the concrete}.

He also gladly offered his assistance to Mommy, but Daddy kept his masterpiece out of Ryan's reach {cheating if you ask me!}

Looking at all the pumpkin gunk -- yuck!

Helping Mommy clean the pumpkin out :)

All done!

I do have to give David credit this year though. He really stepped up his game and his pumpkin turned out great! He is our 2010 pumpkin carving contest winner :)

Left - Melissa, Right - David

Looking eye-to-eye with the pumpkin.

Sleeping with the pumpkins :) Silly boy!

On another note, I got some great pictures of Ryan posing with our finished pumpkins thanks to some good old bribery. I told him that if he sat down next to the pumpkins and smiled, he could have a sucker, and it actually worked!!! I was shocked and thrilled. The boy does love suckers though. Hopefully I can get similar results for our Christmas card photo :)